Published in DataDrivenInvestor·Mar 31Habits of DesireCreating Desiring Systems — This article is an excerpt of my book, “Ontological Design: Subject is Project”, available now on Amazon. Ontological Design explicitly addresses the post-human subject as a new category of design project. Rather than designing artefacts, the design of the future will architect human subjectivity via artefacts. …Ontological Design22 min read
Published in DataDrivenInvestor·May 27, 2020The Manifesto of Ontological DesignOntological design is the design discipline concerned with designing human experience. It does so by operating under one essential assumption: that by designing objects, spaces, tools and experiences, we are in fact designing the human being itself. …Ontological Design10 min read
Published in Bullshit.IST·Feb 21, 2017HYPERDIMENSIONAL DESIGNTHE INFUSION OF BELIEF AND THE CITY IN THE SKY FOREWORD: This article will have two voices. One is more or less rational and is careful with connecting ideas; read it like non-fiction, if such a thing even exists. Another is more bold; adventurous, like the perception of a fictional…Virtual Reality17 min read
Published in Bullshit.IST·Nov 20, 2016VIRTUAL REALITY AND POST ARCHITECTUREIt’s not about designing space. It’s about designing people through space. — It is hard to find VR content that doesn’t derive at least some of its value from the technological novelty that the medium represents. The so-called “gimmick” value still stops us from perfecting a form of expression that is truly native to the medium. It’s time to change that. VR is not film. VR is not theatre. VR is not architecture. VR is VR.Virtual Reality15 min read
Sep 22, 2016ON THE CYCLICAL AND ARCHETYPAL NATURE OF TIMEThis article relates the practice of Post-Architecture and Ontological Design to the idea of Time as a malleable substance, to be manipulated together with space to interfere with the entity we like to call “Human”. DO YOU HAVE A MINUTE? The first issue I’d like to address, relating to the notion of “time”, is how…Design7 min read
Sep 22, 2016FATECRAFT2: HACKING THE MATRIXI know, I know; cliché title. At least if you’ve roamed enough “alternative research” websites — also called “conspiracy theorists”. But here’s the thing; it IS possible to “hack the matrix” through good Ontological Design. Here’s how to do it through Post-Architecture: VIRTUAL REALITY IS A PLEONASM All reality is…Design6 min read
Sep 22, 2016FATECRAFT 1: HIGHJACKING POWER GAMESThis is the first of two of articles that intends to make Post-Architecture — as a method — more explicit and concrete. I’ve called this series FATECRAFT, and in this first post, I’ll go over some necessary essentials. Here, I’ll try to frame Post-Architectural design as the TACTICS for the…Design4 min read
Sep 22, 2016NEW MEDIA SPACES, DREAMSCAPES AND MAGICKWho hasn’t fallen in love with an idea? Better yet, who hasn’t fallen in love with a fictitious scenario, whose dynamics and interactions happened nowhere except in our (body)minds? Have you ever found yourself daydreaming while listening to music, drifting off to an ethereal location known only to you and…Virtual Reality6 min read
