I'm a feral scholar working outside traditional academic boundaries to investigate how infrastructures shape the human condition. I'm interested in the architectures that structure our collective sense-making: the technologies, institutions, and psychologies that organize how meaning moves and who gets to make it. My practice is rooted in what my mentor Bob Stein once told me the world desperately needs: talented generalists who can trace systemic patterns across domains.
I've contributed to projects like Toyota's first AI-driven car concept and One Laptop per Child, exploring how technology encodes particular ways of understanding the world. In 2006, I partnered with the Doris Lessing estate to create an experiment in collaborative scholarship— a live, public reading of The Golden Notebook where writers, scholars, and readers thought together in real time, before social media flattened those possibilities. I've worked with the Institute for the Future of the Book and the Institute of Play to examine how digital systems mediate learning, play, and public discourse.
I studied at Rhode Island School of Design and The New School, was a Visiting Scholar at NYU, and co-received a 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Now I write and consult to help people decode systems of power and meaning— to see the infrastructure underneath, and find new ways to comprehend and create.
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