John Monberg
About: I teach courses in rhetoric, interaction design and user research. I have a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies and eight years of experience as a computer programmer/systems analyst.
Blog Posts
Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism
--Richard Longworth, an international correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, traveled for thousands of miles across the Midwest to understand how t...
City Lights from Space
--The photographs of Earth taken by the Apollo astronauts, which framed the Earth as a whole in the lonely context of space, helped foster an environ...
Women in the City
--"Women in the City" is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that began in February 2008.
Double One Way Communication
--Given the density of the city and advances in communication technology, it is unsurprising that the environment we live in is being saturated with ...
White Art
--White art, the use of bacon fat back, is one of the less well known urban communication media. This book is titled, White Art in the Meat Food Busi...
Massive Investment in Urban Communication
--Toronto is investing $1 billion dollars over the next twenty years in street furniture. Street furniture include a variety of things:We're talking...
Type City
--The Web has created fascinating new communication spaces, as passionate designers deploy specialized talents to delight and inspire new audiences. ...
Happy May 1
--Washington's Other Monuments
--Washington is both the public face of America and a city without Congressional representation. The formal landscape of public Washington is a spac...
Banksy was Here
--The British grafitti artist Bansky encapsulates all of the ironies associated with the postmodern city. He is both famous and anonymous, high cult...
Nomads at Last
--The Economist recently wrote an article about the impact of wireless communication and urban nomadism. The term nomad is deeply misleading. Despi...
Urban Abstract
--Skateboard graphics are one urban communication medium this blog has failed to adequately examine. Evan Hecox, previously known for his work for s...
Urban Abstract
--Skateboard graphics are one urban communication medium this blog has failed to adequately examine. Evan Hecox, previously known for his work for s...
Ghost Signs
--Ghost Signs is a website developed by Nicole Donohoe, MS candidate in Historic Preservation at the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. The site ...
The Endless City
--The Endless City, a new book edited by the London School of Economics' Ricky Burdett and design curator Deyan Sudjic, presents the work of more tha...
VISUALIZING GREEN: COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN AND APPEARANCE - Artek Culturelab
--Finnish industrial designer Pekka Kumpula offers three concepts developed at Artek Culturelab toVisualize Green through the design of product desig...
VISUALIZING GREEN: COMMUNICATING ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLINESS THROUGH PRODUCT DESIGN AND APPEARANCE - Artek Culturelab
--Finnish industrial designer Pekka Kumpula offers three concepts developed at Artek Culturelab toVisualize Green through the design of product desig...
Bricoleurbanism? Urban Fabric & Form Comparison
--The Bricoleurbanism blog recently posted a story about urban form that is important to urban communication. Jane Jacobs always emphasized the impo...
Urban Typography Workshop
--Mediamatic.net - On the Urban Typography workshopUrban Typography: what does your city say to you and what do you say to your city? This workshop e...
Shack/Slum Dwellers International
--The "digital divide" has been a topic of concern for more than a decade. But having a voice in decisions that matter in a global, information soci...
Nokia Morph Concept
--Cellphones have an obvious connection to urban communication networks via wireless connections. But increasingly objects are designed so that they...
IXDA Interaction 08
--The urban and the virtual are brought together more tightly everyday, creating the social spaces we now live in. Can the interactions among people...
Conceptions of the Desireable
--130 acres in Graz, Austria are being redeveloped--one of the last chunks of open space left to develop in Europe. Unhappy with top down approaches...
Learning from Copenhagen
--Since 1962, the city of Copenhagen has worked to improve the social life of the city. Now, after more than 40 years, the results of their planning ...
Web 2.0 and the City
--The factors and forces that combine information technology and urban form are infinitely complex--representing these connections requires a deep a...
Did Someone Say Participate?
--Markus Miessen & Shumon Basar have edited a new book aimed at mapping interdisciplinary spatial practices,What was once seen as the defensive prese...
Virtual Istanbul
--Creating a virtual city in Second Life is becoming increasingly popular, but advanced forms of information technology can serve to support urban ar...
Philips Design
--Immersive technologies are reaching a tipping point where buzz words like convergence, ubiquitous computing, and web 2.0 are transforming social pr...
Urban Computing
--Adam Greenfield and Mark Shepard, co-authors of Situated Technologies Pamphlet 1: Urban Computing and Its Discontents, together with Eric Paulos of...
How to See
--The book How to See, written in 1977 by George Nelson,has just been reisssued. One of the most important designers of the last century, George N...
2008 Smart21 Communities
--The Intelligent Community Forum, a nonprofit think tank focused on the broadband economy, recently released its list of Smart21 communities. These...
Art and the Politics of Public Housing
--In Art and the Politics of Public Housing, Jacqueline Leavitt makes the calls of Jane Addams and John Dewey to make art a compelling part of everyo...
Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images
--Zenfolio | Thomas H. Hahn Docu-Images | China Urban Planning materials presents close to 4,000 photographs, The galleries on display here belong to...
Lego Education
--Building Asia Brick By Brick is a playful exercise designed to think about urban form in a rapidly changing context. Different kinds of representa...
New York as a Songline
--Bruce Chatwin's classic book, The Songlines, was among other things, a reflection on a communicative genre that performed the function of map, hist...
Wikicity
--The wikicity project is an effort of Assaf Biderman, Francesco Calabrese, Kirstian Kloeckl, Carlo Ratti, and Andrea Vaccari to create a projectso t...
Bookmarks:
Book launch ‘The Internet of Things’ by Rob van Kranenburg :: Institute of Network Cultures Blog
Michael Burawoy on Public Sociology « The Fanonite
RFC 791 (rfc791) - Internet Protocol
TCP/IP Illustrated
Putting people first » Privacy in an age of terabytes and terror
The State of Location-Based Social Networking On The iPhone
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Jon, great meeting you. Let's stay in touch about opportunities for your students. Dante...dmurphy@digitasheal...
Hiya John, interested to meet you -- my academic background is Rhetoric and Professional Writing. I remember an observation years ago by Richard Buchanan that rhetoric commonly rears its head in designers' backgrounds. Anyone else here who'd claim similar training? Always fun to chat about rhetoric's connections with IxD.
Hey Jon ... Chris B says your da bomb! so I'm lookin' forward to seeing you in Savannah!