The Open Planning Project hosted New Technology for Participatory Planning – an ‘unconference’ last Friday, and what a grade A way to spend a grey day at the end of the week. The crowd was a pretty even split of techies and planners – the Regional Planning Association co-hosted. So the room was full of [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Turnstone at work’
November 4, 2009
Turnstone does Taxis (again!)
The team at Urban Omnibus shines The Architectural League limelight on Turnstone today: Rachel’s in-cab interview with Cassim Shepard, the blog’s editor, from back in the summer, is now available to read and hear, here. It’s one of many discussions about tech in taxis that we’ve engaged in over recent years, and our broadcast debut. [...]
October 23, 2009
Tell us: Which women maker/thinkers do you most rate?
Who are the women under 40* you most admire for doing cool stuff in tech-focused innovation and education, science, product and service design, bio- and medical research, gaming, digital publishing right now?
We’ll tell you why we’re asking soon. We’ve already lined up a shortlist, but if you’d like to volunteer your peers, your self or [...]
October 18, 2009
October Roundup: Measuring progress by foot
Over the last week, Turnstone tiptoed to the green roof above the Open Planning Project’s new office, just up Lafayette St, reminiscent of the lovely SCI-Arc-designed one in Downtown LA on top of the ex-Holiday Inn (now called ‘The Flats’); on the latest carless trip to LA this month, walked to the Petersen Automobile Museum [...]
October 18, 2009
Work, not rain, stops play
Strange of us to pick a cricketing phrase for this week’s headline. Occasionally these vestigial Brit phrases burp up from nowhere. Anyway, we’re back. Excuse the silence, we had a spiffy interaction design project to work on at all hours, in collaboration with our London friends at Maoworks, and now we’re back.
Hiding from the rain, [...]
September 27, 2009
Turnstone Turns Three!
This week, Turnstone turns three!
Thanks to clients, Constellation co-stars, friends, readers, referees and all who’ve kept Turnstone in flight.
We’ve survived trips in what felt like all 13000 NYC yellow cabs (more on that next week), countless rides on the full length of the 7 train line (more of what comes of that in 2010), a [...]
September 22, 2009
Hey, Mister Tech President
Turnstone went to listen in on a talk in SVA’s IxD series last week, by Scott Thomas, who is Former Design Director of Obama For America. We wrote up this review for TechPresident, one of the blogs hosted by the Personal Democracy Forum, just in time to plug Mr Thomas’ fancy-looking Designing Obama, a tome [...]
September 11, 2009
Good: Civics lessons for and from Silicon Valley
Turnstone’s first post about this week’s Gov2.0 Summit is now up on the Good Magazine web site. The second overview will be up there on Monday. Happy reading…
September 4, 2009
Highlights of upcoming SVA IxD public lecture series
This week, the inaugural class of the School of Visual Arts MFA in Interaction Design (IxD) met for their first day of orientation. Congratulations to the program Chair, Liz Danzico, on making it to Day 1. The IxD space looks fantastic, reminiscent of the CRD/Design Interactions studio at the Royal College of Art from our [...]
June 18, 2009
Not just a better “off” button for NYC cab media
Thanks to all the interaction designers, architects, New York cab riders who submitted ideas in response to Turnstone’s survey-by-tweet about Yellow Cab screens last week. And no, we didn’t quote the “Porn. Duh” response as a primary recommendation, but we did convey many sensible suggestions from respondents from Ideo, NYU Stern School of Business, ITP, [...]
