Scrolls from Sir Charlie

Musical Interventions The musical slide, By Charlie Nadeau and Nico Love For the past three weeks at NuVu, I have been working with my partner Nico, on designing elements of a musical playground. We have been working in conjunction with two other students from Reyhanli, Turkey, formerly from Syria. We were working on designing a playspace that will be built in Reyhanli, a few blocks away from where they go to school at The Karam House . We designed the Musical Slide. One of our main inspirations at the start of our project is this sort of rail slide that we thought would be interesting to improve. We also wanted to integrate a scoring system, similar to the “Test Your Strength” hammer game. We put both of these ideas into one. First, we made a chair that the user could sit in, instead of having to lie on both sides. We next built a box around it, also has a scoring system that when you went higher it made a higher pitched sound, all in a U shaped ...

Eye of Avik My most recent studio is Neighborhood Marvels, we talked to many people who are heroes to their neighborhood. We made a product for them that highlighted their qualities, with about 10% magic, or we did not have enough time to finish everything. This is Dr. Avik Chatterjee, he is the client that my partner and I chose. He works for the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program. He has two main problems in his work, firstly, he treats the same people for weeks, or months, and then one day, without warning, they just disappear. His second problem is the people in the Congress making bad policies against his clients. We wanted to combine both ideas, Hypnosis, and finding. For the first prototype, we made hypnosis goggles that are put over the victim’s head to hypnotize them. They use flashing lights, which is a type of hypnosis. This is our second prototype which is a compass which points in the direction of whoever he is tryi...

During the last two weeks, I have been working at the IIIC ( Irish International Immigrant Center ), in Boston. They help immigrants from over 120 countries to become citizens of the United States. Our family friend, Ronnie Millar, is the Executive Director there, and he very kindly allowed me to intern with him for the two weeks that I was on school vacation. During my time there, I did a variety of things, including, helping out in some of the classes, delivering and picking up packages (some containing tasty sandwiches), and organizing a great variety of cords. I also had to dress nicely, and get up early, neither of which was a problem for me. Due to snow days, and other time constraints, I only had the opportunity to attend and assist in two classes, the first was an English class and the second was class to help immigrants learn some technology basics. During the English class I sat next to a man from Mexico, who used to be a teacher before he moved here, now, I’m pr...