Here’s the link to the Google doc.

THATCampers, please join us at Balliceaux whether you could attend the workshop or not.  We’ll be over there around 5:30 or so and should be the first big-ish group in the place.

Balliceaux
203 N. Lombardy St.
Richmond, VA

Here is a map for the walk/drive to Balliceaux from the Academic Learning Commons (workshops). Right turn out of the building on Floyd Ave., right at the end of the block onto Harrison St., two blocks to a left turn onto Grove Ave; four blocks to a right on Lombardy; Balliceaux on the right.

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Any objection to #thatcampns14 as the hashtag for this event? Better ideas?

I’m really interested in exploring ways in which the 3D printing revolution might make its way into fields that aren’t really about material culture.  It’s somewhat obvious how archaeologists might use 3D printing, or engineers or product developers or model-makers.

But a lot of what we all do here–whether we’re historians or activists or poets or community builders–is based in words and text.  I’d love to kick around ideas with folks interested in imagining what our world will look like when everybody has easy access to 3D printers.  We’re almost there already.

I have a suspicion 3D printing will have a significant role in how we come to communicate ideas to others.  But will it affect the questions we ask in the first place? Thoughts on this are very welcome!