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Wayfinding Redundancy I

Tehran: which way is?
An arrow pointing the way to Mecca on the ceiling of a Tehran hotel room – a simple enough task for a GPS enabled mobile …



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29 Oct 2006

In: Tehran
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Literal Translation, In the Name of God

29 Oct 2006

In: Tehran, Today's Office
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Only a few days of the study left and a still a need to cover a lot a ground in different parts of the city …
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Missing, A Good Thing II

29 Oct 2006

In: Tehran, Today's Office
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A late walk through a rather sizeable local park in an effort to stretch my legs. By 10:30pm the remaining visitors are families checking out …
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Missing, A Good Thing I

29 Oct 2006

In: Tehran, Today's Office
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Our arrival in Tehran is certainly auspicious – 3 camera crews are here to greet the plane’s arrival. The focus of their attention? A trophy …
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Publicly Posted Death Notices

27 Oct 2006

In: Chalus, Cultural Norms
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Local death notices frequently posted around the small coastal town of Chalus, though not yet spotted in Tehran. To what extent does a sense of community …
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Uncondusive Spaces

22 Oct 2006

In: Research Methods, Tehran
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Ad-hoc interviews in a bowling alley seemed like a good idea at the time – after all the same location had worked well on a …
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Everyday Forensics

21 Oct 2006

In: Design Inspiration, Tehran
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The tools that enable us capture, review, edit and share, and the many different ways this moves towards real time, predictive. The implied authenticity of …
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Exceptions to the Rule

17 Oct 2006

In: Today's Office
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I figure that the lack of passengers accepting ‘chicken’ or ‘beef’ would be easy to explain on Egypt Air’s Cairo – Doha flight – its …
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