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S. 1 Ep. 7 – Back to School with Shelby Doyle
1 hour 32 minutes Posted Aug 28, 2019 at 3:00 pm.
Steve has a theory...
What a way to start a podcast!
Shelby drove 2.5 hours to be here... for this?
Debate over who is a millennial
Old millennials remember a time before the internet
Traveling the world before smart phones
Problems predicting the future
Science fiction and predicting the future based on the present
The privilege of being without media
Transformations in communication
Informal communication and sending emojis to clients
"gif" or "jif" let's settle this what about the peanut butter?
What is a scotcheroo??
How did Shelby get into architecture?
Finding a niche with computational design
Is a "parametric moment" kind of like a "digital turn"?
Shelby talks about digital craft
Changes in the architect's deliverable
Shelby talks about teaching digital fabrication
The importance of trade knowledge
Ethical and moral implications of technology transformations
How did Shelby end up in Iowa?
Thinking carefully about the moments we choose to use technology
Technology is a hearts and minds game
It is important to understand the current state when preparing for transformation
Shelby explains that there is a myth that technology is somehow unknowable
Struggle to bring people on board with new things
Teaching methods related to computation
Maybe there should be a crumpled paper tool in LunchBox
Bringing in outside expertise into the classroom
What was the biggest challenge in starting the Shelby's ISU computation curriculum?
Discussion about women in architecture and equity
It is hard to not re-perform your own education in the classroom
Shelby discusses "Computational Feminism"
Data is not neutral
Challenges and over-simplification with "optimization"
The digital panopticon
What are the disconnects between academia and practice?
Architecture is not about singular authorship
Critique of the trades mentoring model
Shelby has a crazy good voronoi joke
Student loans suck
Shelby asks if there are things Proving Ground wishes students had coming out of school
The difficulty in teaching when things are changing so fast
WTF is post digital?
Nate is legitimizing post digital by always shitposting about it.
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The group discusses digital transformations taking place in architecture schools, the tension between academia and practice, women in architecture, computational feminism, alternate dimensions, and our reality being a simulation - wow, things got trippy this time!
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The end! Byyyeee!
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