{"id":3339,"date":"2025-10-19T20:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=3339"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:19:18","slug":"sunday-scraps-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sunday-scraps-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Scraps #101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3341\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-1568x2091.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_2143-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M0yQj3vFrKI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Went to an <a href=\"https:\/\/eatworkart.com\/cornerstone-studios\">open studio night<\/a> and had the pleasure of meeting the artist <a href=\"https:\/\/ocula.com\/magazine\/art-news\/barby-asante-celebrates-black-workers-on-tube\/\">Barby Asante<\/a> \/ am going to try to go see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2025\/oct\/15\/claire-fontaine-show-less-mimosa-house-london-courbet-origine-du-monde\">Claire Fontaine<\/a>&#8216;s show and the AA Gallery show about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaschool.ac.uk\/publicprogramme\/whatson\/the-word-for-world\">Ursula K Le Guin&#8217;s maps<\/a>\u00a0 \/ the concept of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Method_of_loci\">memory palace<\/a> is so interesting \/ calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/future\/article\/20251009-rescuing-knowledge-trapped-on-old-floppy-disks\">floppy disks<\/a> old makes me feel ancient \/ I went to Venice a week ago and loved the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fondazioneprada.org\/project\/diagrams\/?lang=en\">Diagrams<\/a> show by OMA at Fondazione Prada, the <a href=\"https:\/\/labiennale.art.pl\/en\/wystawy\/lares-and-penates-on-building-a-sense-of-security-in-architecture\/\">Polish<\/a> pavillion and the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/doxiadis\">Doxiadis Informational Modernism<\/a> exhibit in the Arsenale (the first time I see <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ekistics\">ekistics<\/a> mentioned) \/ I find it very hard to believe the artist-run <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/XxBuoegXxFY?si=4pWxaOoN2_7c9UK6\">FOOD<\/a> restaurant was the first one in SoHo \/ the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eco-compute.io\/\">eco-compute<\/a> conference looks interesting \/ it&#8217;ll soon be 40 years since James Baldwin gave this <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7_1ZEYgtijk?si=XdJRf2MiUKEQByLT\">talk<\/a> but it might as well be today \/ I popped into the British Library yesterday to look at the catalogue for a 2013 exhibition about <a href=\"https:\/\/kellenberger-white.com\/project\/xerography\/\">xerography<\/a> and learnt that the photocopier was an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chester_Carlson\">IP lawyer&#8217;s side project<\/a> and that a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.getty.edu\/iris\/hit-print-make-art\/\">21 year old woman<\/a> was the first to photocopy her derri\u00e8re at work \/ I&#8217;ve been playing around with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/designswarm\/\">video<\/a> a little and looking at cinemagraphs next.<\/p>\n<p>In social news, I&#8217;m going to an alumni evening at the Qu\u00e9bec office in London, having dinner with <a href=\"https:\/\/cubicgarden.com\/about\/\">Ian<\/a> who is in town, attending my friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/rosieburbidge_law-lawyer-legal-activity-7377295800625811457-LK7A?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAA8XQoBAk11ZfQR2b5uKqPgE1br8jVYDTA\">Rosie&#8217;s book launch<\/a> and going to see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/fairs\/frieze-london\">Frieze<\/a> with some former colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>In job seeking news, I&#8217;m starting my 4th week of a 6 month contract supporting the Energy Systems Catapult with business development for their <a href=\"https:\/\/es.catapult.org.uk\/tools-and-labs\/living-lab\/\">Living Lab<\/a> (which the fierce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairerowland.com\/\">Claire<\/a> is leading). I&#8217;m keeping an eye on full time leadership roles from March 2026 so keep me in mind if you see anything.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to an open studio night and had the pleasure of meeting the artist Barby Asante \/ am going to try to go see Claire Fontaine&#8216;s show and the AA Gallery show about Ursula K Le Guin&#8217;s maps\u00a0 \/ the concept of a memory palace is so interesting \/ calling floppy disks old makes me&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/sunday-scraps-101\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday Scraps #101<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundayscraps","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-RR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3342,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions\/3342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}