community arts 101

giving kids disposable cameras and letting them go to town is like community arts 101. but i just developed the photos that the power project kids took of their neighborhood a lesson or so ago, and i am in love with them all.

and this is why i still believe in design

seriously. it's been a long time since i've gotten this excited about something. emily pilloton visited the other day for a lecture and day-long workshop with kids in the masters of art in teaching program and design coalition class here at mica. everything she shared about the work she's doing with 11th graders in bertie county through studio h (still in progress) was so inspiring. everything is nitty gritty and local, without any higher objectives or forced scalability. (designing and building cornhole boards, chicken coops, or a farmers market is not something that would fly in every city.) any generative efforts can happen on their own, as all of the lesson plans are open sourced online. check it out!

the final countdown

three more days until the open city opens! yeah...

super sweet poster above by jordan bernier.

finding inspiration in 1972

i ordered this textbook (inquiring about cities) to help me with distilling large concepts about cities into a digestible language for kids. some of it is super strange, but there are definitely some gems hidden inside...

coming soon to an electric box near you...

i'm glad baltimore open city believes in the "it's easier to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission" principle.

masd in good magazine

can schools teach designers how to solve the world's problems? maybe now they'll finally give me that summer design internship? ha...

makes me smile

seeing bits and pieces of the exhibition coming into fruition... our cardboard cutouts of open city advocates (come take pictures with them at the show!) and dan's crazy arsenal of exclusion mural (illustrated by the insanely talented lesser gonzales.)