Came up with an excellent new use case for @RoamResearch
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.pic.twitter.com/4Dw0R4DlSs
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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.
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).
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”
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Projects and equipment are as much the object of research as the means.
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 @basicmansion project. That story for another day.
Thanks to @theartlav @NickPinkston @niftynei @Ralph90397024 @ZachaReid etc for inspiring this escapade. Let the hapless hackery commence.
Hate to use the phrase but there’s a “critical practice of materiality” aspect here, and some inspiration from STS folks like @scrivenix
Forgot to mention @chenoehart among inspiration sources.
Everybody I acknowledge/thank as this project evolves will also be on the blame list if things go wrong 
Realizing I need to organize software/apps I use for this stuff at least as much as hardware and physical space.
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