Workshop / open notebook

A room for unfinished ideas.

In Mrs. Squishy’s workshop, the shelves are labelled by questions instead of answers. This is her way of making room for invention.
FOUNDTRIEDRETHOUGHT
Project file 001

How to make a new thing from an old thing.

Find

Choose an ordinary object that nobody is using. Draw it from two angles.

Ask

What can it do? What else could it do if you turned it over?

Try

Make the smallest possible test. Keep the useful surprise even if the first idea fails.

The workshop shelf

A button became a wheel. A bent spoon became a mirror for a tiny room. A blanket folder became a banner maker. Every object carries more than one possibility.

Try the idea machine
Mrs. Squishy says

“A good question can outlast a bad invention.”