A summer at the Open Documentary Lab.

Ten prototypes, one design survey.

I built and tested ten prototype wearable devices for facial-recognition research and led a design survey with 40 students. The build cadence was tight — each prototype answered one specific design question, then got iterated or scrapped.

What does documentary become when you can stand inside it?

At the Open Documentary Lab I co-authored a research article and accompanying video exploring the evolution of documentary as an immersive medium — a question that, five years later, the entire spatial-computing industry was still working through.

Form determines what's askable.

1. Spatial mediums change the questionDocumentary as an article is a different artifact than documentary as a space you can walk through. Worth taking seriously, both ways.
2. Prototype to learn, not to shipEach of the ten wearables was a question, not a product.