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Cities serious about this make it cheap to try, safe to fail, easy to share: studios above shops and night-use schools; 24/7 makerspaces and tool libraries; public-realm prototyping permits; micro-grants and federated residencies; civic IP commons and early, small-lot procurement that buys from the edge.
Depth also requires physiological foundations. Clean air, healthy circadian rhythms, access to water and nourishing food—these are not lifestyle perks, but the biological prerequisites of sustained thought. And just as we regulate waste or emissions, we may need to regulate sensory pollution: advertising saturation, incessant notifications, the... See more
At the end of the day, we have to radically transform society, and we have to do it fast,” he says. That means overhauling politics, policies and institutions, safeguarding food production and the natural world that supports life on Earth.
“That’s the recipe to mitigate collapse,” he says. “But nothing is really happening substantially. We are... See more
“That’s the recipe to mitigate collapse,” he says. “But nothing is really happening substantially. We are... See more
The universe is not static; it’s in a state of constant acceleration, moving toward greater complexity and transformation. Terence McKenna believed that history, consciousness, and innovation are speeding up, leading us to a moment of infinite novelty—a singularity where all possibilities converge.
"The universe is a... See more
instagram.com“When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order”
– Ilya Prigogine
– Ilya Prigogine
Islands of Coherence: The Quiet Wisdom of Starlings
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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