we visited Autodesk in Boston today. I was impressed by the facility and their philosophy, but I am still very wary of start up culture and all the man-buns I saw during our tour. the education director seemed really solid. he shared with us a human-centered design project he led for a class at UNC- solar powered tents for small street businesses in India. a project on display at Autodesk gave us the idea to 3D print connectors for our scaffolding in the outdoor crochet classroom, but this might not be cost or time effective.
this being said we probably could have taken the tour ‘virtually’ and skipped out on the 7 hours of driving. poor tom 🙁 he did so good though!!