Flomerblog

In the development of the littleBits Code Kit, Chloe Varelidi created an amazing community of educators that were passionate about the Code Kit. I learned so much from the experience that I thought it deserved a blog post of its own. The Educator Advisory Committee was composed of a very ... read more

When Seymour Papert passed away last year, it really inspired me to learn more about his work and the impact it has had on my work. In reading through Mindstorms, and listening in on Thinking about Thinking about Seymour a few things came to mind and I just want to ... read more

I wanted to make some thoughtspace to talk about these very important influences of my work and how they differ from each other. These are just my personal interpretations of them and shouldn't be used in isolation to draw conclusions about any of the models :) Montessori education is all about ... read more

In 2016 I did contract product design for a startup in San Francisco called Supply. One of tests we were doing was to see how much people would be willing to pay for a consumer product. I got the feeling in the user testing sessions (and the data supports this) that ... read more

In 2014, I worked on an event with Victoria Wu called From the Bottom of my Fuel Cell. Participants practiced rapid prototyping, using wearable technology as a theme. 20 RISD and Brown students convened in the Brown Design Workshop at Brown University for a day. The group was lucky to be joined ... read more

This is an exercise in surfacing that I completed for Supply Inc. as a contractor. read more

In my senior year at RISD, I reflected back at the events that I had done. They had all been relatively high-effort, and low-cost. This was great for a small scrappy organization, but by my senior year the STEAM budget had a large budget, and interest in the campus community ... read more