Indy had founded an organisation called Dark Matter Labs as an architecture-practice-meets-think-tank- meets-innovation-consultancy (my summary) when he realised that the kind of housing projects he wanted to develop – projects that prized community and human connection – were virtually impossible within the framework of contemporary property

• What’s the right balance of generalizable knowledge vs specific, contextual knowledge, how does that vary by type of problem, and who holds generalizable knowledge?


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