I thought that using Sketch up was fairly straightforward. Depicting simple shapes and geometries of my house was simple enough, however when it came to trying to depict more intricate aspects it became difficult. I think that overall SketchUp seems… Continue Reading
It promotes platforms for informed amateur scholarship, and it serves to make humanities research into something of a new multi-player online game with global reach and relevance… We are continually creating new ways of accessing and assessing this new cultural… Continue Reading
I remember using some sort of program back in middle school (sometime around 2011) to create wonky structures that barely resembled buildings. I vaguely remember that it had something to do with Google, so it might have been SketchUp. Regardless… Continue Reading
“The cultural primacy of making, especially in tech culture—that it is intrinsically superior to not-making, to repair, analysis, and especially caregiving—is informed by the gendered history of who made things, and in particular, who made things that were shared with… Continue Reading
So this is a model of what the home I grew up in look like, on the 14th floor of an apartment building in Beijing, China. I thought about modeling the entire building when I was reading the instructions but… Continue Reading
Making is not a rebel movement, scrappy individuals going up against the system. While the shift might be from the corporate to the individual (supported, mind, by a different set of companies selling a different set of things), it mostly… Continue Reading
As a not-so-artistically-inclined individual, the relatively simple task at hand of creating a rough-sketch of my childhood home felt daunting, to say the least. While I would consider this assignment difficult, I certainly still ultimately enjoyed myself, and appreciate the… Continue Reading
“The advent of Digital Humanities implies a reinterpretation of the humanities as a generative enterprise: one in which students and faculty alike are making things as they study and perform research, generating not just texts (in the form of analysis,… Continue Reading
Summers ago, I used SketchUp for a summer program. Now, I have attempted to recreate my house. Being the overachiever that I am, I did the inside as well (and included all the doors) which was majorly frustrating. Setting up… Continue Reading
I have always wanted to learn how to use SketchUp. As someone interested in 3D modeling, it seemed like an incredible tool capable of building complex and realistic structures. Now that I have actually used SketchUp, I can confess that… Continue Reading
