public Project Notes • 10 min read Notes, 2023-04-24 Hillary Predko on the history of Hydro-Quebec, a state-run utility that built out a fossil fuel-free electricity system in the 1960s.…
public Project Notes • 5 min read Notes, 2023-04-17 Over the first five years of its existence, this newsletter averaged around six hundred and fifty words per issue, a…
public Project Notes • 9 min read Notes, 2023-04-10 Hillary Predko on the inverse relationship between building a makerspace and building anything else, and Apple's forays into production in India.…
public Project Notes • 12 min read Notes, 2023-04-03 Spencer Wright on jobsites, workshops, and mechanical wisdom.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read Notes, 2023-03-27 Hillary Predko on the infrastructural sublime, the Svalbard seed vault, and Buckminster Fuller's World Game.…
public Project Notes • 7 min read Notes, 2023-03-20 Sean Kelley on design for maintenance, the logistics of a $5 footlong, and hurricane-rated windows.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read Notes, 2023-02-27 TW Lim on an intractable issue: making physical things is still often dirty, dangerous, or demeaning.…
public Project Notes • 9 min read Notes, 2023-02-20 Natasha Balwit-Cheung on the interplay between the built world and the passage of time.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read Notes, 2023-02-13 Hillary Predko on buildingsheds, reducing carbon emissions from steel production, and anonymously authored designs.…
public Project Notes • 7 min read Notes, 2023-02-06 lee wilkins on the intersections of textiles and computing, historical media storage, and liquid mirror telescopes.…
public Project Notes • 8 min read Notes, 2023-01-30 Kelly and Anna Pendergrast on rising to the challenges wrought by disasters, corralling invasive carp, and subsea cable chokepoints.…