RafaelFajardo

Tag: critical toys

  • Play

    Co-housing facilitates the interaction among neighbors, providing social, practical, economic and environmental benefits. Co-housing communities build social capital – and encourages more sustainable and fun behaviors. The simple act of eating together on a regular basis is a strong catalyst: As architect and founder of the Seattle Schemata Cohousing Project, Grace Kim says: (FastCompany, 2017):…

  • BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE

    Source: BORDERWALL AS ARCHITECTURE The book and its drawings date from circa 2016. The actualization of the teeter-totter occurred in late July of 2019. The subsequent photos and videos documenting the action/intervention in ANAPRA, near Ciudad Juarez / El Paso, have gone viral. The author, Ronald Rael, is a professor of architecture at UC Berkeley.…

  • Ronald Rael on Instagram: “One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from…”

    One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from 2009 in an event filled with joy, excitement, and togetherness at the borderwall. The wall became a literal fulcrum for U.S. – Mexico relations and children and adults were connected in meaningful ways…

  • LEGO experiments at SparkFun

    A member of the SparkFun team is experimenting with robotics and LEGO bricks beyond the confines of the Mindstorm branded products. It will bear fruit to pay attention to their explorations. https://www.sparkfun.com/news/2973?utm_content=97808166

  • speculative product design hammer as a service

    speculative product design, Hammer as a Service https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPFoxZnusz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1utb4oq11utu7

  • #2yrsago A modern rebuild of the Radio Shack 150-in-One electronics kit

    mostlysignssomeportents: While looking into the Kano snap-together learning computer kit (Kickstarted in 2013, reviewed here last January) I got to thinking about Radio Shack’s classic, much-loved 150-in-One Electronics Kit, which occupied literal years of my time when I was a boy. That took me on a journey to Gareth Branwyn’s 2010 Make piece about scratch-building…

  • Watson Maker Kits

    Watson Maker Kits a kind and friendly face for AI experimentation

  • Strange Toys – remotedevice.net

    Strange Toys – remotedevice.net Jeff Watson has written a poetic critical meditation on our current moment in time and the work of those of us who make toys and other entertainments. Worth your time.

  • This incredible soft robot needs no batteries or computer chips

    This incredible soft robot needs no batteries or computer chips another step in the evolutionary path of soft robots

  • If Mattel has such a right or obligation, should recordings be prescreened before they are uploaded to servers for Mom and Dad to hear? In some cases, “That sounds like something you should talk to a grown-up about” may be appropriate, but what if the child already is talking to a grown-up – the one…