After several months I run into the Fifth Dimension mobile again. This time, I couldn’t miss the chance of entering it and seeing on my own what was inside of a wandering and modified truck that functions as a bookstore of sci-fi books. Once inside I encountered a great selection of used and rare books…
Humanoid worm-monsters that change size while wrestling for the possession of a ball in a sort of Greco-Roman arena; angry jelly babies with puffy buddies that fight against each other in dangerous industrial landscapes; and muscular cats that strike poses at each other with grace and courage, are some of the innovative multiplayer games that…
The US postal system keeps surprising me. First, it was the two damaged XXL boxes that arrived to Cambridge ripped off and damaged two weeks I ago. More recently, it was the notification that another box I have sent as Media Mail had been destroyed and the contents of it were lost or in a…
One of my favorite words in the English language is “wonder.” I use it on my everyday conversations and on my design and research processes. Although I rarely reflect on the meaning and polysemy of the term, this week I have been thinking a lot about its semantic richness. A group discussion during the Berkman…
Earlier this week I moved to Boston after living almost six years in Austin. Last time I lived in Boston metropolitan area was in 2011 when I had a fantastic summer working as an intern at the Berkman Center and a resident at the Acetarium, in Somerville. Before, from 2006 to 2009, I had lived…
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 decided to use it for the first time. I was in downtown LA for a conference and was trying to meet with a friend who lives miles away in Playa…
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, ambiguous. As one walks the stream bed paved by millions of rocks, memories of water emerge in all the shapes, colors, and textures that conform the landscape. The…