Hacked By Ashley
I had an amazing costume designer who worked in the costume shop of a university. She had thousands of costumes. She would show me a costume, I would make a face, and she would say, “Don’t look at it for what it is; look at it for what it can be.” My costumes would end up amazing!!
I began to use this saying when students built and designed projects in my class. I would have them use recyclable materials, and I told them to look past whatever the object was and think about what it could be. The projects often wowed me.
This past week I stumbled upon a show called Hacked on Netflix. If you have access, I highly recommend it.
A builder, an engineer, a designer, and a creative problem solver form a team to hack people’s homes in order to make the home more functional for the family living there. And I mean, they absolutely hack it!!! All forms of the word hack are used!! They look beyond the space they are given and take it to the next level…to what it could be.
What if we looked at ourselves in this way? Looking at what we could be, using what we have but without limits and boundaries. How far could we soar? And what if we all started to do this? How much better would this world be?
