The NET website is part of a transmedia
publication that includes a book,
a poster, and web-enabled cell phones. The URLs in this section and in
the studio section correspond to titles of essays in the book and in many
cases have a direct connection to the book’s content.
words
A tool to explore the vocabulary of the new ecology of things.
things
Web-embedded footnotes to the printed essay create a bibliography of “thingness” and an introduction to the community of designers, technologists, artists, and scholars working on pervasive computing.
models
A discussion forum and conceptual framework for designers and technologists
who wish to make meaningful interactions in the info-saturated networked
world.
stages
Another set of web-embedded footnotes traces stages in the development of the new ecology of things.
users
A few simple questions about talking shoes and social networks.
program
The future of design through the eyes of the Graduate Media Design Program at Art Center College of Design.
pub
An overview of the transmedia publication and the relationship between
its parts.