What looks like texture is actually quantitative data. Each filament, voxel, stratum — a data point, collected by an agent, accumulated into a tightly constrained form. This is one of many 3D models produced during Making Alike, a workshop exploring agent-based data research. Not designed to be but negotiated into existence.
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Running a workshop at Cornell this Monday — Making Alike. A group of us will use AI agents to generate research, then turn a second set of agents loose on the results to produce proposals for data physicalizations. The process isn't automated — it's negotiated. Participants intervene at each stage, shaping what the agents produce and deciding what to do with what comes back.
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Experience is never direct — it's always a synthesis. I'm discussing this idea in a lecture at Harvard this Wednesday. Physical sensation, technological mediation, and social constructs don't just shape what we experience — they construct the conditions under which experience is even possible. Design operates inside all three simultaneously. Designing within one while ignoring the others is selective agnosia.
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MINOR FRICTIONS | A film in five artifacts.
Formed from a cloud of process debris, data unrendered, instructions impenetrable, gestures abandoned —Minor Frictions is a material meditation on almosts.
Each artifact, a scatter of stubborn beginnings, a tangle of indecision, a silhouette mistaken for form, a structure grown awry, a conclusion with no climax. Printed in hesitation. Shot in fits and starts. Soundtracked in silence.
Coming Soon - In the Sky: Clouds Lent Out Use Discipline at Ewing Gallery, October 27-December 2, 2025
#MinorFrictions #ArtifactStudy #CreativeResidue #SpeculativeForms #PoeticObjects #DigitalDetritus #3Dprint #ObjectAdjacent #TechnicallyReal #PostProcess #AIAnimation
January 17th - February 26th | Cornell University
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Gallery - 1st Floor
Space for Others is an interdisciplinary design research studio combining human centered design, architecture, interior design and product design methodologies to explore the inclusive co-creation of space for others using both advanced design and fabrication technologies and intuitive approaches to shared making. The result of this investigation is a full-scale aggregate building system utilizing intuitive assembly grammars, tested through computational modeling and participatory making scenarios, and produced using digital fabrication techniques and collaborative design methods.
This exhibition invites anyone to assemble, disassemble and reassemble parts by yourself or with others to create a shared structure, evolving through participation. The project is open to all abilities and backgrounds. Share images of your work on instagram #makingspaceforothers
January 17th - February 26th | Cornell University
Martha Van Rensselaer Hall Gallery - 1st Floor
Space for Others is an interdisciplinary design research studio combining human centered design, architecture, interior design and product design methodologies to explore the inclusive co-creation of space for others using both advanced design and fabrication technologies and intuitive approaches to shared making. The result of this investigation is a full-scale aggregate building system utilizing intuitive assembly grammars, tested through computational modeling and participatory making scenarios, and produced using digital fabrication techniques and collaborative design methods.
This exhibition invites anyone to assemble, disassemble and reassemble parts by yourself or with others to create a shared structure, evolving through participation. The project is open to all abilities and backgrounds. Share images of your work on instagram #makingspaceforothers
One of several constructions created by participants in part one of the Civic Playground Project. The project focused on an intuitive system for collaborative making and invited anyone to take park in the process of making and remaking structures and forms together. @cornellaap . #civicplaygroundproject
Zaneta Hong a visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard’s GSD and Leighton Beaman Associate Professor of Practice at Cornell just wrapped up part one of the Civic Playground Project. Part one focused on intuitive building systems that invite others to #collaborate, #play, and feel the #vibes. Part two gets underway this fall with a series of lab experiments on the power of making together. #civicplaygroundproject
Part one of the Civic Playground Project wrapped up this spring with a set of collaborative building systems and presented as part of the Freedom of Expression exhibition at Cornell. @cornellaap . A catalogue of the project and exhibition is coming out soon. #civicplaygroundproject
Fabrication underway for the latest iteration of the Civic Playground Project. This is part D4, 16 of 73. Come by and build together / play together- Hartell Gallery, @cornellaap@cornelluniversity
