{"id":25642,"date":"2011-02-18T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/here-it-is-this-years-theme-less-yammering\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:37:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:37:50","slug":"here-it-is-this-years-theme-less-yammering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/here-it-is-this-years-theme-less-yammering\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-25642 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/here-it-is-this-years-theme-less-yammering\/attachment\/25643\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_lgtjblJTCj1qbup7mo1_500-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Here it is. This year\u2019s theme: Less Yammering. More Hammering.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain. In the recently deceased year, we spent the bulk of our informal projects time talking about things that were *more than interesting to us.<\/p>\n<p>It was more than interesting. Supra-interesting. Boundless interestingness. I\u2019m talking mostly about, well \u2014 talking about #designfiction. And this will continue as a theme within whatever theme happens to be the theme-of-the-day.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, the yammering meant there was less time (despite having it on the list of the Professional Development Plan) actually making things. Now \u2014 I love to talk and have conversations around engaging, new, whacky-but-intriguing ideas. That\u2019s the guano of innovation. It\u2019s how things change, grow, evolve. Ideas come to life in the conversations. The conversations are that which promote and propagate; they contain the narrative logics that poke and prod and stretch and materialize those thoughts, making them more tangible and more legible. So \u2014 I love to yammer. As you may know \u2014 I also really love to hammer: to make things that are distillations and materializations of those conversations. Little props and provocative objects that help think-through and evolve those conversations.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago the Laboratory wrote a tremendously short essay called Why Things Matter in which I ham-fistedly explained my thinking about the importance of \u201csocial objects\u201d and the ways that these can become as yammer-y as normal human beings and, thereby, bring about material change to the world. It was most an interest in how things like Pigeons or Salmon suddenly connected to the *network in oftentimes simple ways could alter the terms of conversations about things like environmental issues, pollution or fishing legislation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I learned through that was the importance of making things \u2014 but it\u2019s not just the made-thing but the making-of-the-thing, if you follow. In the *making you\u2019re also doing a kind of thinking. Making is part of the \u201cconversation\u201d \u2014 it\u2019s part of the yammering, but with a good dose of hammering.<\/strong> If you\u2019re not also making \u2014 you\u2019re sort of, well..basically you\u2019re not doing much at all. You\u2019ve only done a *rough sketch of an idea if you\u2019ve only talked about it and didn\u2019t do the iteration through making, then back to thinking and through again to talking and discussing and sharing all the degrees of *material \u2014 idea, discussions, conversations, make some props, bring those to the discussion, *repeat.[emphasis added] (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2011\/01\/27\/youd-be-right-to-wonder\/\">Near Future Laboratory \u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb You\u2019d Be Right To Wonder<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is. This year\u2019s theme: Less Yammering. More Hammering. Let me explain. In the recently deceased year, we spent the bulk of our informal projects time talking about things that were *more than interesting to us. It was more than interesting. Supra-interesting. Boundless interestingness. I\u2019m talking mostly about, well \u2014 talking about #designfiction. 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