Pop–Up Record Store Milan Drake

Pop–Up Record Store

Record Store by Milan Drake

“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.” –Aretha Franklin

The Queen of Soul’s words rang true in our 2019–2020 Pop-Up Record Store. The Pop-Up Record Store is the metaphorical offspring of Rasputin’s Records and the d.school library of assets. Yep, that cool. Instructors come to the record store, collaborate and share ideas with colleagues, and discuss and create courses with instructors past, present, and future all through musical connections.

Our record store was filled with crates of albums, just like a record store you’d visit in real life (if we were not sheltering in place) except these albums are designed by instructors giving their insight and knowledge, tips, and insight on teaching awesome classes at the d.school.

Each album was created by individual instructors and included the following tracks with description and reasoning for each:

Track 1: What song or album best describes any course/class/workshop you have taught/led?

Track 2: What song or album best describes the students you have served?

Track 3: What song or album best describes your collaborative experience with other teachers?

Track 4: What song or album best describes WHY you want to teach

at the d.school?