When you drive in this "melody road in Japan Wakayama and Hokkaido, you will hear a music from the road. According to Gizmo.Com; "The Melody Road will allow a car passing above it to play a simple tune, which is made audible by ridges on the road's surface. The pitch of the note created is … Read more
(taken from cube houses) One of my students wrote about houses that he saw while he was in Netherlands. According to Wikipedia, the houses were designed by Piet Blom in 1984. Is this a good design? I wish I can visit that place next time when I visit Netherlands.
A group of students in my class, Design and Innovation, began team blogging. They use it for their data collection and also sharing their reflections. I am very glad that they began doing it.
One of the most challenging things in life perhaps is seeing things from a different perspective. We always see things in the "correct" way and in an appropriate way. It usually is the same way that we always think about. One of the reasons that I like taking pictures is that it is a powerful … Read more
From May 19-22, I am taking 18 Fox MBA students to San Francisco area to visit a number of design studios. It is a part of a new course that called, Design & Innovation.
This is a short piece I wrote for the Positive Design Workshop. It is the based on the idea of overtone in music and tries to apply it in the context of digital city design. Download the PDF file.
I have written few short articles on design and plan on continuing to write them. Some of them have been published as a book chapter, and some of them are just written for workshops. The first one that I posting is written for Managing as Designing Dialogue series that we had between the Weatherhead School … Read more
I am in Monterrey, Mexico to attend Positive Design Workshop. One idea that resonates with me is “Design by all for all.”
I received my MacBook Air about a week ago and I am very happy with it. I no longer carry my old MacBook Pro. Instead, I carry my new MBA and iPod Touch. I am waiting for my portable hard disk that will go with it. 64GB just isn’t big enough. It is incredibly light. … Read more
Yesterday, there was a big news. That was not the Fed’s decision to cut the rate by .75 point. It was Apple’s quarterly report. After the report, the Apple’s stock price dived sharply. According to this analysis, this decline has to do with the zero growth in iPod sale. Unavoidable question then to ask is … Read more
Well, I made some changes on the design of the site. It is not perfect, but I will live with it for now.
Currently I am working with two master students to construct experimental teaching facilities in Second Life. We purchased an Island and we began building “physical” facilities. Discussing what we want to “build” there is very interesting as it feels almost as if we are engaging in some type of a real construction project. Well, perhaps … Read more