Note on I Hereby Pardon All Junior Engineers via Taylor Troesh

Battleships can’t be berthed in backyards, but people build wonderful wigwams

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Taylor Troesh

I Hereby Pardon All Junior Engineers

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The Mingei philosophy of “nameless craftsmen” building beautiful everyday objects from local materials - see the Folk Interfaces note - is related: wonder doesn’t require scale, it requires ingenuity within reach, which is also why I built My Studio Stool slightly off-pattern and still ended up with something more mine than the blueprint.