Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Recently I was invited to participate in the Share Experiment, a development project by Yannick Assogba, an MIT media lab student. It was a week long processing programming experiment where the participants shared their code in effort to study how the code is used and how people work off of it. Here is the official information, before my thoughts on the project.
Share is an experiment in designing a networked programming tool for distributed communities of practice.
It is an IDE that automatically shares all the code you write with everyone else that is using Share, and keeps track of how that code is used. Thus allowing you to see the network that grows around code you contribute to, borrow from, or just happen to be interested in.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
It all started with a joint. Or more precisely the making of a joint as pertaining to architecture. Our professor gave this as a prompt to a classmate and I to make a small presentation about. They immediately then told us not to make it technical, so types of joints were right out. We interpreted this as using architecture to join different areas, such as a buildings site, context, and some other aspects of buildings. We took context as a jumping off point, and since both of us were from suburban areas, on opposite sides of the country, but none the less suburbia. After we made a few comments, and showed a few projects by other architects, most importantly New Suburbanism by LTL Architects.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Meet Mike, Mike is the reason I have gotten next to no sleep since Monday. Our assignments up to this point have been designed to teach us basic skills, such as spacial recognition, basic model making, and learning how to accurately represent something through drawing. We have been working on isometric projections, and perspective drawings in our drawing class.
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Posted By: Jordan Parsons
Well, its been 5 days short of a month that I came to Carnegie Mellon. After a week of orientation I started classes. So far we have done 7 projects with one due Monday, and one Wednesday. Our projects have ranged from making a 2×4 from rough cut lumber, to projecting planes through our studios. The plane project was very interesting. It was not super creative, but it was an interesting exercise because it made us think both about the outline of the studio, and the negative space that outline represented.
Anyway, I’m now working on a project involving 73 2×4s, and creating a volume with them that uses no adhesives or binders. Its actually quite interesting. I’ll be sure to update with more info and pictures. Also I plan to add some portfolio items up and just some random opinions.
September 1, 2009 at 7:42 pm | 
