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Checks and Balances: Designing the Public Forum
Local governmental agencies are built on opaque forms of organization and communication (bureaucracies), whose impenetrable structure discourages citizen involvement in a democratic life.This thesis presents the hypothesis that individual Communication Designers, alone or in league with one another, powered by the enlightened self-interest of working within their own communities and equipped with the ability to create clarity and participation by non-textual means, may be a lever to instigate transparency, reform...
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Transparency by Design: Putting an end to Bureaucratic Friction
Layman's Terms: Opaque bureaucratic artifacts have left citizens apathetic with no care for the future of a democratic environment. Citizens are victims to opaque bureaucratic artifacts, such as the use of archaic forms of communication and our disappearing public forum, resulting in apathy and a weaker democracy. Communication Design, can serve as a neutral filter between the conflicting interests and the public through its ability to create clarity and accessibility from large amounts of data. As a result this...
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Battling Bureaucracy By Increasing Transparency
This thesis presents the hypothesis that urban cities fall victim to the bureaucratic friction endemic imposed on civic agencies resulting in confusion and a decrease in civic engagement. Our role as communication designers is using visual and systems thinking in design to remove confusion, increase transparency and promote tangible progressive action. In contrast to other methods that have been used for participatory decision making, this newly proposed methodology can help eradicate bureaucratic systems by establishing...
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Visualizing Political Systems
How Do I see these political systems ? Here I experiment a way to understand these systems by using visualization to compare and contrast.
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Whatever happened with this 2007 competition for Envisioning Gateway?
Another failed experiment? What calls to my attention is the endless pursuit of trying to do something for poor Gateway and the information feels scarce and always out of place. http://www.vanalen...
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Research | Presentation Outline [Flexible]
--1) History of Political Systems Anarchism (Rule by no one) Monarchy (Rule by one person; often hereditary) Monarchies are one of the oldest political systems known, developing from tribal structure with one person the absolute ruler. Feudalism (Rule by a lord/king) Theocracy (Rule by God; often spiritual representatives) and other religions too; also can force convert other non-religious person in any type in this system Fascism (Rule by a national leader) Aristocracy (Rule by nobles) Republic...
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A More Concise Thesis Statement
In order to eradicate the bureaucratic friction endemic to civic agencies (federal, state, or local), our role as communication designers is using visual and systems thinking in design to remove confusion and increase transparency. As a result, this will help facilitate civic engagement while simultaneously build bridges for these complex relations.
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Cliff Notes —Bureaucracy
A bureaucracy is a form of organization based on logic, order, and the legitimate use of formal authority. Bureaucracies are meant to be orderly, fair, and highly efficient. Their features include a clear-cut division of labor, strict hierarchy of authority, formal rules and procedures, and promotion based on competency. http://www.cliffsnotes.com/study_guide/Bureaucracy-Basics.topicArticleId-8944...
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Visual Systems
Creating Visual Systems Architecture http://www.bredemeyer.com/howto.htm References Barbacci, M. R., S. J. Carriere, P. H. Feiler, R. Kazman, M. H. Klein, H. F. Lipson, T. A. Longstaff...
A bilingual, inquisitive, philanthropic designer that would love to connect the world through visual communication. This blog site is to keep track of my process for my thesis in grad school, at Pratt Institute. 
