2 - The Deep Dive

If you’ve ever been involved in engineering, you are familiar with the design company Ideo, every engineer’s dream job. If it’s new and cool on the block, chances are Ideo cranked it out. The company approaches every design challenge with a Deep Dive; a one day head-first jump into the challenge to learn as much as they possibly can about it. If Buenos Aires was a design challenge, then yesterday was my Deep Dive.

I met up with some students from California at the hostel in the morning and headed out to do as much of the city as possible. We started at the Pink House, Argentina’s version of the White House, then headed towards the famous district La Boca (home of the CABJ Boca Juniors if you’re a futbol fan). After that we visited the Sunday street market, the national art museum in La Recoleta, the city’s Central Park, and the Recoleta cemetery. Finally, we went to a nice restaurant to get some famous Argentine beef and wine. The waiter asked us if we wanted to order from the menu or just get unlimited everything. I think you know which we chose. A

ll of this is much better said in pictures rather than words, so let’s

get to the point.