My posting on this site has been protracted of late, due to the ongoing work I’ve been undertaking at the CFC Media Lab. I’ve put together a drupal-based content management website to manage our development process, which is accessible at http://cfc.andrewmallis.com.

It’s a pretty complex site whose core functionality supports wiki-style page entries, while simultaneously bringing together blogs, forums (unused so far), photo galleries (and gallery integration using tags, views and thickbox – pretty snazzy), an events calendar and minutes which attach themselves to meetings. There’s also some solid audio integration, and I originally had a custom content type for sticky notes, styled all nice too, but we found it more effective to just take pictures of our sticky note exercises and post those instead.

Things are going well in our group. There is no shortage of ideas, inspiration, or enthusiasm. The five members of team GUSTA (Geneviève-Ulysses-Simone-Tristen-Andrew) have had to face the challenge of narrowing in on a project they can all care about. Consequently, we began a journey of thematic exploration with a view to find commonality (and difference) and spiral in towards a precise manifestation of our core values – all by consensus! What a challenge.

We moved in from The Human Experience to The Need to Consume and have come up with a project tentatively titled Pimp My Bot – a modular physical computing project where each component has encapsulated, functionality. The forms promote modular thinking of the sort seen in electronics kits, but with LEGO-like ease of assembly. We are looking at a highly configurable, product-based design, where user contributed content plays a key role. If this all seems a bit vague at the moment, it’s because we’re working on clarifying and streamlining what it does and how it does it.