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• I am combining three important things in this workshop:
  • Climate Design
    • Utilize drawdown? or un goals? for initial content
  • Meaning Making
  • Free Culture
    • utilize flickr commons for images, velvetyne (et al) for type?
    • We will be sharing files with each other?
• This workshop needs a name.

1. Workshop
   1. Free Culture > In The Beginning Culture was Free!
      1. Design Tools/elements
         1. Flickr Commons
         2. Typography And Open Source
      2. Vernacular
         1. Stewart Brand and How Buildings Learn
            • How Buildings Learn excerpt as part of a readings packet!
   2. Climate Designer
      1. Project Drawdown
      2. UN Sustainable Development Goals
   3. Clear, Easily Iterative Deliverables
      1. Posters
         1. Some sort of series?
            • why posters?
            • can "posters" be interpreted in some way?
         2. 2 posters – the posters are in communication with one another?
            • Reuse my poster project prompt from AD1 w/ sandie and isaac?
         3. 3 posters – they are iterative? they build on one another?
2. Readings
   1. Refernce the AD1 Invisible Cities readings?
   2. AD1 Grating exercises readings?
   3. The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem / http://fromkeetra.com/Downloads/TheEcstacyOfInfluence_JonathanLethem.pdf / https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence/?single=1
   4. Writing Bodies, Litia Perta
3. Questions
   1. What is it?
   2. When is this from?
   3. Where is this from?
   4. Who made this?
   5. What made this?
   6. What is so great about this?
   7. What drew you to this?
   8. Why does this exist?
   9. How do we create meaning?
   10. How do we decide what is "good enough" to give to another person? and does that matter?
   11. How do you reinvent the visual presentation of a familiar product?
   12. How do we discover new ways to reimagine and promote common forms?

• Manifesto?
  • Mind Essential Principles
• Speculative Design
  • Any potential readings from Speculative Everything?
  • If this is speculative, and about our climate, does it matter what time in the future we're speculating about?
    • The year 2025
    • The year 2030
    • The Year 2050
  • What kind of future?
    • a Dystopian Future
    • a Utopian Future
• There is no wrong way to translate your favorite inspiration into a kit or tool. Make wildly poetic leaps or stay near the source. If you create a work that acts as a tried and true homage with clear reference to it’s origin, consider crediting that origin in a notable way. For further thoughts on influence, appropriation, and the like, check out The Ecstasy of Influence, Jonathan Lethem.
  • From Keetra Dean Dixon's 2018 Flex workshop handout...