"CONNECTION NOT FOUND"
A public exhibition exploring how digital life shapes the way we feel, connect, and communicate. I designed the curriculum and the PMFA framework, then guided 14 Drexel students to give invisible digital phenomena physical form.
The Challenge: "Most fights at school now start online. Kids don't argue in person, they argue online, then come to school and fight." A Philadelphia school counselor. Digital harms are real but invisible. Easy to name, hard to feel. And digital literacy answers with more information, not more feeling.The Approach: I built a 10-week Interactive Exhibit course around my framework PMFA: Phenomenon, Metaphor, Form, Action. Instead of solving digital problems, students learned to materialize them. They generated over 400 concepts, then narrowed them with four constraints: simple, buildable, low-tech, and on budget. After ten weeks, four installations stood in the Drexel Westphal College lobby.
The Outcome: 600+ visitors in ten days. A talk at SEGD Communication + Place 2025. A publication in the SEGD Academic Journal.
Partners: University of Pennsylvania SAFELab, Drexel University, Kaiser Permanente Center for Gun Violence Research. READ: SEGD ACADEMIC JOURNAL PUBLICATION
SEGD Academic Summit Talk
PMFA Framework
Students applied my PMFA framework to guide their exhibit designs.
Students Exhibits
