Video posted on May 15, 2015 (5–15–15) on YouTube. I am lucky enough to live a few blocks away from a relatively unknown Frank Lloyd Wright building, one I self-identified on a visit to Santa Cruz, California, years ago. As we now live nearby, to get there from our house…

Video published June 5, 2015, on YouTube. The New York Times obituary for Lebbeus Woods reads, as its final remark, this quote from the deceased: Architecture should be judged not only by the problems it solves, but by the problems it creates. Since my introduction to his work in the…

Video posted on June 30, 2015 on YouTube. ANARCHITECTURE is like a gateway drug; it is disorienting, exciting, beautiful and has the potential to change your life forever. That is, if you “get it.” Otherwise, it’s nothing special. Today, I am going to discuss Lebbeus Woods pivotal 1992 book, ANARCHITECTURE…

Recently, we at UCSC Grounds Services applied for the 2015 Innovation by Design “City Solutions” competition hosted by Fast Company magazine. A video was produced for the entry, located at https://vimeo.com/12677689. 9The following is what I submitted for our entry: Charged with a Zero Waste standard (95% landfill diversion) by…

Madness in testing the reliability of resource recovery load data at UC Santa Cruz  — Faced with the dramatically increasing diversion rates required for the UC Santa Cruz campus, Ground Services had a central issue with reducing landfill usage: we did not have the means to ascertain accurate, per client values for waste and recycling recovered from campus buildings. After months of research, Ground Services…

Collective self-design in direct political opposition to the impact of globalization — There is a theoretical void in terms of what follows today’s model of capitalism and international development, typically known as globalization. Contemporary design methods and cultural disposition rely upon a dominance-based, liberal method of reflection and discovery. …

Testing a Real-Time Resource-Fill Thing of the Internet — On Sunday, April 13, 2014, I gave a short talk on the trials and tribulations of creating what is most likely the first fully-operational Smart Dumpster. …