This photo montage celebrates the 10 year anniversary of the Architecture and Design Museum of Los Angeles. The project was completed in just one one week, and was...

Animism refers to the belief that non-human entities are spiritual beings or at least embody some kind of life principle. In this summer research project sponsored...

What is the role of design in the reading and writing of electronic text? This was the large question that served as an umbrella over all of the individual...

Iterations This "robot" evolved from a set of experiments in which we dispensed individually packaged candy to Art Center students in small coin envelopes. The...

Morpheus: The Dream Influencer This device allows the user to choose what she wants to dream about and then watch it over her head until she drifts off to sleep....

For decades now, preparing and encouraging students to go to college has been a top priority of America’s higher educational institutions. But what they do...

If a computer can’t find your face, do you not have one? As the computational environments that surround us rapidly become more sophisticated will we continue...

Using a simple installation of a laptop, a photography light, a sheet for collecting email addresses, and a panda standee prop, we were able to get people to pose...

Through a system of sensors connected to a cube-shaped “brain” suspended above the user’s head, the existential calculator determines whether you are...

If you have 10 minutes, watch the full conversation: Or just see a short clip here: This computer conversation took place between two online chatterbots...

The Machine is an exploration that attempts to combine the interests of 4 designers into one seeing machine. The result is a hodgepodge of different effects that...

Something happened. One of them came in fast with a large iridescent glow around it. It moved forward, wanting to break through a barrier, but there was another one...

Each tree is equipped with a large, padded bowl embedded with sensors. The fruits are tagged individually. When one falls, the movement is detected by the bowl and...

In order to explore "Material Oddities from Speculative Futures" for this project, I began by choosing a general area of scientific that interests me: atmospheric...

This project stemmed from an exercise earlier in the class in which I changed the words on all of the buttons of a dishwasher to give a sinister context. I...

Getting to Know a Non-Place: Universal City Metro Station For the investigation of a non-place, I chose the Universal City Metro Station because it is a truly...