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Chenoe Hart

@chenoehart.bsky.social

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Architectural designer and researcher exploring the intersection of the internet and physical space. https://chenoehart.com/

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · Nov 11

An introduction for anyone who’s new to my account: I explore how technology will make our built environment more complex & more interactive. I’ve prototyped robotic furniture, theorized about how computers perceive our cities and predicted that someday we will all live in driverless cars.

Wheeled vehicular pods congregate at dusk within a depopulated landscape.

Illustration of server racks being used as home furniture.

Illustration of a robotic furniture product. Items deposited into a storage box are photographed and appear on a smartphone.

Design proposal for a large outdoor monument consisting of a walkway through a tunnel of steel frames.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 59m

Try Windirstat or the equivalent Mac program (I forget what it’s called but I’ve also used it before) to see if there’s any large inessential files you don’t know about which you can delete. (Check to make sure they’re not something essential for running the operating system.)

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 21h

More explorations of how technology/automation interacts with physical space, in various manifestations. I’m trying out a few different directions for that right now.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 22h

I did the BA + MArch route (I had classmates find jobs straight out of my liberal arts-oriented BA program, during a recession), so I’m less familiar with AAS & BArch degrees, but back when I was considering & applied to one BArch program the BArchs I looked at started with abstract design as well.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 22h

Also in my experience firms assume entry-level people will need to be trained in the firm’s specific approach to construction documents, so excessive technical preparation in early years isn’t necessarily needed.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 22h

Sounds like it might be. I found early conceptual design assignments to be the most important & meaningful aspect of architecture school, so ideally youd want to find a way to get exposed to it, esp. if it’s something you want to do. It influenced everything I subsequently did in approaching design.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 23h

You’d likely still have to learn a lot of software, but a strong emphasis on rendering over design in the first year sounds like the curriculum of a technical training program rather than architecture school.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 23h

The first year of school is supposed to be the opposite of that, and that’s the way I’ve always seen it done across multiple schools. You should be doing several design projects in your first year, including some which introduce abstract creative thinking that doesn’t directly relate to buildings.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the people are in an uncanny valley of realism where they look almost AI-generated.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

It’s not exactly the same as present-day authoritarianism, but I suspect the problem might not be totally decoupled from how academia has long functionally operated in a right-wing manner, hierarchically sorting people to an often greater extent than the private capitalist job market.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Feel like I started noticing them in media the 2010s. From a quick glance Wikipedia says that they emerged in the 1990s. I’d guess they’re probably easier to wear/store than traditional mascot costumes.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Mostly involving writing. I’m thinking about trying to experiment with creative applications of wireless charging and/or with creating some kind of an installation using e-ink screens next year, after I get through more of my current writing-related goals.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

I'm laughing out loud because, *twenty years ago*, a friend in robotics told me that showing off a dancing robot is what you do when your robot sucks, and a *group* of them even more so.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 2d

This is because dancing, for robots, is something that looks hard but is actually easy. It looks hard because it's hard for humans! But as robot tasks go, it's a pre-scripted set of motions in a totally controlled environment. You program it and test it over and over until it works right.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, I’ve noticed that seems to happen less often on this site. Like when I write something that gets shared it doesn’t necessarily lead to connections. I suspect a lot of accounts (myself included) are still trying to figure out how growth happens now that the starter pack trend has died down.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

It seems to show a lot of personal posts I’d otherwise miss!

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it is for sure. I suspect I need to accomplish more recent work (I’m trying to write more articles if I can do that in today’s publishing climate) to better show people more of what I do, but I feel like in an ideal world there’d already be enough information available.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

I first started teaching myself programming when I was younger because I wanted to make games, so I’m definitely sympathetic to that pursuit.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, when I saw your account I think I followed because the robotics angle seemed interesting! My background is in architecture, but I’ve also been interested in technology and robotics for a long time, and I’ve previously done some self-directed electronics projects.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

I could try it. I need to try various alternative feed options often enough to really get a sense of what they offer that doesn’t always come through in an initial first glance.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

I could look into it. I think some of what I’m talking about is a collective problem where when multiple people don’t have easy ways of reaching each other fewer options for collective social interaction emerge. But certainly improving how one account reads & communicates can’t hurt.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

That makes sense for sure. I should probably look more into creating lists for the many accounts that do seem to focus on particular kinds of content, as opposed to those which combine them together.

Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

I’m glad to hear that. I feel like the world in general has become more cold and atomized lately, like I’ve had a bunch of attempts to network with people fizzle out, and I wonder how much of it is something I’m doing vs. the general situations people are going through right now.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

Feels like in the 2000-2010s there was this sea change in academia where young scholars were supposed to brand themselves in this or that way to be competitive on the market, but 3 market collapses later it feels like the pivot simply led to atomized individualistic approaches to illegible fields

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe I need to as well, and I used to do that more in the past. I think I’ve been shy about replying on really popular threads, and maybe I shouldn’t be.

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Chenoe Hart @chenoehart.bsky.social · 2d

I felt like Twitter used to do a better job of showing me posts I was interested in, and also of boosting posts on relatively niche topics so they found an audience. I get the idea that finding a specific community anywhere requires an element of luck & the right conditions.

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