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@MarkAllanKaplan

1 year ago

It is the brilliant minds and beautiful hearts of new generation explorers like Kei Kreutler who give me hope for the future. In this talk she integrates multiple domains of knowledge to explore the theoretical and practical dimensions of mediums of memory. Her passionate search has a deep and higher framework that... See more

we call this idea bigamy

that you can take multiple desirable

elements that might not fit together or

even seem mutually exclusive like the

garden home in the high-rise and merge

them together into a new genre

you don't have to remain faithful to a

single idea you can literally marry

multiple ideas into promiscuous hybrids

the beauty is that architecture... See more

Human minds are not elusive, ghostly inner things. They are seething, swirling oceans of prediction, continuously orchestrated by brain, body, and world . We should be careful what kinds of material, digital, and social worlds we build, because in building those worlds we are building our own minds too.

By enshrining trade-offs in the mode of thinking of policymakers, and business people, and problem solvers, what you’ve actually done is create an incredibly infertile ground for creative ideas . Because you basically treat the trade-off as if it’s kind of just part of the system. I have to ask the question of this kind of obsession with... See more

I almost don’t even want to design and operate from scratch. I’m into the idea of editing. And I think that’s valuable now, because the cycles have gotten shorter. For me, the ideas of Mies van der Rohe and Bauhaus are things that completely translate to modernism in clothing—the idea that you could design a building that’s so resolved in its... See more

The traditional markers of success—speed, scale, and surface-level wins—have lost their shine. We've outgrown the relentless chase, the endless pursuit of more. True success isn't found in constant acceleration; it lies in what we choose to build, nurture, and sustain over time.

For me, this year isn't about revolutionising my life—it's about... See more

I mentioned that implicit conviction “comes from something deeper than the cause and effect we perceive in the unfolding of events.” What exactly is this deeper -something? My first attempt to answer this question happened spontaneously, over a decade ago: “Some companies have a soul,” I found myself saying to a friend over lunch, “others are just... See more