AmosLightnin

5 hours into the audiobook of The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow and it is fantastic! happy to share the file if anyone wants, its 600mbs.

This is a good, hopeful, insightful read:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/20/rightwingers-us-social-change-coming

FYI: the piece talks about right-wingers, but the context is such that I don't think a content warning is even necessary.

"Perhaps, a less formulaic approach to language can benefit social science, which might also consider whether it is sometimes art and not always science." -Shaun McNiff

Imagine a screen in the library showing a current question, from something the Atelier is working on - such as "Does anyone know about sustainable laundry detergents?" when we're testing out a heatbox that makes the drier more efficient. Someone walking by knows about it, then goes up to wherever the project is, and says "I know a little about that - what do you need?"

Prototype for a device for pixelart mediated by people's synesthetic perception of candy and color. #tinkering

Gemini, a pi based videoconferencing system for remote design work I built during the last corona wave. #tinkering

"Moreover, it has long been suggested that innovation and social learning might be linked, and could coevolve, and that these processes may play a role in driving brain evolution " - Social Learning (2013), Hoppit and Laland. Fascinating to think of how the need to rank and independently evaluate each individual in school seems to lead to isolation and age segregation, which works against innovation and probably intelligence. School shrinks kid's brains.

The culmination of a morning of research into movement and friction. #tinkering

@lilmungo@twitter.com shared some of his Reggio-inspired documentation of playful learning in a talk for colleagues at Dokk1 last night. I was struck by how enabling a child to develop the skill of inquiry often requires suppressing the instinct to correct their mistakes or misinterpretations. Process wise, a correction can easily shift them from self-driven inquiry to accepting what an expert says. Both are important, but developing the former is more difficult. #tinkering

We made a cowboy that rides our vacuum cleaner "Dusty." He triggers the sensor with his leg and turns him when you yell "yee haw!" or when he sees he's gonna crash. #tinkering

@sean You make a good point, and I can't claim my use case is likely to be very common. In fact, my ideal import would also copy and preserve the existing time stamp from the original, so hopefully it wouldn't even show up on people's timelines. It'd be a bit like importing an old database into a new one, making the text, hashtags, and attached videos / photos searchable via the fediverse, but not likely to be seen otherwise.

@sean I've been needing something like that for a long while, to pull old tweets I made as a kind of public design notebook onto my pleroma instance. Seems like it'd be a great utility for anyone migrating away from corporate social media.

Playing with radiometers in the Ray of Light atelier in Reggio Emilia, Ben Mardell and I wondered if we could make a more tinkerable version using mason jars and a vacuum pump as part of Playing with the Sun https://hedge.amosamos.net/s/xfKYsI81H# #tinkering

Colleagues from Dokk1 Library playing in an interactive installation by Gerhard Funk, part of Future Inventors, a project at the Leonardo da Vinci Science Center in Milan.

In Reggio I'm often struck by the beauty of children's artwork. It reflects not only the creativity and intelligence of the children but also the environment - esp. the reverence for creativity - maintained by the teachers. #tinkering

In Reggio there is a deep attention to aesthetic experience. I notice that this seems to influence myself and others psychologically, inviting an open, reverent, and often playful mindset. #tinkering

This week in Reggio Emilia I visited Orologio, a library and after-school center, with colleagues from IMC and Dokk1. The prominence of documentation of children's research in the space supports a culture of creative inquiry and exploration. #tinkering

Preventing cat burglars with #MakeyMakey and #Scratch. #tinkering

Lander's homemade marble run. #tinkering

Lander's mechano sword thrower. #tinkering

Heisenberg remarked, "We could clearly sense that he [Bohr] had reached his results [the theory of atomic structure] not so much by calculation and demonstration as by intuition and inspiration. . . . Quantum theory thus provides us with a striking illustration of the fact that we can fully understand a connection though we can only speak of it in images and parables." From Paul Tatter's The Role of Esthetic Processes in Cognition. #tinkering

@pixouls Glad you like it. I'm using this instance kind of like an open design notebook.

Covered a solar drawing machine with Velcro to make it easy to reposition components. Promising. #tinkering

Maximum tinkerability in terms of ability to reposition motors on this solar drawing machine, using Velcro.

At the shared drawing table creative learners encounter one another's ideas. They take the inspiration from their peers back to their worktable. #tinkering