From framework to fieldwork

Ethnographic fieldwork on the Buildspace community across online platforms and physical gatherings. Qualifying exams passed September 2022; Ph.D. awarded 2025.

Media-systems analyses, an open-resources curation method, and three years as sponsor project lead of the University of Utah's Bridge Language Program data-visualization partnership with MSIS capstone teams.

The first thing the author asked this assistant was about the Lindy effect: how to tell what lasts.

Participant observation online and at Fort Mason, San Francisco; the author built in House Erevald.

The program studied in the dissertation announces its closure two weeks after its largest in-person event.

Twenty-two songs written and vibe-tracked by the author, produced with Suno, released as Mameen. The Buildspace season project, shipped after the program closed.

Established as the research and publication arm of Pip Projects, Inc.

The committee names the Digital Sidewalk a new measurable framework and asks for one revision: claim it plainly.

Digital Sidewalk chosen for the public research entity; Gravel9 set aside as the applied engine. First public site built.

The Digital Sidewalk: Indirect Learning and Entertainment-Education in Decentralized Communities, IEEE Digital Education and MOOCs Conference.

One bounded-cavity model for acoustic, thermal, and HVAC domains. Validation checklist written, not run.

Four-surface console deployed; two-device differential rig running in Clemson.

23,451 samples over 17.5 hours through a real ice storm, published with stated limits.

A computational lower bound for f(3), and a paper on Titze's vocal-acoustics framework as an archetype of resonant systems.

Observation schema, evidence classes, missingness taxonomy, source registry, validation plan.

Frozen failure preserved; ceiling meta-calibrated from 200 null replicates; independent reproduction; shelved pending real use.

Four levels of claim, four ledgers, nodes and export profiles. Global protocol v0.2 written the same day.

Long-term harness specified and built with an honest real/stub list; blind microphone calibration protocol written.

Apache-2.0 platform with a pluggable detection interface; the Lab's engine sits outside as a provider.

Unit 01 named; three uses of one name separated by rule.