Branding, Marketing, Website Development, and Community Engagement Serivces and Applications

Community Remarks™ is an app PlaceVision developed to facilitate place-based communication online. It has been successfully utilized in the City of Buffalo, NY and Northbrook, Illinois to get citizens talking about what’s great and not-so-great about their community. We are currently in the process of deploying customized Community Remarks™ solutions for a variety of communities [...]

The Okapi Conservation web site is now live! It’s a WordPress website for the White Oak Conservation Center located in Yulee, Florida. They have many endangered African species on their campus and work to preserve them. Check it out! The Okapi Conservation Project is located within the Ituri Forest, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, [...]

Augmented Reality (AR) is the act of projecting web-based content over the physical world. It can be deployed and viewed on a smart phone. It overlays geo-referenced web pages over specific physical locations. It isn’t magic, it needs to be programmed, just like a website. This graphic (which I created for Georgia Tech and can [...]

In my previous article, What is Augmented Reality, Really? I briefly discussed how AR works. Now I’m going to create a scenario for the potential uses of the Argon browser (currently being created at Georgia Tech) to illustrate what can be done with augmented reality. Imagine you are within 60 feet of the Clough Undergraduate [...]

Buffalo, NY conducted 9 community workshops in March for the Buffalo Green Code, a website I maintain. Recently, I had put the workshop summaries (one for each section of town) online. They recorded comments during the sessions and created geographic layers corresponding to the strong and weak areas of each neighborhood. We wanted to post [...]

There are web communication tools that architects, designers, and urban planners can utilize to communicate more effectively. The process of design review, community meetings, and field work can be eased with communication applications that output to visualization. Firms should start with their own website. There are too many architecture/planning firms with outdated websites which hinders [...]

In 2009 at Where 2.0 in San Jose, I attended this session entitled, Reality Mining for Companies, or, How Social Networks Network Best. Professor Sandy’s presentation on reality mining is still emerging technology; a re-listen has me convinced architects and city planners will find it of value. Reality mining is answering the questions “where are [...]

You have probably seen the commercials for the Xbox Kinect where the game tracks the user’s body as he/she mirrors the dancer on the tv screen. This is only half of what the system can do. I don’t have one (yet) and this isn’t a commercial to buy one. I want to point out some [...]

Anatomy of a Architecture Firm Website I recently completed a new website, StudioD architecture. We wanted to keep it simple but take advantage of technologies that would enable us to syndicate content, keep it updated, and present a portfolio on the site and on a map. A firm’s website can look very different from the [...]

As we close this year out and look towards the new year full of promise, I wanted to remind you to be conscious of your firm’s website. I’m currently working on how to make the AIA TAP homepage more engaging and intuitive. You will see some positive changes rolling out over the next several months. [...]