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I think a large part of why we’re so unhappy with our digital spaces is that the people designing them don’t really see themselves as urban planners. It’s a metaphor that occasionally floats around without much acknowledgment that it has altogether ceased to be a metaphor .
If designers, product managers and engineers are really digital urban... See more
If designers, product managers and engineers are really digital urban... See more
Rebecca • Architecting digital spaces
Mostly, though, I’ve had the sense that the Internet is in a state of limbo, suspended between the remains of an aging, broken system and the nebulous beginnings of a new one. One of the Internet’s best qualities remains that anyone can start over, at any time, with a blank Web site, and create whatever they want.
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
Hip Hop Has Already Transformed Culture. Now, It’s Changing Architecture, Too
Karen Wongculturedmag.com
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Creating online, in a counter-intuitive way, is a way to disconnect with the very-online world we live in and a way to reconnect with yourself.
Paul Millerd • The Great Creator Arbitrage Opportunity | #200 🥳
HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
Lecture 1.1 Aesthetic Perception
Transcript:
K. MICHAEL HAYS: I'm in Gund Hall, which is the home of the Graduate School of Design. And I'm in the studio space, which is where the most intense activity takes place of design, of analysis and research, of imagination. We'll speak about the
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Understanding the unique combination that is your practice , is key in understanding what types of events you may want to produce → and subsequently what assets you are trying to free from its previous context → to manipulate/rethink/destroy/etc it while moving it into the future.
Reggie James • The Body As Mixer
note2self: this is like going from time domain to frequency domain. applying laplace transform so we go from having to deal with hairy nasty diffyQs to plain old algebra. letting the bird free from the cage. (see MIT:ted:bird in mymind)
Still, I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
"Kinship mind is a way of improving and preserving memory in relationships with others. If you learn something with or from another person, this knowledge now sits in the relationship between you." - Tyson Yunkaporta, Sand Talk