BRUCE MAU'S MASSIVE CHANGE NETWORK

Modernism’s methodologies of mapping, designing, planning, for controlling and changing deeply complex systems may not be the answer to the challenges we face. Maybe we need to go underground — working in networked, symbiotic companionships, like mycelial arrangements, to generate infinite micro-revolutions.

The throughline of the works I'm documenting here is interventions. Works that interrupt and subvert our everyday expectations to prod us into considering their place in our lives. Practices that break the mundane continuity of commonplace moments and offer us connection in the most unexpected of places. Pregnant pauses that trigger a flurry of lif... See more

As Fritjof Capra says: a machine can be controlled, a living system can only be disturbed. At best, we will find ways of carefully nudging a living system. According to Donella Meadows, we must find its leverage points, those pivots that allow us to influence system behavior. Most importantly: after each cautious inter- vention, we must patiently o... See more