Came up with an excellent new use case for
It’s an excellent way to organize a complex descendant of the lab notebook/equipment logs etc. The Ribbonfarm Junkspace lab is getting its act together.
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I was wondering what to call whatever the hell I’m doing here and decided to call it a Junkspace Lab, inspired by, but not entirely in harmony with, the Rem Koolhaas essay. If Roam releases fpermission management features I’ll consider making this public (possibly paywalled 🤑)
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Projects organized into programs, of which repair/replace is the soul of the party. The equipment/infrastructure side is as important as the projects. I’ll maintain a biography for major pieces of equipment and instruments, tracking their evolutionary use. “How equipment ages”?
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This should be fun. Getting slightly organized and plugging this activity into my other stuff should help make it sustainable.
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The design of this is partly inspired by Pablo Neruda’s house in Valparaiso, which I toured a few years ago. Every piece in it has a story attached. That, but with a postmodern Junkspace aesthetic. And an engineering research space rather than literary embodied memory.
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Though I’ve spent over a decade working in university/industry labs, I’m not much of a hands-on lab guy. I was usually doing theory, modeling and simulation on the margins (though I did do *some* lab work and TAed a lab course in the late 90s for 3 semesters).
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But this is not a traditional lab. Or a maker space. Or a hobby. Or a hacker space. Or god forbid a design/art studio 😬
I’m thinking of it as “stack research” 😎.
Projects and equipment are as much the object of research as the means.
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If it outgrows the 20 sf I can spare in my home office... who knows, I may lease a bit of lab space in post-Covid dystopia of cheap commercial real estate. 😇
This has also been retconned into project. That story for another day.
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Thanks to @Ralph90397024 etc for inspiring this escapade. Let the hapless hackery commence.
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Hate to use the phrase but there’s a “critical practice of materiality” aspect here, and some inspiration from STS folks like
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Forgot to mention among inspiration sources.
Everybody I acknowledge/thank as this project evolves will also be on the blame list if things go wrong 😆
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Realizing I need to organize software/apps I use for this stuff at least as much as hardware and physical space.
