Category Archives: Cognition

Digital Maps – Is what is mapped what is “really there”?

Posted on 07/11/2012 by

A flush of blog posts on on the rise of digital maps and apps for location  based services via smartphones and GPS devices lead via my readings of Actor-Network-Theory  (ANT) and beyond to wanderings in the realms of ontology and … Continue reading →

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Q&A: Finn Butler on wayfinding design

Posted on 19/05/2012 by

Investing in evidence based design is far from common –  retail business’ mantra that “the customer is always right” is not yet firmly entrenched in the design professions way of thinking – yet – but I am sure its coming … Continue reading →

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How Motherhood Changes the Brain

Posted on 17/05/2012 by

If you wonder what motherhood has to do with  cities, then think – well where did you come from and how happy were you with your childhood/family experience – many didn’t have one! I think understanding more of what makes … Continue reading →

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Facial Monitoring: The all-telling eye

Posted on 30/03/2012 by

Pervasive surveillance is now becoming extremely personalized – is there an infringement of our private space – are we even aware of all the body language we imply in a brief glance at  a piece of chocolate cake, a shiny … Continue reading →

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Sunni Brown’s visual persuasion – Doodling & Creativity

Posted on 13/02/2012 by

Being a user of mind-maps, fast sketches and doodles  the translation to mainstream use and the removal of the frustration people experience with drawing – you all know,  or are people who say “I can’t draw” this should open your … Continue reading →

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Invisible Fields

Posted on 26/01/2012 by

From Domus An interview from Barcelona by Ethel Baraona Pohl I  see this exhibition, which I will only be able to see by means of its representation in images from cyberspace, as a tangible sign of the distorted relationship we have the technologies which both bind … Continue reading →

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As brain pathways deteriorate, so does our memory

Posted on 23/05/2011 by

Memory loss with aging especially short term memory – the kind that makes us forget peoples names and that makes my 92 year old mom repeat her stories to us over and over, are common to us all as we get … Continue reading →

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Robert Irwin on the Mechanics of Experience

Posted on 19/04/2011 by

From The Dirt Robert Irwin was the keynote speaker at the Parsons conference, “Aftertaste 2011: Immaterial Environments,” this past weekend. His lecture, “On the Nature of Abstraction,” was a meditation on the “mechanics of experience.” Sitting on a simple stool with his … Continue reading →

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