About
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Unfolding Aliveness
2024

Unfolding Aliveness is an educational-ecological-artistic-space, studio, and practice which attends to and creates with multispecies world/s.

Founded by Matthew Bejtlich and Charlotte Hankin, it is our response to an increasingly ravaged planet, one marked by the epoch ‘Anthropocene’; a planetary boundary marked by human in/action. Charlotte and Matthew feel concern for the future/s of all life on this planet and seek out hope-full, generative and imaginative responses to attend-to, heal, provoke, agitate, conjure up alternative ways of living (and dying) together.  

︎︎︎Website 

︎Participatory Design, Storytelling, Sound Design, Visual Design, Environmental Education


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Open Articulations
MFA Thesis 
Rhode Island School of Design

Open Articulations proposes new strategies for mapping, archiving, and understanding territories through a practice focused on mindful presence, play, and physical immersion. In making participatory archives of our experiences, it opens a collective space for multiple voices to be heard, allowing new entrypoints into a territory, and offering new ways of understanding a place, each other, and ourselves.

︎︎︎Digital Version (PDF)

︎Participatory Design, Regenerative Design, Systems Thinking, Unsmoothing

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Kinesthetic 
Rhode Island School of Design

︎Book Design, Photography


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Data-driven seed sharing
SeedLinked

How can we unflatten, juxtapose, and reveal the multiple stakeholder perspectives in the agri-food supply chain to offer a more authentic experience? 

︎︎︎Digital Version (PDF)

︎Data Science, Food Systems, Innovation Design



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Blossoming Fashion Conversation
Exhibition at Somerset House (London)
Collborated with Holition, British Fashion Council, and Google

︎︎︎Digital Version (PDF)

︎Data Science, Sustainability



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Hungary 
Two tone, Information Design
Rhode Island School of Design

︎Book design



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Sketchy
Creativity support tool
Brown University

︎︎︎Feature analysis (PDF)
︎︎︎Summary (PDF)

︎Computer interaction



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Predicting Household Income In NYC
Data science project
Collaborators:  Yiwen Shen and Zhiwei Zhang
Brown University

︎︎︎Read report
︎︎︎Code on Github





FORCE AND POSITION MIDI CONTROLLER

For my senior capstone project in electrical engineering, I led a team of five other engineering students to design a highly customizable position and force sensing MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) controller prototype for a small synth repair company based in Southern Maine called New England Analog. MIDI is a technical standard for digitally representing and transmitting sounds — it is used as a touch surface to allow the user to control a wide range of sound parameters (e.g velocity, pitch, and panning) base upon the force of the applied touch.
        Over the course of the year, my team developed and produced a working prototype satisfying the major requirement and needs of the customer. We presented the result in front of a panel of judges and industry leaders. 

Date: 2014
Client: New England Analog 
Class: Electrical Enginnering Senior Capstone
Collaborators: Cameron Connor, Jean Pierre, Aaron
DaPonte, Greg Ladd, Devin Honeycutt
Advisors: David Rancour, PhD and Howard Michel, PhD
Data science, data visualization



︎︎︎Process documentation (Download PDF)