The Tower & the Park

Examining the design of digital “public space” from the perspective of land use.


A talk based on Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks in a special issue of the Journal of Social Computing, “Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.”

Presented at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

First Mile Health

Exploring the interplay between health and the systems that shape everyday life. 

• Nature and Health: Florence Williams
• Food and Health: Christopher Gardner
• Movement and Health: Jim Sallis

• Culture and Health: Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
  

• Spirituality and Health: Paul Haller
• Wealth and Health: Jen Horonjeff
• Equity and Health: Nancy Roman
• Diversity and Health: Abraham Verghese 
• Systems Change and Health: Marshall Ganz

This was an IDEO project in partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Building H. Illustration by Loren Flaherty-Blackman.

The City’s Book of Play

Making democractic participation a part of a neighborhood’s social fabric.  

Project report and activity worksheets can be downloaded here.
This was an IDEO project in partnership with the City of San José Mayor’s Office of Tech & Innovation, Gehl, and the Knight Foundation.

A New Town Hall

Reimagining historic architecture to support democracy in the 21st century.

This project investigates democracy in the age of social media through the lens of the rural New Hampshire town hall. As a place of assembly, the architecture of the town hall has not evolved beyond its colonial meeting house origins to support the scale and speed at which people communicate today. What should the contemporary town hall—and the practice of everyday politics both online and offline—look like in a networked society?

Collaborators: Aimilios Davlantis Lo (fabrication), Hanna Kim (illustration), Mindy Seu (graphic design) 

Horizon

Collaging photographs of the ocean into a book of poems.

“Shifting the ‘Horizon’,” The Harvard Gazette.

“‘Postcards from the future’: Joanne K. Cheung envisions what design can reveal about our planet,” Harvard GSD News.

Exhibited at Harvard Global Health Institute’s Sustainability Showcase. Production support from the Harvard Visualization Lab and a Sustainability Grant from the Harvard Office for Sustainability.

Unbuilt

Materializing 200 crowdsourced designs that have never been built.

“Class Act,” Wallpaper.
“This Year’s Design Miami Pavilion Has Odd Looks—and Unexpected Creators,” Wired.
“The Most Interesting Projects From a Newly Inclusive Design Miami,” T: The New York Times Style Magazine.
“A Pavilion of Tiny Pink Buildings,” Azure.


Commissioned by Design Miami. Named Finalist in Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Award.

Collaborators: Jenny Shen, Steven Meyer, Yiliu Shen-Burke, Douglas Harsevoort

Filmballad of Mamadada

A feature-length biopic of a Dada artist made by playing a game of exquisite corpse with 50 people.

“Body Politic,” Artforum.
Trailer & Full List of Collaborators

Produced and directed Lily Benson and Cassandra Guan. Screenings include Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Athens Avant Garde Film Festival.

A Landscape By Any Other Name

Landscape as seen by a human and a computer.

Exhibited at Machine Experiences II: Art Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, Rainbow Unicorn, Berlin.

Vanishing Point

Self-portraits taken with a daguerreotype camera where the artist disappears.  

 

Exhibited at Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College. 

Users v. Muses

Musings on the century of the user.

Presented at Honoring All Expertise: Social Responsibility and Ethics in Tech, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.