http://twinestudios.com Design Strategy, Research, Storytelling Sat, 21 Feb 2009 21:55:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overview The title of this article is Story-Centered Design, but what it really concerns is taking an integrated, holistic approach to developing solutions, especially in collaborative problem solving. It is a truism to say we’re working in an increasingly collaborative age, and it may be overstating the case somewhat (people have ... http://twinestudios.com/2009/02/16/story-centered-design/ Yesterday I posted this video on the buckfifty.org website - to my mind it's a document of a time in Denver, the early 1990s, when the downtown area was still pretty deserted. My buddy Ray and I used to do performance art around town under the moniker of Two Significant ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/12/11/feed-the-kids/ I added a new post to buckfifty.org today that's pretty fascinating. It includes a slideshow of rejection letters from a scrapbook that jhh and I found in our basement back when we lived at 29th and Wyandot here in Highland. The author of the scrapbook was Mary E. Horlbeck, a writer ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/12/04/rejection-letters-1933-1937/ 1. Denver is a square, proud, prompt little place, surrounded by immensity. –Demas Barnes (Denver visitor, 1865) Denver is the unlikeliest of cities; there’s no port, no access to an ocean or a major river, nowhere to get to (easily) between here and there. Compared to other urban centers, it came late to ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/11/23/the-accidental-city/ I did a presentation at the Image, Space, Object conference in August on the topic of Story & Emergent Design – afterwards one of the participants came up and said they enjoyed the talk, and especially the part where I said that I have a tough time explaining to my ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/11/10/design-strategy-an-overview/ Our next door neighbors have been having some hard times. Jane, the mom, hurt herself six months or so ago by falling down some broken stairs, busted her tailbone. She's been in a lot of pain, can't walk too well, and has been out of work since then. She was ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/10/31/neighbors/ Officially, we're one week out from election day 2008. But, as Kirk Johnson wrote in this article for The New York Times, the process of voting is changing. Colorado voters are increasingly using early voting and vote by mail as options to going to the polling place on election ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/10/28/colorado-2008-voter-guide/ The city of Denver, led by the Denver Office of Cultural Affairs, did a great job of bringing world class art to town during the DNC through the Dialog:City program. While I would have liked to have seen some additional involvement from local artists, the program offered a thought-provoking combination ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/08/30/dnc-arts-roundup/ Thanks to our friend Jayne we got some tickets to the big press welcome party at Elitches (Denver's biggest amusement park, located in the Central Platte Valley near downtown). Thousands of people, music, local politicos, free beer and food. Most of our evening was spent watching adults playing midway games ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/08/25/dnc-saturday-elitches-welcome-party/ JHH and I went to opening night of Dialog:City on Thursday, and took some photos along the way. We started off the evening at the Robischon Gallery. Here's a shot of the gallery with DJ Spooky's Terra Nova prints in the background. Then we went on to the kickoff of the ... http://twinestudios.com/2008/08/23/dnc-opening-night-photos/