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“The dream school isn’t a school.” ❤️
One of my lenses is K-12 lens, and this list is important to me. It’s also important that bell hooks comes first, as she references Freire specifically critiquing his attitude to gender especially, challenging him
https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277891278353678336
The dream school isn’t a school.
An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning.
we keep us safe / we teach each other
Considering “the dream school isn’t a school,” an abolitionist and transformative future, and voices that build upon the past while addressing our time, here are two pointers (among so many great options) for additional reading.
1. Akilah S. Richards’s Fare of the Free Child podcast and forthcoming book Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work
https://raisingfreepeople.com/podcast/
https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1145
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2. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s essay “Being with the Land, Protects the Land” and book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
https://abolitionjournal.org/being-with-the-land-protects-the-land-leanne-betasamosake-simpson/?fbclid=IwAR2M8qr9CaeXOLs9q3kaGcCxkrhqnbCveEFCGmrnLE7RHwWiqIDhavHLJFM
https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/as-we-have-always-done
one more from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson: “Land as pedagogy: Nishnaabeg intelligence and rebellious transformation” https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/22170 ”
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“as much as I loved my grad arch school, part of this project needs to be about understanding how the formal/aesthetic aspects of my architectural pedagogy might be deeply racist, or denialist in the privileging of form, concept, agency, design in architectural spaces
design focused on authorship, identity, difference is deeply problematic. It treats space as being about trying to be as “non-fungible” as possible, a “unique product” rather than a living thing that is deeply connected to our notions of community and relation
the notion of “new designs” is also deeply problematic; (I forget whose argument this is)
The focus on newness is a fundamentally market driven understanding of architecture, where value is achieved through distinction from other spaces. Spaces $ because they’re not like others
most of architectural pedagogy is a kind of giant commodity fetishizaton of a space. architecture is valued by a logic that is a logic of the market, not about SPACE ITSELF. How space is monetarily priced becomes how space is valued.
Or in other words: in architecture, instead of really caring about space first, then understanding second that different spaces might have different prices on a real estate market..
we are conditioned to care about space based on how much a profit oriented market pays for it
And the qualities of the market have actually become transmuted into the default pedagogical philosophies of most “”top”” architecture schools. This is what Marx calls reification - things appearing to have inherent ‘properties’ that actually come from social relations
A real estate market being reified into pedagogy would focus on newness and innovation in the studio pinup as a method to have unique and desirable “products” of space, teach implicitly that we should strive to have designs that are different from each other, a product mindset
A property-ist pedagogy influenced by fine art historical (art market) discourse would focus on authorship, and celebrate designers by tossing around their names, or focus on their bodies of work, or focus on the idea of “The Practice”
The commodity-ist architecture pedagogy/discourse that we seem to have is all about space, design, form, concept, all about space itself, focusing on the qualities of the commodity, not its relations, not its participation within an ecology of social relations and politics
Let me be specific: are architects trained for spatial contexts where “not designing anything” is the right answer? NO. Hence the “design a better border wall / design a better prison trap”. What would design pedagogy be if it was open to the possibility of not designing?
And I don’t mean some sort of shitty paper architecture conceptual play (very fun and meaningless tbh). I mean not designing where the “design” is the problematic part, the “architecture as commodity” is the part to transform
What would an architecture school, a spatial school look like, when commodity logics aren’t absorbed and taken as pedagogical logics??
What would an architecture school look like if space was defetishized, seen for what it actually FEELS, SUPPORTS, CREATES between people - and we used that logic of social relations and politics instead?
At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project ..
would result in the entire group just saying thoughtful and nice things about the group’s project. This would be because the whole POINT of the semester would be about learning to facilitate a conversation, to cooperate and listen, and find a consensus around the shared project.
Projects would not be thought of as “design” projects and representations would focus on social systems, politics, emotions, proxemics, rather than just visual aesthetics. Like Fanon’s sociogeny but applied onto space
As the coordinator of an exploratory arch representation course for all M.Archs at Columbia GSAPP, I’m working on this, but want to push it further. Every architectural representation should involve a discussion on the politics of that type of representation.
Not just the politics of renderings, say, but even asking the question: why the fuck is it that in architecture school, pedagogy continues to focus on an examination of even a drawing “about” the building - plans, sections, diagrams, renderings, etc etc
Why do attempts to answer this question often seem to land in a politics-bereft and easily instrumentalized paper architecture that just continues the commodity fetish space, then playing back into boosting architectural representation even further
I know what I’m saying might seem like an “old topic” in arch and the same argument gets rehashed over and over — but I am talking about arch pedagogy’s need to deeply connect to to radical politics and social justice and the pedagogy that would emerge from it
(This is getting strangely long-winded, so I will try to summarize in another thread)
(Actually, I may just have to keep on going for now and summarize later)
tldr: arch pedagogy logic is real estate logic
Context: I’ve been down at #OccupyCityHall / #abolitionplaza for a few days. It feels growing, shining, caring, safe, funny, excited, calm. I remember being at Occupy Wall Street during grad school days. No exaggeration - my understanding of space permanently changed afterwards
A friend - Demitra K - and I, after going to Zuccotti, would go into the @ColumbiaGSAPP studios and tried to tell our friends that going there was so much more important to our architectural education than a studio. We’d coax friends to come
Now I see: the societies that we can envision though OWS and occupy city hall are and have to be abolitionist futures, transformative justice futures, one in which our understanding of space needs to be DEEPLY connected to space, social relations, community care, repair
In a carceral society, our understandings of space are deeply connected to imprisonment, and also property and boundary. How has the PIC wormed its way into our architectural imaginations? How has white supremacy and fear of the Other fundamentally structured space?
At zuccotti, people mostly slept in enclosed tents; at abolition plaza everyone sleeps outside, next to each other. the abolitionist chant is that we keep us safe.
Is this just a coincidence, that the Black-led abolitionist occupation is about sharing space next to each other while the oft white-dominated Occupy was about having enclosed, personal territories?
IN ANY case, back to pedagogy. If we understand and see what space can ACTUALLY finally be about, then pedagogy needs to shift - from commodity pedagogy to transformative justice pedagogy
What would a transformative justice spatial pedagogy look like day to day, in its practice, not in theory? Some thoughts:
(caveat: I am still learning and I imagine that many people are probably doing this Work already. I can see how much more I can learn and am excited for it)
1. No final reviews. architectural review culture is real estate product culture. Communal collaboration culture would like discussing, listening, laughing, exploring. https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1277849313616502784
At this school, the anticapitalist, the antiracist, decolonialist, abolitionist, transformative justice school of my dreams, our dreams, design projects would not result in a jury or a critic. Instead, you would have a group that you’re working with, and the end of the project ..
When you finish a project you should feel like you collaborated or facilitated an great time working on a hard project with people. Reviews being performances is deeply deeply problematic, the more we think about it.
2. No fucking grades. Not only do grades get in the way of learning, GRADING CULTURE IS COP CULTURE https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272275976454537216
It is absolutely wild and unjust that in many/most schools, you can be *expelled* for having bad grades.
Imagine that you were on a hike on a mountain with a group. The group says: if you fall behind, we will kick you out of our group and leave you behind. Is this a good group? https://twitter.com/av_rose_ev/status/1271978534001471490
In the grad students I’ve had in the past 6 years of teaching, SO Amuch of my teaching has been about undoing harm and trauma around grades so that we can actually LEARN and explore as a group, not as a coercive student-teacher power dynamic
At least, that’s what my own teaching has _attempted_, about pushing against grading culture within an already toxic environment of high pressure architecture Ivy League grad school.
(This isn’t a subtweet of GSAPP specifically, which at least has pass fail and a reportedly more thoughtful studio culture compared to other organizations, but an indictment of something endemic across Architectural Discourse and capA architectural pedagogy)
3. Spatial designs aren’t visual ones. Aesthetics and vision are de-emphasized. Architectural image culture is real estate commodity culture.
4. Projects aren’t expected to be “new” and “original”, nor are they expected to be historical. Architectural projects aren’t compared between each other, or at least done so to avoid commodity culture. Architectural newness culture is commodity branding culture.
5. Architecture teachers (if they exist) have roles based on the ideal ways that space is collectively altered:
facilitator-trainers (collaboration),
engineers (building &planning),
movement organizers (supporting & maintaining),
‘play’ers (joy, pleasure, connection)
6. Group classes (if they exist) are structured like collective research practices, specifically so that each person’s work benefits and enriches everyone else’s https://twitter.com/dantaeyoung/status/1272396060623765504
oriented in the same direction, like a school of fish, trying to find something together. oriented outwards, as if we are exploring a city of thought and agree to meet back in a few hours, with photos and notes of things we’ve discovered.
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(And I actually have specifc actionable ideas on how to structure a class like this, using Zoom and collaboration tools for the fall semester, and am planning my classes this way. Happy to share more)
The Jigsaw learning technique, developed as a racial desegregation learning practice in 1971 in the US, or @niloufar_s’s lab’s idea of a Hive collective formation process http://niloufar.org/publications/2018/HIVE_CSCW2018.pdf are inspiring me lately for ways to think about this kind of pedagogy and play
7. (should be #1 but I had thought it was too obvious)
The pedagogy curriculum is grounded in reading anti-racist, decolonialist, abolitionist thought, especially by Black feminist writers, being able to deeply SEE spaces of a deeply problematic history and a yearned-for future
every thought I read and encounter and learn from is personally and slowly blowing my mind, and I catch these really powerful glimpses of what that abolitionist future could be
8. Spatial projects are understood to be social, financial, racial, about gender, race, class, education, access, oppression, bias. Where is the STS (Science and Technology Studies) of architecture? (Is geography studies like this? is there a geography “design” studies?)
9. Spatial projects begin the conversation around MAINTENANCE, not construction. I mean: spaces are thought of as maintained ecologies and gardens, not as an environment that is “built”.
@stewartbrand: “A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start”
Thinking about the @The_Maintainers, @shannonmattern on maintenance and care (https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/?cn-reloaded=1), Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s work, and @adriennemaree’s Emergent Strategy, connecting movement work to space
https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/
This is, of course, often feminized labor or termed ‘domestic labor’ and implied to be undesirable; this would be feminist antipatriarchical pedagogy, classes or reading groups would discuss how spatial discourse & pedagogy has been deeply distorted and limited by the patriarchy
10. At this school, conversations would fundamentally involve talking about space, exclusivity, access. How a space can aesthetically transmit hostility or exclusivity that align and PERFORM with racism and classism https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
Or how binary-gendered bathrooms are a spatial layout that actively construct and reinforce a gender binary, as @QSAPP_ and @QSPACEarch and @melanieh0ff have been thinking about https://twitter.com/autotheoryqueen/status/1273283366079561728
The gender binary is part of the carceral continuum from the bathroom — where trans & non binary people are policed, attacked and arrested — to the prison. Trans liberation is an abolitionist affair.
11. Oh and this should be #2, also too obvious I forgot:
architectural pedagogy would be explicitly grounded in studies and histories of spatial inequality, redlining, displacement, and systematic racism. (Not once in my time in M. Arch school did I learn about Seneca Village!)
Okay. And because I have to go to bed, I will end this list (even though there’s so much more) with my dream of a transformative abolitionist school:
The dream school isn’t a school.
An abolitionist society doesn’t need cops for us to be safe OR schools for us to learn. As bell hooks & Ivan Illich & Paulo Freire write: we can have deschooled society and liberatory & transgressive learning.
we keep us safe / we teach each other
The dream school is a society, a collective — thnking of @melanieh0ff’s heartful, touching Code Societies at @sfpc https://sfpc.io/codesocieties2020/
SFPC | Code Societies Winter 2020
The School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), based in NYC, is a hybrid of school, artist residency and research group where students develop a deep curiosity of what it means to work poetically in…
This transformative architectural “school” or learning society would be about *taking care of a space together.*
Imagine this:
The learning collective is also a community center. We collectively run programs and maintain/change the building.
We learn and discuss how to maintain, update, create community programs. How do we change the space accordingly? We discuss, listen, argue, laugh. We think about social, political, ecological impact. We renovate the building, or try new technologies if they help us serve others.
In this learning community, learning society, we learn about space by… making it. Shaping it. Creating it. Thinking about finances, space, accessibility, budget, anti-racism, decision-making process, transformative conflict resolution, harm repair. And we have fun doing so!
Perhaps this long thread is another way to say: I have been so honored and lucky to have been part of starting and maintaining and GROWing the communal and cooperative spaces of @primeproduce and Soft Surplus, and am grateful for my collaborators in our wild adventures
There are soo many collaborators that I feel like my heart sinks at the prospect of leaving someone out, so I almost do not want to say further and stop speaking for these projects with my voice. I talked a little bit about this here with @willak: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/designer-architect-teacher-and-learner-dan-taeyoung-on-growing-a-cooperative-like-youd-grow-a-garden/
On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
Dan Taeyoung discusses building trust within cooperative spaces, developing open-ended systems, and un-learning hierarchical ways of operating.
But want to shoutout my initial collaborators in @primeproduce, Jerone Hsu &
@mr_tumnus, and Soft Surplus, @melanieh0ff & @_newcubes_ all whom I have laughed and debated and imagined with; whom I have also made mistakes to, disappointed, in my own neverending process of learning.
Starting and growing two spaces and collectives has deeply shifted and structured my understanding about space and architecture and community in powerful, fundamental ways that my schooling did not and was deeply incapable of.
It’s from this context and experience that I (stay up incredibly late and) articulate this vision of a transformative architecture school.. that is anti-racist, that actively works towards repair, and works to abolish the police and jails in our minds, because it GROWS.
spatial culture can be about societal care, about repair, about calling in, about invitation. We can see space as something we want to grow, garden, tend, care for, the way we do with our neighbors and strangers.
Okay, to conclude.
architecture culture and pedagogy can be real estate market culture
OR
spatial culture can be communal culture, play culture, abolition culture, transformative culture.
Which one do we want for our communities? In our neighborhoods? In our imaginations?
FINALLY:
In terms of starting tomorrow, the statement that @bsa_gsapp has written to GSAPP is crucial.
I’m vowing to find ways that I can support these in my role as (adjunct) faculty, integrating these thoughts deeply into my teaching. https://twitter.com/a_l_hu/status/1276639014435590145
The Black Student Alliance at Columbia GSAPP (BSA+GSAPP) has written a powerful statement to the Columbia GSAPP Dean and Administration. The statement is titled, “On the Futility of Listening.” Please read it and sign your name in support!
https://onthefutilityoflistening.cargo.site/
And this powerful statement by the Black faculty of @ColumbiaGSAPP that rightly and justly calls for an examination of anti-Black racism and white supremacy within all modes of it at GSAPP: https://twitter.com/jgmoore/status/1277965117930352640
UNLEARNING WHITENESS
A Statement from the Black Faculty of @Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
https://unlearningwhiteness.cargo.site
Everything I have said above is NOT NEW either! It has already been thought of. The barriers to us approaching this kind of transformative school isn’t because we haven’t thought of it yet. It’s the lack of willingness to actively engage in this work together.
[image (**denotes highlighted passage**): “of unlearning white supremacy. Fifty years ago there were radical actions undertaken by GSAPP students in architecture and planning inspired by the Black Power and Civil Rights movement. **One of those trailblazers, educator/alumni/colleague Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton has narrated in When Ivory Towers were Black how she and classmates forged institutional change, brought Black and Latinx students into the school's disciplines, and initiated community-based design and planning studios that worked with Harlem residents and organizations. And yet by the 1980s those radical pedagogies and curricular changes disappeared within GSAPP as the whiteness of the school's disciplines was reconstituted into new versions of old racist paradigms, discourses, and practices.** It is our belief that unless white supremacy is first, recognized and second, dismantled within this institution, then the goals professed and desired by many of the GSAPP community to eradicate anti-black”]
The real #1 in my list is fundamental - a school should be centered around BIPOC & esp. Black and Indigenous faculty and students, and an understanding of the structural forces & racisms that make schools predominantly white in faculty, and white and East Asian in student makeup”]]>unschooling 2020 dantaeyoung teaching architecture art design pedagogy learning howwlearn howweteach education highered highereducation patriarchy decolonization antiracism transformativejustice socialjustice paulofreire bellhooks canon fredscharmen abolitionism prisonabolition collectivism deschooling conviviality ivanillich occupywallstreet ows race gender ethnicity sexuality stewartbrand sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputing feminism exclusivity grades grading inclusivity genderbinary shannonmattern maintenance care caring society adriennemareebrown carceralcapitalism capitalism competition liberation teachingtotransgress primproduce jeronehsu spacialculture culture listening alhu justingarrettmoore austinwadesmith christopherchavez willaköerner niloufarsalehi themaintainers akilahrichards schools schooling schooliness community communities leannebetasamosakesimpson markets anticapitalism melaniehoff inclusion chegossett lcproject openstudioproject tcsnmy sfsh howwelearn schoolforpoeticcomputationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c65f35764f8b/Reading List | From the Archive: Readings for a Pandemic2020-04-02T17:18:57+00:00
https://placesjournal.org/reading-list/from-the-archive-readings-for-a-pandemic/
robertogrecocoronavirus covid-19 infrastructure pandemics readinglists additivism 2020 place maintenance housing care community publichealth healthcare pandemichttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e719d0ccb1a8/dandan the transient on Twitter: "I see these two found each other, bleh. For the record decolonization is about a return to traditional values and ways of thinking, adaptation to and of tech is a cornerstone of most Native traditions." / Twitter2019-11-10T22:45:44+00:00
https://twitter.com/DanDanTransient/status/1174738599755096065
robertogreco@loisdum I’m convinced it’s a buzz word now with roots in something honorable but has lost its way. Wanting “decolonization” but utilizing the wheel, western technology, doesn’t make sense to me…
My ancestors didn’t see steel and think, “how nice but that’s not traditional.”
No they traded for and adapted it to their needs. The took the improved material and formed it into their traditional (and better) shape (the ulu).
I have any old ulu made out of a food lid that an ancestor made when Russians gave them canned foods.
Natives were often better armed then the US Army, with plains NAtives going from bows to repeater rifles while the cavalry still often used black powder.
(Note in most situations a good bow is better then black powder).
From methodology to material when most tribes found something useful they traded for it and found a way to impRove it for their use.
Adaption, ingenuity, and cleverness are traditional values.
That is why the majority of modern foods (like 87% from one article) originated from precontact Native food science.
Medicine, architecture, leadership, governmental systems, pragmatism, the list goes on, all because we experimented, discovered, and improved.
All that said, the wheel was known by most tribes before contact, and it was surely seen and understood not soon after.
It was deemed for the most part not very useful when we had canoes that could go farther, faster, and with less work.
The wheel requires roads to not only be built, but maintained. Don’t believe me, ask why the military has been trying to develop mechanical legged gear haulers since WW2. Or why hikers aren’t taking trailers on thru hikes.
And tracked vehicles are extremely damaging.
The wheel is great if you want to build and maintain an infrastructure, something pre industrial societies needed cheap or free labor to do the building and maintaining.
Laborers weren’t considered disposable to most Native cultures.
And why even go to that work when a river gets you there twice as fast and a fraction of the work?
Why struggle with a wagon up a mountain pass when a travois will glide along? I know which I’d rather have to repair on the fly.
A better question than “why didn’t Natives build wheels?” is “why did Europeans spend decades blocking, damming, and covering their natural roadways instead of just discovering kayaks and canoes?”
But now we have roads so not taking advantage of that with the wheel would be silly and untraditional.
The environment has been changed and we adapt as we always have.
A lot of folks bringing up “no domesticated beasts of burden” so let me remind you llama, dogs, and horses.
Just cause colonial history taught y’all an entire continent was filled with horses in 30 years from 8 escaped Spanish mounts don’t make it true.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/y815zgfbox6wknk/Collin.Horse.Dissertation.pdf?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR1lLBDf6SD9hl9ivIpGnuN_z7G-mlhtx54wKMpD3QJVqKq1yEptAGDuNI8
Add to your knowledge even European history (though untrustworthy compared to Indigenous history) records that at least 3 Inuit at different times crossed over to England, one of them kayaking into London on a rainy day, all preColombus
We discovered you [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
And Inuit in kayaks crossed into England and back as is recorded in history and story so I mean, there ya go
I guess I should connect these two as one does [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
Ok so I love the positive and informative comments on my wheel thread, but I want to address my favorite flavor of statement that I just couldn’t believe anyone like believed.
Summing them all up “Natives didn’t use the wheel because we didn’t have agricultural societies.”
Ok once I got done laughing at this wrong statement I doubled down on any of them in that I believe pre industrial societies require a system of forced labor to build and maintain roads. Few tribes had that here, laborers weren’t widely accepted as disposable.
I mean like Europeans may have tried for an agricultural society but I think it’s pretty verifiable that the rest of the world was doing it better.
dandan the transient
Like 87% of the world’s food today comes from pre contact American food science, and the majority of the rest came from outside europe.
Now that’s based on articles cause the closest I’ve came to being a scientist is wearing a lab coat and waving a microscope at climate change deniers.
So my numbers may be off, but we still gave the world most of its modern food.
But what I’m not off about is many tribes had flourishing agriculture both in the generally accepted method and in what I would consider non standard.
First in the generally accepted category those dudes in central America like created corn from grass, they weren’t just kinda playing around, they like made something.
Tomatoes are another example of “hey look at this little berry I’m gonna create something the size of an apple.”
Not too mention quinoa, rices, grains, and orchids that covered the land. Just cause Europeans burned a lot of it doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
But let’s go beyond the standard accepted forms because innovation is traditional in both method and thought.
The spread of bear poop filled with huckleberry seeds to increase the amount of plants, clearing one style of tree to make room for more useful trees, clearing brush to prevent damaging fires, or carrying seeds to easier each locations for medicines and craftable plants.
When settlers arrived here they were shocked at the “wild” paradise filled with useful things, it was like forests were engineered to suit the tribes’ needs.
Spoiler it was like that because we engineered it that way.
We did the work.
Their inability to see terraforming for what is was doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. They benefited and continue to benefit from thousands of years of planning and labor.
The fact that we didn’t clear cut trees or make long straight rows to labor over doesn’t mean we weren’t planning out and caring for our lands, it means we were working smarter not harder.
Clearing wide spaces opens the door for erosion and a lack of diversity ruins the soil, increasing salt content and sapping nutrients.
Sure you can rotate crops or haul fertilizer to combat this, but why add that labor when animals and other plants will do it for you?
And let’s remember when thinking about both our ancestors and our place in modern society that: [quoting @DanDanTransient:
Adaption, ingenuity, and cleverness are traditional values.
And I think the environment will agree with me, if your definition of agriculture is limited to back breaking labor that destroys the land than agriculture needs 🚮.
But if your definition can expand to land stewardship that improves the land for human and nonhuman people 👍
And link to the next stage I guess [quoting @DanDanTransient:]
Before someone comes at this with the same energy they did the wheel thread talking about population let’s hit that myth.
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https://twitter.com/Dymaxion/status/1184057421095940096
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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/29/what-it-takes-to-put-your-phone-away
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http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/46
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kikzjTfos0s
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/01/nyregion/transportation-east-coast-vs-west-coast.html
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https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care/
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https://culanth.org/fieldsights/1359-maintenance
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-WWw1wydwI
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oaPfmKrCZRum7sdPOYLNeGH_v0PuKVmna6aiyDBDVpI/edit
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http://cmsw.mit.edu/podcast-nick-seaver-people-day/
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BfEilJUhXP0/
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https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/my-working-will-be-the-work-maintenance-art-and-technologies-of-change/
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https://medium.com/@sts_news/design-thinking-is-kind-of-like-syphilis-its-contagious-and-rots-your-brains-842ed078af29
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