RESEARCH | future local nyc

Exploring Gigamapping with IG Stories

I was invited to host a Systems Design workshop with Powrplnt, a forward-thinking non-profit committed to building digital literacy and a...

Teaching Systems Thinking Through Game Design

This summer Future Local was selected to participate in the Metabronx Technology Incubator. We were one of ten startup mentors working w...

Generating Visual Languages for Systems Thinking

Systems Thinking can get very meta very quickly. I began to research how Systems Thinking developed in the discipline of Linguistics and...

Virtually, technically still doing things..🤔🤯😷

As we search for clarity on how to plan, pivot, and make peace with COVID19 in our foreseeable, indefinite future, I am both perplexed an...

It's Spring Physics, baby!

Last week we convened in the hi-tech Sky-Room of our brand new building at 370 Jay Street to give 5-minute (and all-too-rushed) presentat...

A Visit to the Game Library

My 3D modeling experiment from last week sparked a bunch of ideas, yielded useful feedback and further questions about how to translate 2...

CATWOE's

The countdown to Thesis Defense/IDM Showcase begins, and I find myself at a crossroads. I need to make a lot of stuff, while deep-diving...

CARS & BEATS: Developing a hypothesis🔮📚💭♻️

if a=b and b=c, then a=c Video = X pictures/second (frames/sec) Picture = 1000 words Actions > words Words = time then...what? I want to ...

Gigamapping: coming up with compelling Problem Statements

Gigamapping is a Systems Design technique that is meant to visualize relationships, causality, and complexity from multiple perspectives ...

100 Lunar-Day Challenge

"The Self" Myself A Selfie, Self-Portrait a poet in a batting cage of ideas and obligations of abstract self-expression Rapid-fire non-li...

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