Posted by
Siddharth-3 on
Mar 22, 2010; 1:49pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/advice-needed-tp4777984.html
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 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
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