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A muted gradient piece of paper that's accordion folded to create a bunch of slots in which people have placed cards. "Things I've Found Helpful" Is written on the top of the board.

Julian Wellisz

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venmo: @julian-wellisz

We Got This

We Got This is about creating button-up tools and workshops that help promote collaboration, connection and care within individualistic cultures of overwork. Like RISD’s…

The artifacts are community driven and horizontal in structure. They increase informational transparency and archive. They not only guide conversations but capture and display incites. 

The workshops are designed to establish communal values and garner collective knowledge. These events are recurring, creating space for reexamination, discourse, and consistent practice.

A wall mounted raw plywood board with three sections: Hope To Learn, Practicing, and Happy To Help. Each section has a grid of stacked envelopes where people have left yellow cads.

Wooden Share Board

Paper, Wood

96" x 48"

2022

It’s a platform that publicly displays individual aims and resources that might otherwise be unknown to the masters of industrial design community. A conversation starter. The subjects I selected for the board are Hope to Learn, Practicing, and Happy To Help.  If you’re hoping to learn something share it with your community by adding the activity and your name to the board. The share board helps identify common interests and builds relationship between those hoping to learn and happy to help.

A detailed image of the share share board. A green card with the word yoga written and then a card in an envelope above with the name Aaliya on it.

Wooden Share Board - Detail

Paper, Wood

96" x 48"

2022

The share boards design is outward facing. The community notices the board populates over time.  Its contents are almost entirely visible.  The hidden half of the contact cards became an area for play and a moment of discovery.

A muted gradient piece of paper that's accordion folded to create a bunch of slots in which people have placed cards. "Things I've Found Helpful" Is written on the top of the board.

Paper Share Board

Folded Digital Print

16 x 22

2022

A folded paper version of this board to easily share this platform with communities beyond RISD.  In the paper version the subject of the boards are left up to the user.

A small steel pole holding half sheets of paper that people have written on. The pole is on top of an clear box holding extra paper and a pen.

Experience Hub

Acrylic, Steel, Resin, Paper

6" x 10" x 4"

2022

The Experience Hub’s aim is to create a repository of student and teacher experiences that outlasts the student cycle. It's an evolving platform where community members add entries that share resources, incites, and experiences. And learn from, reflect on, and connect with the contributions of past and present community members. To create an additional form of feedback, an emergent institutional history. 

A series of 10 red and baby blue boards displaying different values. Each board has a strings on them in which community members have hung cards.

Community Value Workshop

Wood, Felt, String, Paper

108" x 60"

2022

The artifacts created for the MID Community Value Workshop not only put community values on display, they invite continued asynchronous participation. These values aren’t set in stone, they are set in letter board. Meaning they should be revisited. The workshop is going to be adopted as an annual departmental activity held each fall. 

 

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