explorations in material culture

through the lenses of people who practice intuitive product design, repair, and adaptive technology services in urban communities.

·

Nigger Rigging

Tinker Hack Mcgyver Jerry Rigging, Jury Rigging, Jugaad’s outcast cousins The Quick Fix In the contextual frame I’m placing these words and similar terms, Nigger Rigging is an occupational hazard made into widely accepted expectation for the way things should be done. The time-honored arts and sciences of making things work with what one has…

Tinker Hack Mcgyver

Jerry Rigging, Jury Rigging,

Jugaad’s outcast cousins

The Quick Fix

In the contextual frame I’m placing these words and similar terms, Nigger Rigging is an occupational hazard made into widely accepted expectation for the way things should be done.

The time-honored arts and sciences of making things work with what one has at hand has been eroded from the urban fabric and at the same time corporatized

More from the blog