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James Turrell took inspiration from astronomy and perceptual psychology. Coco Chanel was most influenced by nuns and religious symbols. David Adjaye drew from Yoruban sculpture, and Steve Jobs from Zen Buddhism and calligraphy. We could continue this list forever, but that’s not the point. The point is to look outside the confines of our industry... See more
The Browser Company • Optimizing For Feelings
“Sense of place – the way we perceive places such as streets, communities, cities or ecoregions – influences our well-being, how we describe and interact with a place, what we value in a place, our respect for ecosystems and other species, how we perceive the affordances of a place, our desire to build more sustainable and just communities, and how... See more
Dense Discovery • Dense Discovery / Issue 183
“In our endeavor to understand reality, we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case.”
-Einstein
“We will go down in history as the first society that wouldn’t save itself because it wasn’t cost effective.” -Kurt Vonnegut
How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED
More than anyone else today, Michael Ford has worked tirelessly to find and identify examples of hip-hop influenced architecture and made many arguments to define architecture’s role in hip-hop’s inception. While I call Moses the “true father,” this is a notion first forwarded by Ford, who has routinely coined Le Corbusier and Robert Moses the... See more
The Fifth Pillar: A Case for Hip-Hop Architecture
Vernacular design outside of architecture
I've been thinking about how this idea applies to design in fields outside of architecture. Architecture is unique in its geographic, climatic, and cultural contexts, since the "localism" aspect is particularly relevant. But there are probably some parallels that could be drawn to modern software design,... See more
I've been thinking about how this idea applies to design in fields outside of architecture. Architecture is unique in its geographic, climatic, and cultural contexts, since the "localism" aspect is particularly relevant. But there are probably some parallels that could be drawn to modern software design,... See more
Coleman McCormick • Designing from Experience, Not Expertise
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)
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.