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February: our first field recording for a house at Perkins. Audio quality is not great, but it brings me back; chatting with Charlotte, discovering the road and the water, rushing water at the dam, and the clucks and honks of geese echoing in the open air over the frozen river.

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Little experiment with blur and pixelation together

Honestly, who knows...

Created this resource list for the class I just spoke to. I remember just four years ago I spent so much time trying to figure out how to connect architecture and disability. Now the connections seem so clear and abundant. Feeling grateful for everyone whose work taught me to make them.

Showed this photo in a presentation today on critical access and disability aesthetics for Nima Javidi’s class “Forms of Accessibility” at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. It’s a fragment of a concrete map from my thesis project, with holes representing moments of absence in the existing city. The cast is fragile, so as you run your hand over the map it is wiped away, creating an imperceptible tactile surface with only the moment of absence remaining.

An image of two hands holding a concrete panel with a white hole in it. The panel is cast concrete and the hole is 3D printed, like a trunacated cone inset into the material. There is a rough bitmap texture etched into the concrete but it looks very fragile and irregular, like the image could be wiped away at any moment. And you can see a bitmap of the city and a subway line. it's a map of a piece of the San Francisco Bay Area, and the map depicts imagined futures / moments of absence and desire for the city.

Great first day at the National Federation for the Blind Conference with Hannah Wong, promoting a new pre-college architecture program for blind students. Learn more at BDWBoston.com

A photograph of Hannah, a Chinese-American woman with Albinism wearing all black and standing at a tactile table. She is gesturing with her arms towards a set of tactile architecture models and a lump of unsculpted air-dry clay for a co-designed architecture model we will be making tomorrow.

Unfriendly complaint to Apple from today.

Have been keeping track of who I’ve been complaining to, about what, and how. My complaining skills are definitely improving, I think! Here is a complaint sent to the MBTA today.

Was making some artwork tests for a new project.

This is the cover for my project. The title is Of Our Own Making in a pixelated font that is stretched out in a glitchy way. The text is difficult to read and horizontally stretched..

Sketch for a house at Perkins

It's a house, sort of a sketchy one. The background is black and it's drawn in white, brushy pen. It's got a pitched roof, and it's cut so you can see inside of it. It's sort of ambiguous whether it's a hosue or a model. There are trees on either side, other houses, but also things like a big light and diffuser as if there's a heliodon over it. There are a few little circles in the front that represent listening cones. And the edge of it is a little ambiguous - how thick it is. Some it has the openness that all sketches have, so it's still very loose and open to possibility. There are some arrows coming off the roof, as if the roof can be pulled off, like you would in a rough test model. And overall it feels like a housey house, drawn in darkmode.

Initial sketch for a house near Perkins

New draft of a piece of writing on Apple’s “I’m Not Remarkable Ad” - being a crip killjoy, but for good reason, I think… Not sure if I’ll publish or just needed to write it.

Starting to collect some images around low resolution . They don’t quite hold together and some different categories, beyond resolution, are emerging. For example, darkness, blur, and haze don’t seem to be about resolution primarily.

Chat with Jean Hewitt (author of U.K. Standard PAS 6463: Design for the Mind) today about how something goes from a need expressed by a disabled person to a standard that ends up on an architect’s desk.

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Rode in my first Waymo this week. As my friend Andrew said, it felt “totally wild, and then, almost instantly normal.”

Tried to study how color changes on camera with distance, using this Ellsworth Kelley building at UT Austin. I must’ve tapped the flip button at some point, so instead I ended up with a lot of photos of my forehead.

Have been thinking about different flavors of low resolution lately; blur in Ann Hamilton’s work, Ann Gale’s brushy pixelation, to projects like 44 Low Resolution Houses, which defines “low resolution” as loose, rough construction. More on this later…

Anyways, here is a tiny radish, blown up and repainted.

Sent out an advocacy email today about a survey around architecture school accreditation.