futurecraft

hope you enjoyed mako’s amazing talk! for next week, either (1) learn to how to make something new from an on-line resource and post the results or (2) post instructions on-line for someone else to learn something from you. you can do it on your blog, or post directly to instructables. here are some sites to look at for inspiration, although you’re free to get it elsewhere:

http://www.instructables.com/home

http://openprosthetics.org/

http://youtube.com/user/makemagazine

http://ladyada.net/make/index.html

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/diy/diy.html

wednesday’s class will be on open source and open design, with a talk by ubuntu’s own mako hill! so if you don’t know what open source is, look it up. please read these two texts on the potential of sharing ideas:

Episodes of Collective Invention (Peter B. Meyer, August 2003)

Fab (Neil Gershenfeld, 2005)

and remember to dissect a product and teach us something about it!

please bring your laptop to class if you have one. and please take a look at these short readings:

“On the Division of Labor” from: Smith, Adam, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London:MEthuen and Co., Ltd., ed. Edwin Cannan, 1904. Fifth Edition. First Published 1776.

“Ornament and Crime” from: The Arts of Popular Culture in the Shadow of Adolf Loos, edited by Bernie Miller and Melony Ward, XYZ Books, 2002.