When I am visiting a city I like to walk. Especially ones that I never been before. Instead of taking a car and drive through the insane big cities transit, or get to the public transportation and submerge in a planned and boring…
Visiting Institute of Design in Chicago to experiment with touch surfaces
Under Stan Rucker supervision, Samia Pedraça and I visited the Institute of Design (IIT-ID) in Chicago for one week to assist in research projects. I developed the first iteration of our Tangible Workflows prototype experimenting with the recently acquired 55” multitouch…
Occupy: legitimacy to be on the public space
Since 2011 a series of protests against the schizophrenic logic of capitalism has been occurring around the world. The even has they own brand name: Occupy. The main idea is to occupy public places, mainly squares and plazas, in order…
Skyscraper
441 meters. 110 stories. Willis Tower is not the tallest building in the world but is the highest in the western continent. I went up to the 103 floor, where they have the Skydeck. You can see the entire city from there.
Native Village
I definitely need to update my knowledge about native people. The other day I was told to draw a native village on a piece of paper. Here is the result: I made a mix of Brazilian Indians and native American people.…