Shifting our frames
The History of Bird's Eye View Maps and the Mapmakers | Vintage City Maps
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Innovation Inspired by Nature — AskNature
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What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The meani... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
Why Joy Should Be Your Primary Success Metric in Work and Life
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I find this notion of pareidolia and Zinn’s way of working with it, of supplementing it, inspiring. Catching a glimpse of one of his works before it disappears has a potential to add a mythological quality to the environment that will persist in memory and possibly the undercurrent of their reality. The way he builds on the themes over times in the same spot adds to this. He adds the magic to the world that people see out of the corner of their eyes and then dismiss. People are longing for this type of whimsy and fairy dust. It is a way of seeing the world that is generally left in childhood but that should maybe be nurtured instead. It is similar to the easter eggs that game designers leave in their designs that are found by gamers and treasured that build a mythology within the game and are maybe almost accumulated in personal identity.
In my opinion, this noticing/embellishing “trick” is not only learnable but innate. Pareidolia is pre-installed in every human brain, most likely as an evolutionary advantage – without it, we wouldn’t have constellations, the Man in the Moon, or see clouds that look like elephants. If you indulge a habit of noticing these things, you will see them ... See more
Rob Walker • Pareidolia Prompts
There may be no perfect frame waiting to be found but, argues the cognitive linguist George Lakoff, it is absolutely essential to have a compelling alternative frame if the old one is ever to be debunked. Simply rebutting the dominant frame will, ironically, only serve to reinforce it. And without an alternative to offer, there is little chance of
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