Summer at BASELINE

Congratulations to everyone on a successful first semester of The BASELINE GROUP!  As we prepare for our first exhibition at The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in the Fall, I wanted to post a few important concepts and words of wisdom as you all continue your projects over the summer. 

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One of the most important things we learned from our collaboration with Haiko Meijer was to continually ask ourselves What can we do with the materials that are at hand?  Continue to ask yourself this question as you evolve your projects over the summer.

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"The project has taught me that the collective is more important than the individual, and without consideration for other group members no collaboration succeeds."  Anonymous Statement from our Class Reflections

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"Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision; the ability to direct individual accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain uncommon results.” 

“Strength is derived from unity.  The range of our collective vision is far greater when individual insights become one.”

– Andrew Carnegie

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Everyone is a leader.

Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

Collaborate.The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.
Listen carefully.Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.From Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto

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Twelve Guidelines to remember as you update the ChickenShack Village:

1. Easy to clean.

2. Good drainage.

3. Protects the flock from wind and sun.

4. Keeps out rodents, wild birds, and other predatory animals.

5. Provides adequate space.

6. Ventilated.

7. Free of drafts.

8. Maintains a uniform temperature.

9. Place for roosting.

10. Place for hens to lay indoors.

11. Offers plenty of light.

12. Sanitary feed and water stations.

From Building Chicken Coops by Gail Damerow