…forsaking the Hudson River Valley for just a few months:
8) Applying to grad school while moving all possessions into storage is fun.
7) Taking bike, leaving truck.
6) 10-week internship with the amazing Glenrose Engineering.
5) Following sweetheart.
4) Friends and collaborators at the Rhizome Collective.
3) Practicar español.
2) Thawing extremities.
1) Breakfast tacos!
Archive for January, 2008
The bulk of the workshop is divided into two sections: Context & Design.
0. Introductions
I. Context (50-60%)
Objective: re-frame our current situation in terms of “deeper” functional and historical relationships; realize some points of leverage and intervention that might otherwise remain hidden.
This section alternates between:
A. Small-group active learning: create a new “snapshot” of present-day social and ecological relationships using the Daylighting mapping exercises.
B. Lecturette: illustrate and explain long-term trajectories in human cultural evolution along key variables; show relationship between social caste and ecological extraction.
II. Design (40-50%)
Objective: foster opportunities for new interventions; bridge knowledge gained in first section with thinking about current and desired projects.
This section follows a similar pattern of alternation between interaction and presentation, with less small-group discussion, and more large-group.
A. Offer design criteria, tools, and techniques, to frame the transition from theory to application, and stimulate fresh and provocative project ideas.
B. Discuss, dissect, experimentally adopt, playfully provoke: wrestle with questions of application in our lives and projects.
D. Review currently existing projects that can function as models and inspirations for our work.
E. Invite and challenge participants to articulate daring desires, concrete goals, and doable next steps, in order to bring the work home and into their lives and projects.
III. Feedback and Closing
05
Jan
Back from Belen
I’ve been back from Belen for a week and a half now, and it feels like I’m just beginning to touch down. The whirlwind of the trip to Peru segued immediately into the whirlwind of Xmas, travel, the New Year, sickness, moving, and a host of logistical dramas.Hopefully the regular readers of this blog have been nearly as busy, and so haven’t been waiting impatiently for an update…Belen was just amazing, in about five ways at once. Each of those ways in turn…
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