128 Flipping the Future of Architecture

...like to leave a question for the Root Simple Podcast please call (213) 537-2591 or send an email to rootsimple@gmail.com. You can subscribe to our podcast in the iTunes store and on Stitcher. Closing theme music by Dr. Frankenstein. A downloadable version of this podcast is here....

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130 Farm Unfixed with Jessica Rath

...of Design and her previous projects include works about apple breeding, co-evolutionary communication between flowering plants and their pollinators and a long term project called Farm Unfixed that we spend most of this conversation discussing. During the podcast Jessica mentions, Foxfire The meaning of “Unfixed” Nancy Klehm Ozark Regional Land Trust Tending the Wild Braiding Sweetgrass Prescribed burns A Better Nectar Take Me to the Apple Breeder...

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Saturday Tweets: Big and Trainy

...this weird lens flare when trying to document this ridiculous multi-garage situation … pic.twitter.com/2OjTJxMQj3 — Share The Cities (@sharethecities) July 28, 2019 Thrift store shopper scores original drawing by Egon Schiele https://t.co/F9R1WDVFz1 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) July 29, 2019...

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Office to Kayak

...g Greenlandic-style kayak. He has thoughtfully posted the project as an Instructable so that we can all make our own “Contingency Research Platform.” Judging from the huge amount of post-bureacratic flotsam at my local Habitat for Humanity store, there’s a lot of potential in turning office furniture into building materials. You should also check out his hilarious low-fi, DIY GoPro. For more thoughts on building Greenlandic kayaks, Hartley suggest...

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