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Rosa Weinberg is a design educator and artist based in Massachusetts.



CREATIVE PRACTICE

Attunement
Shimmer
Digital Polished
Breathing
Love is About
Anna’s Delight
Stethosuit
(more)

TEACHING

Beaver Centered Design
Extraordinary Ordinary
User-Centered Design
Juxtapose
Intro to Architecture
Easing Cerebral Palsy
Neighborhood Marvels
(more)

misc.

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Stick Selfie-Stick

2020

ROLE

Designer and fabricator

MATERIALS + METHODS

Sticks, wire, string, rubberbands

For the first eight months of the pandemic I was in a cabin in the woods of southern New Hampshire. I missed going on walks with friends. Holding a phone up for a video call on a walk is an arm-tiring proposition, so I created a wearable selfie-stick. Without the tools I generally use, laser cutters and 3D printers, I turned to the materials at hand: small beech branches, wire, string, and rubberbands. I explored a variety of mechanical connections to make a fully-working wearable selfie-stick. 

I continued to explore devices for mounting cameras through a number of projects. I created a deployable night vision camera to keep an eye on some naughty beavers building in our culvert. Inspired by a quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”) I created an outward-turned device called a “Walk with a Friend”. In addition, I created a wearable phone holder called “A Close View of the Face” for a Zoom-based dance performance for International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I also ran a series of workshops called Office Kitsch for Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab in which I instructed adults on how to make wearable phone holders out of office and kitchen supplies.

Stick Selfie-Stick

2020

ROLE

Designer and fabricator

MATERIALS + METHODS

Sticks, wire, string, rubberbands

For the first eight months of the pandemic I was in a cabin in the woods of southern New Hampshire. I missed going on walks with friends. Holding a phone up for a video call on a walk is an arm-tiring proposition, so I created a wearable selfie-stick. Without the tools I generally use, laser cutters and 3D printers, I turned to the materials at hand: small beech branches, wire, string, and rubberbands. I explored a variety of mechanical connections to make a fully-working wearable selfie-stick. 

I continued to explore devices for mounting cameras through a number of projects. I created a deployable night vision camera to keep an eye on some naughty beavers building in our culvert. Inspired by a quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction”) I created an outward-turned device called a “Walk with a Friend”. In addition, I created a wearable phone holder called “A Close View of the Face” for a Zoom-based dance performance for International Day of Persons with Disabilities. I also ran a series of workshops called Office Kitsch for Columbia University’s Digital Storytelling Lab in which I instructed adults on how to make wearable phone holders out of office and kitchen supplies.