In the following Video clip, you can see the Hinging Cubes that Erik Aberg builds, and he demonstrates how different shapes and structures can be formed using them.

What I really like about this artwork is it helps us to have a better understanding of how parts of an overall design can work together, and how we can improve our designs by utilizing such concepts.

Erik has a website and a facebook page, in which you can find more about his works.

To be brief, lots of things are wrong with Academia, and most of the problems are well-observed and well-documented by academics themselves. Just search for the title of this post and you will find thousands of articles about the subject. However, most of them are about things which are not working for academics, and it’s hard to find something that views the whole picture and discusses whether the whole system is functional and appropriate or not.