ANNA M YANG
人算不如天算

I was asked to make a blog for the NYU IMA Low Res graduate program. (I started with no tangible experience in interaction design.) Math is nature’s poetry, and these are just diary entries.

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13 PROJECT 02 DOCUMENTATION

Everything that interests me is about connetion. I hope people become more curious- Curious about themselves, each other, and the universe at large. I believe we all just want to feel a little less alone in the world.

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1213/2024 
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12 PROGRESS

This project is designed for an audience that is curious about reality vs. realism and the dualities inherently present in this topic.

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1203/2024 
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11 IAE

Would it reveal that we live in a block universe, where all moments exist simultaneously? Would it change our views of determinism? Would we be inclined to mine time as a resource? 

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1119/2024 
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10 JANKY PROTOTYPES

Time is of the essence. I shall not be trying to tackle the Big Bang and subsequent predictions of parallel universes in the inflationary Universe theory. Ha.

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1105/2024
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09 SPECULATIVE DESIGN

Recently, I’ve been thinking about what it means to be human during a time when much of our reality is being increasingly mediated by screens. We quite literally have a separate (integrated?) form of reality being constructed around us.

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1105/2024 
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08 RITUAL

The first time I heard this song, I cried. It was during savasana after a yoga class. On the car ride back home, I listened to it as the cool, Vancouver wind blew in my hair.

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1029/2024 
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07 PROJECT 01 DOCUMENTATION

“Cute.”

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1020/2024 
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06 PROJECT 01 MUSINGS

Understanding the finitude of my red blood cells’ lifespans is a strange experience. Why is it that the cells in my body are constantly dying when my consciousness is only capable of experiencing living? 

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1015/2024 
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05 AFFORDANCES

At the root of it, Taoism is a philosophy understood as the undefinable “way” (道/tao/dao) of the universe. It teaches harmony with the energy of everything around us. Yin and yang. Heaven and earth. 

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1008/2024 
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04 CRITICALITY & METAPHOR

Life is a wavicle. Individual moments exist, but they cannot tell me much about a person. Local minimums are not absolute. If we zoom out, we can see movement, connection, and thus, gratitude.

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0930/2024 
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03 SYSTEMS & FORM

Let’s go further than the human-canine relationship. If you subscribe to the Big Bang theory, the entire universe existed as an initial singularity. Everything is kin to everything.

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0924/2024 
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02 SYSTEMS THINKING

If capitalism must exist, how we can leverage greed for good? How can we leave behind what The Land of the Free taught us, so we can be free?

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0917/2024 
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01 EMERGENT STRATEGY

Today, I believe that we are here as a cell in the universe as it tries to experience life on all levels, from the unobservable subatomic scale to the incomprehensible vastness outside of the Cosmic Microwave.

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0908/2024 
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