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		<title>Beautiful Accidents</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rendered the wrong layers preparing for my thesis review and this popped up. Thought it was nice.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2012/01/beautiful-accidents/</link>
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		<title>In About a Month</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By the look of things I have around a hundred hours of rhinoceros work left to do, but the design of the four thesis speculations are there. The final cities for the workshop framework are Baltimore, DC, Philly, and the wildcard: New Orleans. John Hong likes it, I like it, I am going to pass. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work Updates (!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Updated a couple of projects that were under patent consideration by MIT. They are important links to my future work and I am still very excited about them. Check out Palimpost and Awware.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2011/12/work-updates/</link>
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		<title>Making America p.2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recent movements in fashion and product design have given way to what I will call the material rugged, or a new viability for the less-produced (as opposed to mass-produced) American brand. These products focus on quality over quantity, or ruggedness, that is a reflection of a balance between traditional and innovative techniques, skilled craftsmanship, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making America p.1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My working thesis is interested in how differentiated production, in the form of small workshops, can contribute to the re-urbanization, education and growth of a new American productivity. The project addresses the topic at three scales. First, given the recent re-emergence of small-scale production and making, with a renewed interest in quality over quantity, how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2011/12/making-america-p-1/</link>
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		<title>IDEO + Harvard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple of months my friend David and I have been working for IDEO with Harvard SEAS and GSD on a design thinking workshop for engineers. I am pretty excited to announce that it is happening the week of 13 January in Cambridge. It just so happens to be the same week of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2011/11/ideo-harvard/</link>
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		<title>The Immaturity of Skills</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Immanuel Kant in Berlinische Monatsschrift, 1784: Enlightenment is mankind&#8217;s exit from its self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to make use of one&#8217;s own understanding without the guidance of another. Self-incurred is this inability; if its cause lies not in the lack of understanding but rather in the lack of resolution and the courage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2011/11/the-immaturity-of-skills/</link>
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		<title>The Big Switch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his 2008 book, a history from Edison to Google, Nicholas Carr provides an interesting insight: All technological change is generational change. The full power and consequence of a new technology are only unleashed when those who have grown up with it become adults and begin to push their parents to the margins. As the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.woodandplastic.com/2011/05/the-big-switch/</link>
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		<title>Bauhaus Reconstruct</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Aaron G. took apart and remade the Mies masterpiece. The steel mass that makes the cantilever possible is full of 300lbs lead shot. It turned out quite nice.]]></description>
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		<title>Open House (Service?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some action this morning regarding a collaboration between Droog (love) and DSR (not so much). Allison Arieff published an editorial criticizing the project as short sighted and Renny Ramakers of Droog quickly responded. I agree with Arieff&#8217;s analysis regarding the programming of the Open Houses. However, I think Droog&#8217;s polemic response is correct as well. [...]]]></description>
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