Hi All,
Hope this finds you fine. Just a quick (semi-desperate!) note from a lurker,
who's perhaps reached the point of reaching out & communicating, finally!
A brief backgrounder - I was trained in Architecture/Urbanism and then
completed a Masters in Design (Visual Communication- think HCI, UI/UX,
InfoViz with additional/parallel explorations in Film, Graphics, New Media),
moving on to rural development projects at Media Lab Asia - all in India. A
few other places/projects since, I took up a teaching position at a Design
school (again in India); after which I got into some short term projects
with Nokia- their new Systems Research Center in Bangalore & more recently,
their Emerging Markets' Services (that addresses needs of rural systems, via
real-time data, viz weather, market prices etc). I'm now at the Spatial
Information Architecture Lab in Melbourne- on the verge of plunging myself
into a PhD, though am not sure if this is the right space, and I've really
drawn a blank on possible alternates.
To explain - I wish to take up something along the lines of my longstanding
personal interests in the overlap of Systems Sciences (comprehending,
visualizing systems), Evolution (of complexity, of consciousness), and
Design Research ('interventions' at the scales of the
macro/planetary/ecological through to the micro/personal/biological - yes,
rather too ambitious for now!). I haven't been able to make this transition
yet, especially in the absence of learning at spaces/labs that are truly
open to these areas of work; and hence most concepts/ideas have remained
largely philosophical/theoretical or even observational. My personal website
www.emergentX.net <http://www.emergentx.net/> contains some examples that
outline my thoughts into a comprehensive research intent/direction. I am
currently on the lookout for apt places to be for this and would appreciate
any thoughts/advice on the same, and if this would be of interest to any of
the research spaces you're in contact with. (To reiterate- I'm not from the
traditional backgounds that seem to operate in these domains- hence no
engineering, computer science, biology, social science background to fall
back on!)...
Hope to hear from some of you, and looking forward to some feedback/advice!
Many thanks in advance,
Kind regards/
siddharth
www.emergentX.net <http://www.emergentx.net/>
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