Elisa Ngan
My name is Elisa. I design software to enhance human intelligence.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
9/28/24
elisa, derived from elizabeth, from elisheva, from the tongue of holiness, a pointer to god’s witness to truth; his abundance, to comrades and to friends. - a man gives birth to his first baby girl. he likes the lilt of L’s. he decides he wants her to be different, so he adds the khmer prefix for getting someone’s attention, an “ah-“, translated here as an “e-“. e-lisa, to him the first in the world, born from his clever brain, special. at home, her name is lisa, the e an extra phonetic segment. usually invisible, the e written down is a future foreshadowed, coded persistence. a fortuitous affordance for someone who struggles with sounds. god’s oath, god’s witness.
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2019
2019
A ritual for cacao-to-chocolate supply chain mindfulness.
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2019 - 2021
2019 - 2021
An experience for hooking up physical stations to the digital world.
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2020
2020
A food truck for a water scarce future.
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2021 - Now
2021 - Now
A map for the manifold management of moss.
A system to create orchestrated data pipelines.
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018
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A digital space for phygital assets.
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
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A comparative analysis of neural network performance.
2019
2019
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2018
2018
A tool for disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline.
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2021
2021
A digital border for processing international refugees.
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2021 - 2022
2021 - 2022
An investigation into the credibility of material perception.
A logic model for programming connected tools at scale.
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
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A willfully ignorant conflation of concept and metaphor: the "technical" stereotype.
2021
2021
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A machine for contextual intelligence.
2021 - Now
2021 - Now
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A method for creating containers for answers to good questions.
2023 - Now
2023 - Now
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2021 - Now
2021 - Now
A retrospective on system mapping in design.
Design History of Systems Theory
2021
2021
An interview on the latent narratives that frames designs for the disabled.
On Help
2021
2021
An interview on the difference between using data and intuition in design.
On Data & Intuition
2013
2013
An analysis of how ritual spaces release collective trauma in cases of war and land dispossession.
Ritual Spaces of Healing
2013
2013
An analysis of how symptoms are transformed into symbols to resolve the split self.
Transforming Symptoms into Symbols
2011
2011
An analysis of how stadiums are gifted in return for nuclear energy: environmental injustice in rural Japan and the spatial distribution of risk.
Fukushima Nuclear Power Disaster
2010
2010
An analysis of how early Chinese propaganda utilized Guy Debord's notion of the spectacle to establish nationhood within the psychical space of the home.
Spectacle in Speculative China
2017
2017
A giant underground rainstick.
2016
2016
A digital storefront for Mexican & South African sellers.
2015
2015
A set of scripts for generating drawings of seating venue maps.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
A renovation to technically upgrade the home of a championship NBA team.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
A set of studies showing how a new arena for a historic Seattle team will benefit the citizens of Seattle.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
An extension of a campus gym that is informed with user research on student needs.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
A set of interiors for camp dormitories in woodsy Northern California.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
A site analysis of baseball stadiums across Texas.
2013 - 2015
2013 - 2015
A set of terracotta veil facade concepts for a soccer stadium in California.
2011 - 2013
2011 - 2013
A manual check of many ceiling anchors throughout hospitals in Los Angeles.
2011 - 2013
2011 - 2013
A set of designs for helping children feel like they are outside amongst the trees.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Site Reconnaissance
Site Reconnaissance
Internationalization
Internationalization
Perception
Perception
Data Design
Data Design
Epistemic Injustice
Epistemic Injustice
Professional Practice
Professional Practice
Ontology
Ontology
Data Governance
Data Governance
Sustainability
Sustainability
Racial Injustice
Racial Injustice
Persecution
Persecution
Machine Learning
Machine Learning
Performance Optimization
Performance Optimization
Asset Management
Asset Management
Water
Water
Ritual
Ritual
Symbolic Systems
Symbolic Systems
Design Practice
Design Practice
Design Power
Design Power
Data Science
Data Science
Enterprise Design
Enterprise Design
Energy
Energy
Waste
Waste
Marketing
Marketing
Robotics
Robotics
Industrial IoT
Industrial IoT
Automotive
Automotive
Consumer Packaged Goods
Consumer Packaged Goods
Sports & Entertainment
Sports & Entertainment
Migration - DELETE
Migration - DELETE
Manufacturing
Manufacturing
Healthcare
Healthcare
E-Commerce
E-Commerce
Disability
Disability
Data Management
Data Management
Crime
Crime
Food
Food
Government
Government