Next week's free public events: "away from keyboard" jewelry repair cafés, easy demographics GIS workshop, cyanotype printing, VR design=>3D prints, learn a way to explore a large corpus of humanities or socsci text (word embeddings!):

Looking forward to sharing thoughts and experiments with critical making in an era of agentic tools at UVA next week!

'Institutional norms, such as claims to neutrality, intellectualism, & future-orientation, quietly shape what+how educators can teach. Walsh combines theory+practical insight: case studies, digital projects, & firsthand reflections to demonstrate how these forces operate+how they can be challenged'

"Embedded Pedagogies" is an open-access book & free to read online 👇📚

On Thursday: come to our makerspace to learn how to make origami flowers, trinkets, toys, and more! All materials are provided; no experience needed. As w/all events, free+open to the public.

On Wed, join us to learn how to design an object in virtual reality, then print a model of it using our makerspace's 3D printers:

On Tues, join us in our makerspace for a free introductory cyanotype workhop. We provide the ink+paper already set up, all you need to do is bring in things you would like to print: flowers, trinkets, fabric, etc. Lots of materials here as well to play around w/if you aren't sure what to bring, too.

Do you have a list of street addresses crying out to be mapped? Have a list of zip codes or census tracts you wish to associate with other data? Join us Tues 9/29: we’ll start with addresses and other things spatial and end with points on a map, ready for visualization and analysis:

Next week's free SLab public events: pedagogy, printing+paper arts, mapping, VR=>3D printing! 🧵+

(Jessica is this year's Critical Making Fellow, a 2025-26 Praxis Fellowship alum, & a UVA PhD student in English; Ammon is @scholarslab.bsky.social's Makerspace Manager & Lead Research Technologist)

Scholars' Lab colleagues Jessica Gómez & Ammon Shepherd write about Gómez's Critical Making Fellowship project: a physical data visualization of Latiné people killed in police shootings, highlighting our anticipation of data movements to emphasize that we expect a continuing pattern of murder.