During this unit we focused on answering the question: “how does an idea drive change?” After learning all about the anatomy of a revolution from French historian Crane Brinton, and the aesthetics of steampunk from the book Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. We have now taken our knowledge and learnt all about metaphors, circuits and the French Revolution. This question was answered using both humanities and scimatics to create a Rube Goldberg…

In class we’ve been learning all about the steam punk aesthetics. Before this subject was introduced to me in class I didn’t know anything about it and I had only heard the word maybe once in my life. So far we’ve read leviathan and we’ve started a project called metaphor machines. Both of these activities in class have been teaching us about the steam punk world. So I came up…