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So as to follow up on the on-going antics of the gamelan gang, for the past few months the MACPNE department has been generating research and development that encompasses the design of a user experience and deployment of a pavilion to house the Indonesian instrument know as the gamelan. This commission is to coincide with the grand re-opening of the Royal Festival Hall and renewal of London's ...

In 1982 Larry Dossey, an American physician, coined the term “time-sickness” to describe the obsessive belief that “time is getting away, that there isn’t enough of it, and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up”. Guy Claxton, a British psychologist, thinks acceleration is now second nature to us: “We have developed an inner psychology of speed, of saving time and maximising efficiency, which is getting ...

Whew. And that was a tough term… Lucky for me I am on break now and have some time to prepare for the next term. Part of the requirement of the 1st year of my MA is to participate in a professional internship. For the first time in the history of the course, Karin, Alex and I are applying as an R&D team collectively for our ...

Another week, another project, another learning log entry.  our guest tutors for the Zeitgiest Heist are Adam Levene, Benjamin Reichen and Man Somerlink.  also joining are the usual suspects, Tricia Austin, Kevin Flude and Sarah Featherstone. zeitgeist (n) : the spirit of the age; the taste, outlook, and spirit characteristic of a period; a phenomenon based on fate where something simultaneously happens everywhere at ...

here is an audio track that i slapped together for the crit on friday. it is simply a selection of anicdotal conversations that we encountered during the ethnography study element we conducted for a project mentioned in the previous post.

this week at school i am currently involved in a mandatory group project involving space intervention under the guise of social capital. the project involves several students from the MA courses of CSM school of design and school of interdisciplinary studies, including the Textile Futures MA students, Design Studies MA students, our colleagues at Industrial Design MA, MA Design by Project and of course, the MA Creative Practice ...

starting last night at 7pm and going on till 7am the next day (er... i suppose that would be today, at some point..), toronto held host to its first ever free sleepless evening of art and performance called Nuit Blanche. a first for this canadian capital of culture, toronto follows in the footsteps of great art cities such as paris, den hague, and london. this coordinated project is ...

on the 1st of october, austrians around the world will join in communion and vote in their new supreme overlord of the once great and prolific habsburg empire, which pretty much conquered the entire known universe (earth, heaven and all) by sending sons and daughters to various european empires to essentially sleep their way to the top of the euro-charts, in and around the 18th century. like how most ...