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Is there such a thing as improv making? I don’t mean improvise a design for a clear goal but make something interesting with what’s on hand. Like in improv theater or jazz. Unpredictable outcome. You might end up with a clock or a robot.
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Like Chopped but not restricted to edible output? Making It with Nick Offerman / Amy Poehler comes close but output is all art/craft. Feel like it would be tricky to truly release constraints without providing way too much optionality in materials / tools.
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that's the joy of lego. you just have a bunch of everything and start putting two things together and suddenly you're feeling it out, end up with a random <helicopter>
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its easy to imagine this in adjacent fields like art and crafts generally. It seems like a process limitation: some things need preplanning. for freeform you need to be able to build incrementally if you want to be able to not see where you're going and expect a good result
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Project runway maybe? I guess it depends on whether you consider their design challenges "a clear goal." Seems to me they are pretty open ended, e.g. "make a dress out of this stuff"