22
Jan
2011
compDesGrp
I knew there was something else that I’d been working on, but I forgot to put it into the first post back. It is basically a rip off of the London design computing community. It’s a meeting every 6 weeks or so to talk about what people have been up to, and what problems they’ve been running into. The talks are really short, with a lot of emphasis on discussion.
compDesGrp.org
We’ve had 3 sessions in Sydney, 1 in Melbourne and 1 in Auckland – with another one in each coming up in the very near future. I’ve been trying to film some of the sessions, so once I get around to doing the video editing I’ll post them all on the site.
20
Jan
2011
I’m back, I’ll try not to go away again.
In the dying months of my Major Study I pretty much stopped posting. I blame too much time alone in my shed!
As you might imagine, in 8 months quite a lot has happened, and I’ve had quite a lot of thoughts that need to be written down and explored. I’m going to make an effort to get some of them down here over the next few weeks. I’m now living in Sydney, working for BVN Architecture as their computational designer, although I have a wonderful amount of freedom to define what that actually means. I’ve been blogging some of the projects internally and I’ll try and get some of them publicly visible as soon as I can. In the meantime here’s a project that I’ve been working on with two computer scientists at the University of Sydney: http://blog.bvn-usyd.com/ . It has some pretty heavy duty posts in there, but even if you just look at the pictures you might well learn something! (I certainly am!)
18
Jun
2009
hand to mouth video
This is a five minute documentary video of first Hand to Mouth event. June 29th, 2008, Meat Market, Melbourne.
It was organised by Boo Chapple and Adele Varcoe, and when I get a bit longer to gush about how amazing it was, i’ll tell more. In the meantime, look here!
8
Jan
2009
mushroom carpark
I just found a piece of my work published on the VEIL website!
It’s a proposal to reuse multistory carparks as mushroom farms until they are demolished and replaced with something more usefull than inner city parking.
There is more detail on the VEIL site about the project.
“The Mushroom Carpark” – Ben Doherty
This exploration offers an innovative approach to redesigning car parking stations into transitionary resources which could be used for mushroom production. Ben suggests that in the short-term future there will be reduced car use due to high fuel prices and the subsequent uptake of car-sharing schemes and cycling. The ensuing reduction of car use will provide a new wasted space – car parks.
4
Dec
2008
Genetic algorithms lecture
Here are the slides from my talk at UTS last Thursday at the generative components university program show case, about genetic algorithms. The slides don’t make a huge amount of sense on their own, but if you were there, it might jog your memory.
The talk was filmed, and I’ve been promised that it’ll show up on Google video at some point in the future if you want to see what I have to say about blind darts playing pirates and their relevance to heuristic algorithms.
Acrobat butchered some of the text when I exported, but otherwise it’s all fine. There are 2 live demos that aren’t in there, but they’ll show up in the video and I’ll publish the code soon.