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Why are rising labor costs expressed as less detail/ornamentation? Some kinds of activities — performing a string quartet is the canonical example — just intrinsically require a certain amount of labor. No amount of economic growth will alter the fact that it takes four musicians about 15 minutes each to play Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge. But why does... See more
David Schaengold • Ugly Architecture, Mediocre Buildings
We'll speak about the architectural imagination.
And I'm going to suggest that some concept like the imagination
is necessary if we want to treat architecture as a mode of knowledge.
The classical philosophers said, the soul
never thinks without phantasm, which is to say that thought needs a material
image, something to carry the thought.
So we begin to think of the imagination as bridging the gap between perception
and understanding.
source: HarvardX GSD1xThe Architectural Imagination
SW: You have said that creativity is an import-export game, not a creation game. If the most original and effective ideas are more often borrowed than created, how can companies foster innovation?... See more
RB: We all specialize, for reasons of efficiency and productivity, and are often blind to good ideas that occur in other places. When someone brings us
David Ing • Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes – Coevolving Innovations
The right sign, in the right place at the right time, could spark a mass reversal of perspective
MySpace linked the digital geography of the Internet to the offscreen world in other ways. You connected your account to your friends’ accounts by “friending” them, building a map of your preëxisting IRL relationships, and the site prompted you to choose a “Top Friends” ranking of eight people whose names appeared first in the list. The feature... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
The insincerity, the rampant performativity, the illusion of urgency, the obsession with constructing futures at the expense of the present – for better or worse, these are all things I associate with being a technologist. And when I speak to my technologist friends, most of them share the same inkling that something is amiss .
Far too many of us... See more
Far too many of us... See more
Rebecca • On being a technologist
Footnote: ruhleder