Thinking beyond our modern conception of comfort.

Learn about the latest testing and assembly progress of my half-functional smart cooking machine!

This final post of “The Borders of Boston” takes us through our M.Arch thesis project, the synthesis of our months of exploring, eating, volunteering, and reflecting. ‘A taste of home’ is a thesis that explores the food landscape in Boston through the lens of the immigrant experience.

it’s pronounced zine not zine

Mexico City feels like a forest, roots and green bursting out of every corner, this palimpsest of a city has been, for some time now, devouring itself.

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here’s a little purim/pesach celebration for you

How do patterns start? Where do they begin? Questions about Tiny-Z’s choices and exertion of machine choice

What is black space? We still don’t fully know. But here’s pt. 3!

do yourself a favor and go listen to “Mta” by the Kingston Trio after reading this

Learn about the initial smart cooking machine assembly and individual components testing.

In this post, the authors each sought out volunteering opportunities with local free food provision organizations to see first-hand a different kind of border many people across the city encounter—that of food scarcity.

Pt. 2 of the dialogue - what is black space?

As we enter our last year, we are synthesizing our learnings on the interrelated topics of energy use, material resources, and environmental design.

If we broaden our historical lens and view multiple decades as a singular historical moment, the Jacquard loom has indeed become one of the most influential inventions in our modern history. This week, we will look at how a piece of weaving equipment directly inspired the first computer, changing the way humans navigate through the world.

Continuing to draw without lifting the pencil between strokes, it is exciting to see where the Tiny-Z goes first - the initial mark across the paper feels confident, not hesitant like the way it felt before when the pencil moved to just the right spot, then finally plunged onto the page. This movement builds momentum, the patterns that follow feel like I had nothing to do with them. The images here are another series of comparative drawings, which use at least one shared layer between the two drawings. By layering patterns and seeing hatches turning into paths, we test registration and mixing lines from a more extensive library into nearly infinite combinations.

"In neighborhoods where mostly single people live, the tea comes in bags. Beşiktaş is a special case: There, they drink coffee instead.”

Traditionally known as the paper collectors (kağıt toplayıcıları) among other names, the informal recycling workers of Turkey walk four to twenty kilometers a day, pulling their heavy loaded cart to earn their bread out of trash. They form a patchy network, often invisible by circumstance and by design.

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