{"id":884,"date":"2010-10-28T16:54:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=884"},"modified":"2010-10-28T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:54:20","slug":"vagabond-plans-for-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=884","title":{"rendered":"Plans \/ further thesis thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/?p=884\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-895\" title=\"vagabond_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/vagabond_4001.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently in post-CIID limbo, floating around Europe. I spent a couple of weeks in London, then a few days in France; now I&#8217;m in Turin, and next week I&#8217;ll be in Copenhagen for work, for two weeks. After that, your guess is as good as mine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to offer me either a couch or some work, do get in touch. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-898\" title=\"citytickets_process_400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/citytickets_process_4001.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As well as hunting for work (both short and longer term) I&#8217;ve been meaning to write up several aspects of my thesis project in more depth. I think I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/work\/citytickets\">described the basic idea<\/a> reasonably clearly, but there are a bunch of thoughts that are a little more abstract and a little more complex that came out of it that I&#8217;d like to explain and explore in more depth. I talked about some of these in my final exam presentation at CIID (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/mayonissen\/city-tickets-mayo-nissen-at-ciid\" target=\"_blank\">slideshare<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mayonissen.com\/downloads\/mayonissen_citytickets_pres.pdf\">pdf<\/a>, although both are without notes so YMMV), but I haven&#8217;t gotten them out in writing yet, and I&#8217;d like to, while it&#8217;s all still fresh in my mind.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does &#8220;public&#8221; object really mean &#8211; how City Tickets as a service takes parking meters and makes them relevant to all, not just drivers.<\/li>\n<li>Objects as the physical embodiment of a system or service &#8211; and why I didn&#8217;t design a better parking meter (but why somebody should).<\/li>\n<li>The craft of invisibility &#8211; designing as little as possible, for the biggest impact; using craft to make an idea disappear into obviousness. Real, not better.<\/li>\n<li>Creating something cultural as well as functional &#8211; where&#8217;s the poetry?<\/li>\n<li>Disciplinary lines, and why we shouldn&#8217;t care. Networked objects and urban computing falling between the cracks.<\/li>\n<li>The possible ecology around City Tickets &#8211; part of something bigger, not just parking meters. Other touchpoints (store receipts? SMS, mobile app, online); existing backend (eg, open 311).<\/li>\n<li>Why embedding City Tickets in the physical urban fabric is different to &#8216;just&#8217; an iPhone App.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hopefully by getting the themes out there will spur me on to actually writing them, while I (kind of) have the time to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m currently in post-CIID limbo, floating around Europe. I spent a couple of weeks in London, then a few days in France; now I&#8217;m in Turin, and next week I&#8217;ll be in Copenhagen for work, for two weeks. After that, your guess is as good as mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mayonissen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}