Workshop mess. That’s one of the major highlights of the workshop. Come try things, make things, get dirty, give it a shot. It’s not a beauty contest, it’s not on display and it doesn’t have to work. It’s a workshop. It’s a mess. The mess isn’t a necessary evil…it’s a FEATURE.*
Gabe Anderson,

A journey is called that because you cannot know what you will discover on the journey, what you will do with what you find, or what you find will do to you.**
James Baldwin

Workshops are great places for trying things out, whether
we call them studios, studies, offices, class rooms, laboratories, sheds, workspaces, factories …
They are already full of ideas, materials, tools, failed experiments to reuse;
We like them because we are walking workshops, creative-spaces on legs crammed with
experiences, memories, successes, failures, dreams, ideas, talents, values, and energy –
When we see our lives and our spaces in this way,
We can never be stuck.

There’s a temptation to do nothing simply because there’s so much to do that one doesn’t know where to begin. Begin anywhere.^

*Gabe Anderson’s blog: Workshop Mess;
**Adam Kahane’s Everyday Habits For Transforming Systems.
^John Cage, from Adam Kahane’s Everyday Habits For Transforming Systems.