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I wonder if you experience a different set of values that are perhaps slightly more empathetic to a more considered, slower approach in your geographic context—do you feel the same or different pressures? I recently met with an Italian curator, Viviana Checchia (coincidentally also an ICI alumna) who has just finished a PhD thesis on slowness in Me
... See moreChloe Geoghegan • Tools for Slowing Down
Architecture is not an economic commodity that can be corrected by market forces, nor an engineering problem that can be honed towards an optimal solution. Architecture is a spiritual ethic, one that both shapes and is shaped by the ambient zeitgeist of the society it stands in.
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
The beauty is in the gaps. Art and culture arise from the blank spaces (which may be why these vital spheres in particular seem to be diminishing in this time of always on, always available activity). Uselessness and purposelessness4 are true luxury, true wealth. Look at any heart-stirring ceremony or custom or event- they are filled with detours a... See more
Thomas J Bevan • Walking as Inactivity
tiny internets is an inquiry into how we create more human, natural, and homey spaces to shape, live in, and form bonds in.
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
slow down the moment so as to find our way back into it. Day Schildkret, Morning Altars
Lucy H. Pearce • Creatrix: she who makes
sometimes cultivating a natural pace isn’t just about the time you dedicate to a project, but also the context in which the work is completed. As the French philosopher Gaston Bachelard argues in The Poetics of Space, we shouldn’t underestimate the ability of our surroundings to transform our cognitive reality. In discussing the role of a home, for
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