Environmental Psychology – OBJECT AMERICA

Content

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Observing “America” through everyday objects.
Pascal Glissmann, Selena Kimball
Observational Practices Lab, Parsons

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The Model 500 telephone, quintessential American object
Ellen Lupton
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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What has this phone seen?
Cindy Katz Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies

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Lived abstraction, making senses
Michael J. Barany
Historian of Modern Science and Mathematics

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What gave meaning to your life?
Fernando Kawai, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

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f plus own = phone
Katie Merz
Visual Artist

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How did the telephone impact face to face interactions?
Lisa M. George
Associate Professor of Economics at Hunter College

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Fantasies calling
Sumita Chakravarty
Associate Professor of Media Studies, The New School

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What can we hear when we stop talking?
Roarke Menzies
New York City-based Artist and Composer

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Hacking and testing the sound of the Model 500
Mara Mills
Associate Professor of Media, Culture and Communication at NYU

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Communicating from the inside
LB Thompson
American Poet and Creative Writing Instructor at The New School

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I pushed my shoulders back — then I answered the phone
Anuja Bagul
Senior Material Scientist, New Technologies

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Is this black phone really black?
Marco Tedesco
Research Professor at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

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A Pavlovian response to the ring
Benjamin Rubin
Director at Center for Data Arts, The New School

—3— What has this phone seen?

Environmental Psychology, Geography Posted by Pascal

Cindi Katz — Professor of Geography in Environmental Psychology and Women’s Studies