DesignInquiry
OTHER/WISE
When the DesignInquiry framers conceived of OTHER/WISE last fall (and/or, for that matter, Rod and I committed to our year of appreciating the weird), we had no idea how much the goings on in American government would warp the focus. Mainly we were thinking about alternative approaches to practice, and how coming at something from…
Read MoreWILD _ _ NESS / WEIRD _ NESS
This past August DesignInquiry traveled to Bamfield, BC to study the topic WILD _ _ NESS / WEIRD _ NESS. Amidst discussions of climate change, the anthropocene, queering of spaces, and questioning what is a wild space, the outcome of this Inquiry for Rod and I is a commitment to notice and appreciate wildness, wilderness,…
Read MoreProductive Counter-Production
Some thoughts on DesignInquiry’s Productive Counter-Production residency on Vinalhaven, Maine. Productive Counter-Production, an idea put forth by Gabrielle Esperdy, and fostered by Gail Swanlund after Gabrielle gave a memorable lecture on the subject at CalArts, arrived in my life when the idea of productive counter-production struck as more about doing something different than doing something other than what…
Read MoreDisruption
This morning I came across this poster of Robert Opel the streaker in the 1979 Academy Awards. I was reading a bit about his life and here is the video of the fateful event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIl3zSYL8k I love two things that David Niven says off the cuff in the program: “That was almost bound to happen,”…
Read MoreJune was fun.
A couple of images from DesignInquiry ACCESS on Vinalhaven. So much to reflect on this month, more to come.
Read MoreDetroit { rock city! }
// All systems have balances of success and failure, ebbs and flows, positive and negative feedback loops that create equilibrium within their respective ecologies. DETROIT represents a city in constant flux like no other on the American landscape. Assuming we are all navigating the curve of a success/fail cycle, then what might we observe to be true…
Read MorePortland, You’re the Best
I’m in Maine, tucked in to Margo and Charles‘ nook (more on that later,) getting ready a workshop about moving beyond the design process, and then, a tiny house lecture on Tuesday. Poster by Beth Taylor. Super excited.
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Ghost Drawings
Back from an inspiring week on Vinalhaven for DesignInquiry: STATION. In preparation for our fall Poor Farm Inquiry, we had lunch and a design/improv (dis)placement project led by Liz Craig over at the Poor Farm, plus I led a discussion about place/no-place. The Poor Farm on Vinalhaven is legendarily haunted, so naturally the typography of…
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Thank you Margo Halverson.
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