Imagineering

In my junior year engineering class we read a book called 'Is There an Engineer Inside You?"  (yeah there is cuz I ate one. haha.) Up until this point, all I really knew was that I liked art and science and design things that are cool and pretty and that I LOVE Disney. While reading this book, all my interests magically came together when I discovered a field call Imagineering. Imagineering is combination of 'imagination' and 'engineering', a word coined by Walt Disney. Imagineers are engineers, architects, landscape designers, master planners, and artists. I think it would be super awesome to work for Disney and design themes parks and resorts. 

So as I was scouring the internet for cool ways to learn more about imagineering, I found some awesome blogs (that I may talk about later) and some books that I wanted get. And then I remembered that Wellesley has a library! With books! (duh) I searched through the cataloge for Imagineering or Disney and found a few books. This is one is Animated Architecture by Derek Walker. I found so much interesting thing in this book at every few minutes I found my self interrupting my room mate's studying to say "Hey did you know...!" I realized that I kinda wanted to write this stuff down. So I took notes. On a book. That wasn't assigned. But its such a cool book! Its essentially (so far) about the designing of EPCOT and what Walt Disney wanted it to become.

Original 1980's Rendering of the Epcot Center