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No longer feeling the need for public work-logging. Will return if I find some new use for tumblr.

In the meantime, Hopscotch got an update!

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My friend @ed and I have been slowly organizing a loose architecture for self-initiated study groups, called Sunday School. See here a tentative syllabus and bibliography for a class I'd love to take/teach, Spatial Studies.

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Lukas WinklerPrins, Technical Researcher and Designer

LTWP.NET got an update. Babybindery is there but not quiiite presentable quality yet...

Am in Virginia at my parents' house for June and July. Gotta wrap up some stuff, but mostly some relaxed time to read books and sort LEGO.

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Hopscotch update coming... teeny tiny webshop and Kari's pair...

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Wrapping up. I've been neglectful to put in large blocks of time to any one thing, so feel as if I'm ending with a fizzle. Never quite got my feet back on the ground and spread myself too thin after my trip to Holland. I took on too many individual projects this spring, and lost a lot of time and energy to context-switching. Quadrants above from a conversation with my boss Chris Bull. I'll be at the BDW for another year in a Design Fellow role, focusing on bringing more design/build components into core Engineering curricula and elsewhere on campus. I love design theory and pedagogy and am excited to organize some more events and do some writing to further the efforts at Brown.

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Have been workinf on a mechanism for book generation outnod the web browser with my friend Catherine Schmidt for thenpaat few months. Now on documentation.

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Overalls are almost done! We feel leagues better working with our pattern, tucking corners in, and crusply finishing edges. This feels like a well-made garment, a long throw from our first pair a year ago. Mostly it took knowing what to expect with the fabric behavior. The mulberry corduroy is amazing to work with. Great hand. Thick and textured enough to hold well, but thin enough to sew through easily. We're location scouting this morning and will finish this afternoon. In the meantime, starting a deep clean in te BDW.

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It's been a zany week. While I was in the Netherlands a week and a half ago, the laser cutter broke. New laser cartridge arrived yesterday. After some troubleshooting, it's back up and running... just in time for a few remaining final classes.

Many of our monitors are now leaving, though. It'll be a very quiet two remaining weeks in the BDW this month.

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Thanks again to WINTERCHECK FACTORY NYCxSKYMALL for hosting my performance piece, $54.

The goal was a 3-hour window ($54 at $18/hour) with a set of mixed stock materials from Home Depot ($54 in total). I performed with a syntax of movements, positionin and repositioning the elements within a stage, with blurred lines between construction and deconstruction.

Description below:

Three people come into your workshop and say "Hey, we just spent $54 at Home Depot for this, can you help us?" and what can you tell them? What do you buy when you have nothing to make? What do you make when you have nothing to say? Why bother. Sure, I'll help you. Come watch. MATERIALS: Home Depot, Man

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Pop-up shop! It was a great success as far as an event goes. We only sold one scarf but consider that a big step forward. Now towards an online shop...

EDIT: We had our first customer, Sarah Rainwater!

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Marathon session last night! Nathan and Lukas finished the T-shirts. Grace and Pierie finished prints on the scarves. Now today, the POP-UP MARKET!

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Come through this Friday. Graphic by BROTHERS.

My first attempt at performance art outside of college. Pretty nervous, and I haven't really been able to rehearse in a week. It's an "ambient" performance in that not really meant to be watched all the way through. Treat it like a sculpture. I'll perform for a block of 3 hours, likely 9pm-midnight.

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If you are near Providence, come join a week from today at a pop-up market for local artist and designers to sell small-batch goods.

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T-shirts coming along…

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Double-duty sewing session last night, excited to unveil our “inside-out” jersey Ts. We wanted to put the soft side to the inside, and the interesting texture facing out…

We have often made the armholes too small and are last-minute working to adjust their size so as to not feel restrictive.

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Speculative Design, Futures Design—what do these mean? In this roundtable, we will break these buzzwords down into their meaningful components and reflect on the state of the field. We will also discuss how design fits into the current disciplinary landscape; as design-oriented approaches permeate many disciplines, what do these refinements of the term mean in terms of how it is situated? Is Design the 3rd culture? Can making and thinking be separated? Who can design be for? Through discussion of personal experiences in the academy and interactions with the field, we can work towards a consensus of terms and ways to investigate design at Brown.

I'm leading this conversation on Wednesday.

Getting to the end of my employment at Brown—I'll leave with the academic year at the end of this month. This is the last event I'll organize; from then on, it's all finishing workshops and teaching some monitors effective tool use for them to pass on.

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Took a trip to NYC with Nate to have a couple meetings, drop off my sculpture materials, and buy silk for our scarf production. Now back to a couple weeks of frantic activity!

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Some early identity work for an ephemeral art show that failed to materialize. Done with friends—Elizabeth, Polina, and Nathan.