Newsletters for the letters T-Y feature subscribers who each volunteered to adopt a letter, select a word, explore the topic with a project, and then write about the experience. If you want details on the why and how behind this, check out the Quest post.
With that, I want to introduce Lee Kim who has chosen wonder as her word. Lee and I first connected through the NYC Service Design Meetup and have been friends and collaborators since. I hope you enjoy her project and writing as much as I do!
ALPHA BITS
You can find the full post for wonder here and also on the homepage. Here’s more info on Lee’s project:
For the illustration, I was inspired to depict Nyan Cat and Doge wandering and wondering in a pink galaxy.
The story about Lee’s inspiration around wonder is touching. The collaborations Lee has with her daughter are delightful, including the drawings they made of an All-You-Can-Wonder buffet
Their final project, Wanda’s Wonder deck, seems like a wonderful game!
CONNECTION(S)
This section is for my email friends—you won’t find it on Alpha Projects. Lee and I wanted to share more wonder with you!
Rediscover wonder, as Kathryn Schulz invites us to “step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, ‘Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.’”
Put wonder to work with the book Lee was reading, Tracking Wonder
Toggle between wonder and rigor to solve problems and produce novel value with Natalie Nixon’s book, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity, Improvisation, and Intuition at Work
Get Non-Stop Nyan Cat, play Nyan Cat: Lost in Space, and see what it meant for the 10-year old meme to be turned into an NFT
Watch Alex Chung’s CreativeMornings talk on “GIFs, Wonder, and the Constraints of Language”
Experience awe-inspiring photography of forest fireflies
Wonder at WONDER, an exhibition held at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, celebrating the gallery’s renovation and reopening with an “immersive web of magic”
💖 Show Lee’s project some love by sharing this post via email or social media (👋🏻 @wearabletracy on Instagram)—and tag with #alphaprojects.💖
You can also respond to this email if you want to pass on kudos and feedback to Lee.
Thanks for reading (and sharing)!