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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

A post capitalist society that values science and exploration

Trekonomics: The Economics of Star Trek is a 2016 book by French economist Manu Saadia. The book deals with the topic of the scarcity in the economy by looking at it in reverse.

Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

@jamellebouie.net did you browse the Pro Camera yard sale today? Lots of great hardware! Such a great resource in the creative community of Charlottesville

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Brilliant! I’ll have to give that a try

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

My vintage VW bus owning friends don’t like the “mini-van” windshield with structural framing that disrupts their view, and the absence of the affordances that give the original a camping vibe.

Photo of a windshield view in a new VW bus

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, drawing details

Paul Rudolph, section perspective, architects office, left detail

Paul Rudolph, section perspective, architects office, center detail

Paul Rudolph, section perspective, architects office, right detail

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Paul Rudolf drawings exhibit, Materialized Space

Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, drawing detail 1

Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, drawing detail 2

Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph, drawing detail 3

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Fergie’s screen time is up this week

Tuxedo cat, Ferguson, holds an iPhone and pencil

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Amazing exhibit and gallery talk by architect, Zhang Ke, the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Professor, University of Virginia #UVA #SARC

Gallery photos of Zhang Ke’s exhibit, Earth-Dwelling, at the UVA School of Architecture featuring three models on monolithic wood bases

Wood model of adaptive reuse project in China

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Assistant Professor Schaeffer Somers and Environmental Institute Practitioner Fellow Bobby Vance led an advanced research studio in Fall 2024 comprised of ten undergraduate and graduate students in the School of Architecture.

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Students worked together to develop a "kit of parts" for ADUs, that created an adaptable dwelling system of prefabricated components—including furniture, storage, facade systems, structure and more. Design Proposal by Josephine Blount, Elizabeth Carroll, Abby Teague, and Sarah Tyner.

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The design proposals took into consideration how a home may grow or shrink according to needs over time through additions and reconfigurations. Design Proposal by Josephine Blount, Elizabeth Carroll, Abby Teague, and Sarah Tyner. (Image Left © J. Blount, E. Carroll, A. Teague, S. Tyner)

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Graduate landscape architecture student Julia MacNelly (presenting at right) developed a comprehensive guide to landscape design and maintenance at the scale of the individual housing lot addressing planting strategy for stormwater runoff. Design proposal by Julia MacNelly. (Photos: Tom Daly)

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

MacNelly aims to extend her work from the studio with faculty members Somers and Bohannon in partnership with the city and Piedmont Community Land Trust (PCLT)—more carefully integrating landscape strategies into neighborhood development. Design proposal by Julia MacNelly. (All images © J. MacNelly)

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Students researched and developed customizable options for small housing units at many scales, from the neighborhood or street, to the single unit, to furniture or built-in components.

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The design of a stair and storage 'cove' maximizes the space in a small dwelling unit. At right, a full-scale rendering or the stair assembly is exhibited in Campbell Hall. Design proposal by Vaibav Badri, Alex Cuenco-Olaya, Daniel Donofrio, Feiyang Liu, and Emily Phan.

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

And the music by Angelo Badalamenti!

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

David’s observation that the“very macabre and the very mundane combine in such a way as to reveal the former’s perpetual containment within the latter” is what I loved when I saw my first David Lynch film, Blue Velvet.

Scene with Laura Dern and Kyle MacLachlan / Blue Velvet / 1986 / directed by David Lynch

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Streets are more exciting in Copenhagen!

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Schaeffer Somers @schaeffer-s.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I watched Love Actually tonight with my girls for the hundredth time. “God Only Knows” is a masterpiece. I wouldn’t go as far as Paul McCartney who says it the greatest song ever written, but there were good Christmas vibes all through the house.