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Mar 24, 2020
Naming everything
It turns out that you can make 125m 2 syllable words in English. (If you really wanted to, I guess.)
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Mar 1, 2020
Words
WIP post that collects up some of the words that comp des people murder, and tries to put the world to rights.
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Feb 23, 2020
A Game About Possible Futures
A game to help you think about the future.
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Jan 12, 2020
Architecture: for love or money? Presidential address: Alex Gordon, 26 October 1971
I needed this doc, but all I could find was a dodgy scan. Now I can read it nicely.
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Jan 12, 2020
A more diverse 2020 reading list
I'm trying to plan 2020's reading to balance the diversity; can you help?
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Dec 30, 2019
How Buildings Learn: Magazine Architecture
Chapter 5 of How Buildings Learn: Magazine Architecture
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Dec 20, 2019
Quantifying my reading
How much do I read? How diverse is it?
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Dec 11, 2019
Ursula K. Le Guin: The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction
I often find myself referencing this essay, so I transcribed it.
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Oct 25, 2019
A Plane of Thrones
I presented a paper that we (mostly Ishaan) wrote. Here are the slides.
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Feb 9, 2019
Autonomous Wardrobe
Can you have storage as a service? A weird possible future.
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Feb 3, 2019
Obligatory comeback post
Who would have thought that an Arabian from 1500 years ago would motivate me to start writing again?
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Aug 20, 2017
Future Story
A messy story that tries to resolve some of my ideas
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Mar 2, 2017
A couple of things I know about my first years
Here's a few graphs about the first year computational design students.
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Feb 7, 2017
First year programming course at UNSW
I'm teaching first year computational design student python this semester. Here's some links to what I've got planned.
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Jul 26, 2016
Emotional labour as the future's main job
If making coffee gets totally automated, then serving coffee will be all about empathy. What would that world look like?
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