These workshops are not a conventional public workshops. The location, the brief, the demonstrations, and the exercises are tailored, and aim to provide certain benefits to each community I engage. How do I acknowledge the different skills you all bring to the table? By asking you to leverage what you do know- whether it is craft, writing, drawing, working with your hands, photography, organizing, or teaching… any of it. It can all come into play here, and is valid. The exercises are acts of playful production, craft, pseudo construction, taking delight in the tactility of materials and the aesthetics of improvisation. It’s not product driven. No one will be walking away today with a bird house, this time. The open-ended exercises as structured tinkering meant to be explorative, generative, and sometimes silly.