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UB: So, what exactly is “Hip Hop Inspired Architecture”?

MF: Hip hop inspired architect will come as a result of the exploration and study of the hip hop elements and there development and usage throughout the past four decades. The cultural and behavioral traits of the hip hop generation instigated by the towers in a park model, gives implications... See more

As soon as you start down the slippery slope of doing things based on convention, you are diluting your independence and uniqueness, which is to say your reason for existing. Even the smallest things can start to bend you toward conformity.

Maybe this is all taking me back to Annie Dillard, my first writing teacher, whose influence on me abides, and who famously and reassuringly once wrote, “You don’t run down the present, pursue it with baited hooks and nets. You wait for it, empty-handed, and you are filled. You’ll have fish left over.” In other words, the empty-handedness is... See more

People often think of advantage in networks in terms of being connected to powerful people. But when it comes to creating value, the advantage lies with people who are connected to those who aren’t themselves connected. These disconnects –- between people not already talking to one another or coordinating with one another –- are called holes in the

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“How might we use design to connect people to their local ecologies?”

Instead of describing everything that’s upside down and dishonest about the world of 1984, Orwell chooses the 13th hour as a symbol to show you that something is off and that nobody’s questioning it.

This is the power of symbolism: with one strong, vivid image, you can communicate an entire message or, in this case, build a world and foreshadow the... See more

Part of the future I believe I'm seeing is a change in the software ecosystem which, for the moment, I'm calling situated software. This is software designed in and for a particular social situation or context.