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Bennett Nestok

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Hello and welcome. My name's Bennett, and I'm an opportunity-hungry designer/educator fueled by an incessant desire to pursue quality and uniquity in everything I create. I'm now enrolled in Harvard University's Master of Education Program in Technology, Innovation, and Education. My goal is to combine seemingly incompatible ideas within my research and in doing so fill in (or even create) unseen gaps in design education fieldwork. My logic behind this is that, from what I've gathered, innovation is often the result of forming unheard–of relationships. Thus, in the pursuit of what this master's program is meant to do—advance the field of education—I want to (oxymoronically) follow suit and do something that's never been done. I try to pursue well–crafted unusualness in everything I do. In my free time I enjoy self–publishing illustrated books with bizarre plots, filming surrealist skits for an online video series, experimenting with hand drawn stylization methods, creating illustrations that convey metaphysics concepts, ideating guerrilla industrial designs, submitting humorous essays to academic blogs, and drafting curriculums for imaginary classes. If you feel that we could work together on something, anything at all, please contact me. Let's build something together. Feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/bennettnestok3
  • Unhangout Project Intern at MIT Media Lab
  • studying Technology, Innovation, and Education at Harvard University
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Member since Dec 2013
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My Community Service Scholarship

Hello there! My name's Bennett, and I'm an opportunity-hungry designer/educator fueled by an incessant desire to pursue quality and uniquity in everything I create. I'm now enrolled in Harvard…

Education

Imagining ≠ Understanding

Your eyes have just now jumped from the image of the map, to the title of this article, and now to each word of the first paragraph. You're trying to discern what this LinkedIn post is about. If you…

Technology

Easy to Use, Hard to Forget

In A Practical Guide To Usability Testing, Joseph S. Dumas and Janice C. Redish state the following regarding what to do when testers ask certain questions: Turn the question around. Participants…

Technology

Staring into Rectangles

If a spaceship filled with advanced alien life forms ever covertly visited Earth in order to study humankind, they would immediately take note of our obsession with rectangles. Whether on the go or…

Technology

Inhaling and Exhaling Media

One thing I now know about design and design management—something I wish I had known in my undergraduate years—is a principle I have only recently come to understand: we designers must ingest media in…