semeiotica
recombining contemporary art, design strategy and life science

About

semeiotica is Italian for symp·to·ma·tol·o·gy (sĭm’tə-mə-tŏl’ə-jē) n. The medical science of symptoms -or- the combined symptoms of a disease.

However, I didn’t really know that. I was just trying to remix the ideas of semiotics, meiosis, and maybe even erotica. Low and behold a new word was born…or reborn that is.

Here I describe and catalog design ecologies and relationships among art, design, science, and biology. Sometimes they intersect. Sometimes they conflict. Conflict begets development. Development demands synthesis.

I am currently an Artist-in-Residence at the Center for Experimental Media Arts (CEMA) at the Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore, India. I regularly teach labs in design for sustainability, interactive experience design, information design, and film analysis at Srishti as well as the experimental theme labs at CEMA.

This year I am describing what I do as design ecology. Design ecology is concerned with the abundance and distribution of interactions in the design process. Identifying these interactions and their histories facilitates better decision making towards positive futures. I look for opportunities to develop social capital and design strategy for organizational change at the intersections of life science, art, design, education, and business. My objective is to promote effective and lasting interactions between the life sciences, education, information technology, business, art, and design.

Other than that, most of my research interests are reflected in the pages of this blog.

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