Jessy Kate Schingler

Some projects I am currently working on:
The Embassy Network, a distributed housing network for driven world changers to co-work and co-live around the planet. We’re currently building an initial team of awesome houses in different cities, to test the model and see how things work in practice.
Word API, an open, RESTful web framework for working with natural language documents. Currently the focus is on an html5 tag cloud API, with future plans for topic analysis tools.
Peer to Peer University, a community experimenting with peer learning and open education. We just released a programming challenge for beginners. I’m also building challenges and teams related to open science Check it out and come play!
La Choza del Mundo, a place to work on projects in the mountainous jungle of Costa Rica. We’re always looking for fellows who want to spend time at the property and create something special.

I’m a technologist, hacker, designer of experimental institutions, and community builder, with a particular love of all things urban, open science, peer learning, sensors, data mining, and live-work spaces.

I am interested in the design of systems that manifest our environment and social structures as an iterative learning platform for experimentation and innovation. I envision citizens as creators and participatory scientists. Our built environment and institutions can be optimized to facilitate human productivity and creativity. The primary enabler for this is technology, both as a means to study and learn from large scale statistical patterns in these environments (data mining), as well as designing and embedding technology to augment, redefine, or even blur environments such as home, work, public space, play, or transportation. This includes looking at ways that ubiquitous computing can enhance and augment collaboration and local interactions between people, help to mine human behaviour patterns in large scale data sets, and designing technology to embed into every day life.