Ce projet, qui a remporté la troisième place du concours Storefront for Art and Architecture's Competition of Competitions en 2013, reflète notre situation politique actuelle. Dans notre scénario, Amazon, le plus grand détaillant au monde, obtient un bail de 99 ans sur les parcs municipaux de San Bernardino, une ville située dans l'Inland Empire, en Californie du Sud. Pour Amazon, qui a récemment ouvert un centre de distribution à San Bernardino, cette infrastructure municipale défaillante est un laboratoire permettant de tester de nouveaux marchés et de nouvelles méthodes de distribution. En contrepartie, la ville et ses citoyens se voient offrir des espaces récréatifs et publics bien entretenus et sécurisés, gérés par une nouvelle forme de gouvernement d'entreprise.
This 3rd place entry in the Storefront for Art and Architecture's Competition of Competitions from 2013 speaks to our current political situation. In our scenario, Amazon, the world's largest retailer, is given a 99 year lease on the city parks of San Bernardino, a city in Southern California's Inland Empire. For Amazon, who has recently opened a fulfillment center in San Bernardino, this failing civic infrastructure is a laboratory for testing new markets and methods of distribution; in exchange, the city and its citizens are offered well-maintained and secure recreational and public spaces run by a new form of corporate government.
Recently I have been working on a few small design projects, the most recent of which is a collaboration with Yeh Studio on a house rebuild in Altadena, California. Images to follow. Meanwhile here are some images from the archive, including experiments in analog-digital hybrids from the early 1990s. The only selection criterion is that I still like them.
Between 2005 and 2015 I worked on various projects that roughly fall under the category of robotics. These included the design and coding for the NETLab Toolkit, a hardware/software platform that allowed artists and designers to quickly assemble networks of sensors and other hardware. In several collaborations with designers and artists, I designed and wrote the navigation, sensing, and behaviour control systems for large installations.