In our first class meeting (Monday 1/13/20) we started with the Strandbeest bicycle video and did a little critique of it. The walking mechanism was derived from Theo Jansen’s work. Then we went over the syllabus and the initial assignments. 

Here’s an example of upcycling that I didn’t get to show. t’s a giant ball bristling in old toothbrushes. This was one of my favorite sculptures I saw at Burning Man in 2014. Photo credits https://c1.staticflickr.com/4/3929/15420822222_947a7253d8_b.jpg and https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20130901-burning-man-art-work)