ABOUT

  Mikebrain.xyz was originally founded as a simple blog in the summer of 2024. In the Fall of 2024 and into the Spring of 2025 Mikebrain.xyz turned into a workshop/installation series. Through installations, workshops, and blog posts, Mikebrain.xyz has always had the goal of being a place for learning, sharing, experimentation, asking questions.
This Fall 2025, Mikebrain.xyz has taken on new form to reflect these goals. Mikebrain.xyz is now the Mikebrain.xyz Informal Research Lab. It may hense forth be refered to in various ways, Mike Brain Informal Research Lab, mikebrain.xyz, M.B.I.R.L., or the I.R.L.

Topics the Mikebrain.xyz I.R.L. hopes to explore include:

Repair
Reuse
Retrofit
End-User Assembly
Community
Collaboration
Process
The Global
The Local
The Landscape
Live Oak TreesOld Houses
Wabi-Sabi
Collecting
Ritual
Tradition
SlownessSustainability
Craft
Instructions
Guidelines
Design Thinking
Sustainability
Craft
Instructions
Guidelines
Design Thinking
Architecture
Sustainability
Craft
Instructions
Guidelines Architecture
Sustainability
Craft
Instructions
GuidelinesDesign Thinking
ArchitectureUrbanism
The Public
The Just City
Industrial Design
Interaction Design
The Museum
The Gallery
The Storefront
The Pop-Up
The Office
The Workshop
The Bench
Tools
Gear
The Home
The Temporary
The Incomplete
Trance
Techno
Abstraction
Activism
Advertising 
SDGs
Sprawl
Density
Balance
Tshirts
Ceramics
The sound system

Notebooks/sketchbooks
The Brain
The Heart
Mass Timber
Stone
Balance
Tshirts
Ceramics
The sound system
Notebooks/sketchbooks
The Brain
The Heart
Mass Timber
Stone
Plastic
The Organic
DIY
Diversity
The Window
Interiors
Exteriors
Materiality
Function
Aesthetics
Speed
Bauhaus
Analog
Digital
Accessibility
The Network
Aesthetics
Bauhaus
Analog Tools
Digital Tools
Accessibility
The Network
Creek
Jjjjound
The Publication
The Zine
The Chair
The Table
The Crate
Truisms
The Book
The Blog
The Lab


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