An Uber Pool Ride as a Comedy of Errors
Uber pool is a service that allows you to share a ride with other people. It is convenient because it reduces the amount of cars on the streets, saves gas, and ...
Category: urban
Sao Paulo Raw: Notes for a Video Art Installation
I remember Sao Paulo public space as an organized chaos, loud and wild. Full of density and motion, it is a space of noise and cacophony, of motors and steps, o...
Santiago’s Street Dog Life Ecosystem
They appear everywhere in the city of Santiago. At corners, parks, restaurant entrances, sidewalks, subway stations, bus stops, and public squares. Street dogs ...
Bogota’s Ciclovia: An Experiment in Democratic Use of Public Space
Every Sunday part of Bogota’s transit network transforms into a non-motor vehicle system. Instead of cars and buses, more than 120 kilometers of streets a...
Youth-Driven Indie Innovation
A couple of weeks ago we launched the multimedia website for Doing Innovation, a collaborative project I have been working with, that intends to understand and ...
One More Reason Not to Use Uber
I avoided using the transportation services of Uber for several years given the labor and privacy practices of the company. Earlier this summer, however, I deci...
Owls, Rocks, and Water Memories: Exploring Barton Creek
Following the pathway that water has carved out feels almost like going back in time. Or maybe going forward. The time in a dry riverbed feels different, ambigu...