November 24, 2007
Reading for November 27th, are now posted. Enjoy!
October 2, 2007
To upload your thoughtless acts, create a new assignment page like any other lab. You'll see "Thoughtless Acts" listed as one of the assignment options.
May 24, 2008
This site has been archived and is no longer editable. Stay tuned for the next version, coming in the fall!
Thoughtless acts: all of those intuitive ways we adapt, exploit, and react to things in our environment; things we do without really thinking.
Here you see a grad student in the iSchool lounge adapting to the space given. The table acts as a footrest and the lap as a table:
Here you see patrons of The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective improvising a solution to to make up for the lack of seating available; they are sitting on the median in the middle of the street across from the restaurant. The man in the foreground is also using the tree as a backrest:
My apartment has a very small kitchen with very little counter space. When my roommate and I were both cooking I had all of my stuff sprawled out so she had nowhere to chop her carrots. Here you see her (sporting her iSchool t-shirt) improvising a solution to this problem by co-opting the stool as a makeshift counter:
I love my bamboo Lollapalooza '07 t-shirt but it's not supposed to be put in the dryer. Since I don't have a clothes drying rack I improvised by co-opting my bookshelf and laying the wet t-shirt on top of a pillow (so it wouldn't drip on any of my books) resting on my bookshelf:
