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The diptych structure allows ‘new’ histories to be worked on, constructed, experienced, born, reborn, modified, deleted, and demolished. The device becomes a means for giving shape to and creating proximal relationships in the pursuit of existential investigations. A cast of characters ceaselessly interacting, the devices develop personalities over time (bunker blades disseminating decoys as they discretely hijack and falsify data, current can(n)ons taking core samples of water movements, panoptic surface tracers calculating the island’s edge and denoting any shifts in horizon, prophetic evidence harvesters negotiating historical impetuses and searching for what lies in waiting, remembering what has yet to come). Thus, degrees of separation from the ‘original’ history become inescapable and inevitable as imagined and unforeseen realms take front stage.

Systems exist in objects, nature, and social structures. Mischievous Gizmo looks for a way to unfold and deconstruct these systems and create a device that works differently from its original conditions. It is a chimera of systems and the mismatch of its components create opportunities for constructive imaginations. The reconstructed system, with a fine grain of local linkages, is a continuously connected, intricate structure that works in a way that totality or whole is operative. Mischievous Gizmo also probes the design process and categorizes it in six pillars: 1) On Element, 2) On Situation, 3) On Antiquities, 4) On (Relational) Articulation, 5) On Construct, and 6) On Application. ‘On Element’ looks at components creating systems at smaller scales. It presents opportunities to be taken over or to be re-assigned new attributes. ‘On Situation’ reorganizes elements in different manners, creating opportunities to restructure through local connections. ‘On Antiquities’ finds existing arrangements that can be integrated into the restructured construct. ‘On (Relational) Articulation’ intertwines the ingredients found in ‘On Antiquities’ into a construct. ‘On Construct’ organizes all elements in such a way that clues presented in the restructured construct have enough but are not expressive. This balanced, spatial construct provides constructive gaps that allow creative thinkers to imagine their own ideas. Finally, ‘On Application’ examines how this process can be implemented to architecture. These six pillars together construct a design method that is applicable to solve architectural problems. The mischievous gizmo, the reconstructed systems from a piano, and other panels at the exhibition exist as trails of discovery to reach the six pillars.

Student: Nicholas Warnet (IG: @nickwarnet)，M.Arch ‘17 Henry Bergson’s theory of duration describes the passing of time as “constant invention, creation of forms, and an elaboration of the absolutely new”. As a reaction to current, mainly static solutions to dynamic inputs, the work looks to the implementation and choreography of specifically tailored devices and apparatuses that are used to calibrate and mediate fluctuating characteristics. Instruments that begin to trace, transfer, reinterpret, and reconstruct histories as a sort of “memory theater” of what once was or what once is. New ‘histories’ can be born, worked on, coupled, uncovered, reborn, conjoined, spliced, deleted...

A gorgeous afternoon walk along the Squamscott. It was nap time for some. #afternoonwalk #clearingthemind #movingmeditation #iloveclouds #thebluestblue (at Exeter, New Hampshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnIIS61vra5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Red Type Drawings- Notational Drawings illustrating temporal shifts, false shadows, striped conditions of engagement. Drawings depict a series of devices doing work on a ‘Left for Dead’ landscape located in a Chilean Surface Mine. 

I love the overhang on this building. It is so ornate and looks like the green you get when copper oxidizes and is just unlike any other buildings in the Old Market. Or maybe it just seems that way because it is the tallest building on its block by a long shot. Or maybe its just how surreal it looks against a completely blue sky. #architecture #oldmarket #omaha #thebluestblue #nothingbutblueskies

Floral Proximity Stitch Document Prairie Onion  - Allium stellatum