Some Unusual Suspects

In case you haven’t noticed, this space has become a lot more collaborative in the past two weeks. We’ve begun featuring some additional writers and cross posting some articles from other collaborative sites. Let me just give you a round up of who everyone is.

Shae Davidson
Shae has joined us as a web curator helping document creative synthesis, particularly with an eye to history, politics and environmental issues. Shae is a historian and poet who has served as a researcher and museum director. He completed a Ph.D. in American History in 2006, and has contributed to projects exploring ecological history, the relationship between politics and society, and industrial history. Shae is currently working on a set of essays examining the connection between history, perceptions of nature, and identity

Leonardo Bonanni
Leo is the author of hyperexperience, which we now aggregate, and is in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. He has a background in sculpture, architecture and industrial design as well as an MS from the Media Lab spent working on the kitchen of the future. He is interested in augmenting our interaction with the physical environment through innovative HCI, product and material design. You can find out a little more about Leo here.

Connor Dickie
Connor is a collaborative, scientist, artist and inventor. Connor studied at Queen’s University in Canada before coming to MIT’s Media Lab. Connor Dickie works as an experientialist designer, producer and scientist who explores the interplay between communication, identity and culture by combining his backgrounds in both Film and Computer Science to create novel interactive media devices. Connor has created devices such as televisions that pause when you are not looking, offices that dynamically attenuate privacy, and novel advertising platforms. Connor blogs occasionally here.

Forrest Diamond
Forrest is a high school student who is working with us over the summer. Forrest is spending a lot of his time writing articles that feature more populist examples of creative synthesis in order to get some experience in concept identification, synthesis and voice. He’s also been learning how to do some web programming and has been helping out on the Zeitgeist. To compliment our research interests Forrest is serving as a little case study on working with high school students in a high level research setting.

There might be a few more people along shortly, so say hi if you see them.