Memory In Uncertainty
A New Design Congress report ↗ exploring the techno-political implications of web archiving practices, focusing specifically on our contradictory impulses to both preserve web culture at scale, and also respect people's right to be forgotten. I contributed as a reviewer for the public release, which built out from several private reports produced by NDC. Also featured in the Neural Networks contributor archive ↗.
Related Projects
Recovering Urban Memory: Beijing
Chicago Studio Award (First Place), 2019An architectural intervention to redesign an abandoned farmer's market in the historic heart of Beijing's Baitasi District, resurrecting collective spaces such as farmers' markets and cafes that had slowly disappeared from the community fabric. I developed this proposal through the UIUC Plym Studio, exploring lost cultural practices and spaces in the district from the turn of the century through to the late modern period. The studio was led in collaboration with Dong Gong of Vector Architects and Professor Botund Bognar. See an interview about this project with Mayur Mistry.
"Patio Walk": Córdoba
A pair of web applications for a Dariah Udigish Working Group project on the intangible cultural heritage of Córdoba's communal patios. The first was a site-specific recording tool for field workers that automatically linked photos, texts, audio interviews, and surveys to their GPS locations in a GIS database. The second was an interactive map-based visualization that displayed all collected materials overlaid on the city's patios. As a member of the working group, I was responsible for the design and development of both the data collection and final visualization tools.
Córdoba Court
Córdoba Court is an innovative social game I designed and developed to foster community building. Modeled after the communal patios of Córdoba, Spain, the game invites players to cultivate a shared virtual environment, expressing their individuality by designing personalized totems from millions of possible combinations. The project serves as a social experiment in digital placemaking and community greening practices. A report is also available, which analyzes player content and observed behaviors.
ICT For Urban Heritage: Palermo
A co-design workshop in Palermo to envision the future of an abandoned warehouse, serving as the first field test for my dissertation research on propositional modeling. I designed two competing architectural proposals (conservative and radical) and used my AR platform, Wikar, to allow local stakeholders to view them on-site. By testing the proposals at different scales (a 1:500 map vs. 1:1 walkthroughs), the process surfaced the community's deep attachment to the site's recent, unwritten history as a local park. This visualization work made their tacit knowledge empirically grounded, and the feedback directly informed the final design, which preserved the area as a public plaza.