I am a second year graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in the Learning, Design, Innovation, and Technology (LDIT) program. Traditionally, this is a one-year master's degree program, but I am doing it part-time, as I have a full-time job at Harvard Business School (HBS) helping to oversee the technology used in our MBA and Doctoral programs.
I come to HTMAA with only a tiny amount of fabrication experience, mostly small woodworking projects. I wanted to take this course because about two years ago, my family and I made a decision to move out from Newton, a well-resourced suburb of Boston, to a farmhouse in the hilltowns leading up to the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, where I regularly find problems and opportunities that are not solved well with a trip to a big box home store or an order on Amazon Prime. Much of the detail of a 150-year-old Queen Anne Victorian is hand-made or not made anymore, and I'd love to be able to craft period-correct wooden or metal decorative fittings, and make structures and tools that are helpful to protecting our small food crops from bugs and birds and animals.
Updated May 3 2024