Remix the City: Comment — Cardboard Apartment on the Subway

Someone built a cardboard apartment on the subway!

Games from Nothing: Black and White Exercise #2 — Monster in the Village

For my second game I included a ‘monster’ and three ‘children’. The monster comes out at night and disappears in the day. At night it chases the children represented by circles and attempts to eat them. There is an element of…

Games from Nothing: Design Notes — Early vs Late Reset

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #3 — Pendulum Ride

Madeline Dupre This is a fairly simple demonstration of translation and rotation. I simply used those techniques to create a very simple representation of the theme-park “pendulum” style rides. The square, line, and circle all rotate in unison, while the…

Remix the City: Space HiJack — Our Secret Plan

Dear All, We’ll install our hijack on Monday, November 10th. Please update us on your part of the project by posting here to the class sketchbook, subject line: Space HiJack. *** Carboard Sofa

Remix the City: Sticker Project — Nespresso to the People!

The evolution of my sticker project was sort of wild. When I first decided to do a nespresso campaign i really hadn’t worked anything else out, except I knew I wanted to utilize humor because I am no artist, and the…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

How do we define spaces by function? Are spaces of transition not spaces of functionality? Are spaces not born out of tradition? Can spaces be redefined by a changing context? Are spaces stable? Are spaces in flux? How do we…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Pentagon

I had trouble deciding what I wanted to create after being given this prompt, because there were so many options. I decided to create “Pentagon,” a game in which a player used objects to move other objects. My game starts…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #2 — A Monstrous Narrative

When I first approached the prompt for this exercise, I was stumped as to how I could possibly represent all the different events of the narrative using only simple shapes and little color. After tinkering with the code for quite…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Symmetry

Symmetry is a grayscale game that incorporates four circles. Using sinusoidal movement they gradually move up and down the screen. As they move, the circles strobe, increasing and decreasing their radius. The goal is to tap the screen when the…

Remix the City: Comment — Formulary for a New Urbanism

The first issue that Chtcheglov addresses is the concept of being bored with the city: we know how to “read every promise in faces” and we have to “strain to discover the mysteries on sidewalk billboards”. Even when taking into…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

Is space a physical thing? In which all physical things are to be located? Are there areas where space doesn’t exist? Does space exist everywhere? What distinguishes different spaces? What determines where one space ends and another begins? Is authority…

Remix the City: Questions of Space

Is space a quantifiable thing, or simply a human construction? If it is an idea developed by people, do all people conceive of space in the same way? Even within a single individual is the definition of space malleable? For…

Happy Halloween

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Remix the City: Visual Code of Heimbold

What initially strikes me about the visual code of Heimbold are its colors, and the lack of coordination between them. The building’s main lobby, featuring the cafe, is the perfect example of this. The colors in Heimbold’s main lobby can…

Remix the City: Sticker Project — One Card, Many Cards Take Over

 Emma Wilder Sadowski: Sticker Project This project really began this summer, when I began really wondering how I was going to face the Armageddon of graduation– how my liberal arts degree could possibly suffice to pay back my student loans,…

Remix the City: Sticker Project — work buy consume die

The City and environments we live in play a huge part in the vision we have of ourselves, our work and interactions with others. When I say city I mean everything from outside spaces to indoors (stores etc). Signs are…

Remix the City: Thanks, Jason

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #2 — Monster Game

This is my monster game, The player is the monster which is represented with a big red circle. The player starts at the bottom of the screen and his goal is to reach the top while touching the white circles…

Games from Nothing: Black & White Exercise #1 — Up to the Circles

The game is called UP TO THE CIRCLES and the goal is to bring the square between those two circles which are doing a circular motion. On the bottom left player is able to see its score and to goal…