Comments for molly wright steenson, ph.d.

Comment on research by Susan Williams

Susan Williams — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 17:55:11 +0000

Hi Molly!

I stumbled upon your work through Kathy Baxter’s ginormous list of AI/Ethics resources in the world. I watched your presentation at IXDA and was floored/relieved/excited and overwhelmed with the desire to reach out. I have an anthro background mixed with interwar Japanese history. I’ve existed in the digital health space, helping companies think through design, market position, communications. I’ve done work in design thinking/human centered research/ethnography and community-based co-design and have recently begun to pay closer to the conversation AI and ethics. I’ve seen the roll out of standards, terms, protocols and your question about what we REALLY mean by ethics? AND also – where do company’s liability for “ethical use of their products end struck a chord.

If you haven’t, I HIGHLY recommend my professor, Orit Halpern’s book, Beautiful Data. And also, if you haven’t encountered Giorgia Lupi’s book Dear Data, I very much suggest checking her out. Giorgia just joined Pentagram Design as a partner, and also runs Acurat, a data design studio out of Milan and NYC. I worked with her on a project to visualize care ecosystems. Orit is just magical and has been thinking about the history of our methods of inquiry and reflection in terms of science and technology for some time. I can’t imagine she’s not paying attention to AI right now, as well.

Comment on Hüsker Dü on the Today Show by John Hoffman

John Hoffman — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 17:35:25 +0000

I just learned Grant Hart passed away from cancer, age 56. He was living in Saint Paul. I was on the plaza that day in the rain and enjoyed the heck out of it. Thank you, Grant, may you RIP.
John Hoffman, Chisago City, MN

Comment on The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines by Maya Christodoulaki

Maya Christodoulaki — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 18:28:25 +0000

Thank you for sharing these Molly, I have been looking for these books!

Comment on The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines by Eduardo

Eduardo — Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:23:01 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing these!

Comment on research by Brian P. Willmot

Brian P. Willmot — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:58:38 +0000

Hello Molly
I viewed recently, just by chance, on YouTube, a very brief lecture about the history of ‘pneumatic tubes’. Although I found your presentation entertaining, and effervescent gesticulation always makes me smile, I felt it didn’t do justice to recounting the development and invention by British engineers without whom the system would not have flourished in Victorian/Edwardian times. No mention of Josiah Latimer Clarke ‘In 1854, he took out a patent “for conveying letters or parcels between places by the pressure of air and vacuum,” and later, in 1863, was concerned in the construction, by the London Pneumatic Despatch Company, of a tube between the London North-West District post office and Euston station, London’. Without my great-grandfather inventing the ‘double-sluice valve’ in 1870 the system would not have become successful. I hope you are well. Best regards
Brian P. Willmot

Comment on Dissertation proposal! Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture, 1960–80 by Sergej Pogorelov

Sergej Pogorelov — Tue, 07 Apr 2015 09:59:42 +0000

Hi Molly!

It’s a grate theme for dissertation to my mind. In fact I’m at the very beginning of my dissertation aimed at Generative Design in architecture at Belarusian National Technical Institute at the moment. Which already led me to Architectural Artificial Intelligence questions. I guess it would be grate if we could share our ideas being in the process of research.

Any way, you may contact me via kava.architects[at]gmail.com

Wish you luck in your research.

Sergej.

Comment on The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines by molly

molly — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 19:34:55 +0000

In reply to Laura.

Do scan that in! I have that book from the library and wish I owned it…

Comment on The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines by Laura

Laura — Sat, 17 Jan 2015 14:57:07 +0000

Thanks a million of sharing these Molly.
I have a book which is a conference at Yale on early computer interfaces, Including Urban 5 – I’ll have to scan and contribute to your files…..

Comment on weeknote 02 and 03 by 7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » The HABITAR Essays

7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » The HABITAR Essays — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 08:28:05 +0000

[…] that resonate in many of the contemporary discourses. Right at that time Molly Wright Steenson had contributed to the Microsoft Social Computing Symposium with an “introduction of computing to urbanism and urban planning”. Molly kindly agreed […]

Comment on The Architecture Machine and Soft Architecture Machines by Rob van Nood

Rob van Nood — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:49:07 +0000

Molly,

I’m taking a class at MIT and for years have been interested in the work of the Media Lab and One Laptop Per Child so it wouldn’t be strange that I would be poking around about Nicholas Negroponte a bit. What was strange was that I came to your website and saw the digital copies of his books. Ok, that’s not that strange either. What’s strange is that I thought you were bound for musical theater. You just rocked it in Guys and Dolls circa 1989. Mounds View has a long history of….sensational….theatrical…well….ok…maybe not. Its not often I stumble upon old Mustangs out in the world of the interwebs so I just wanted to say hello. If you didn’t figure it out already from my previous 2 sentences I went to MV too. You might have remembered me as gangster number 11. I had to drag out a very long 2 minute death sequence on opening night when my colleague and dear friend Erik Dyste decided to improvise beyond his one sentence line. It was in all the school papers. Fine fine acting. You were in that play right?

Sorry if my message lowered the standard set by most of the previous respondents. Well, Roberto’s was a little generic but he did spice it up with a romance language. I was going to go with Dutch but its not quite the same.

tot ziens.

Cheers and congratulations on the professorship. Madison is a good town, if you have to live in the mid-west. 🙂