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Synthesis as art:
Howard Gardner • A Look Inside “A Synthesizing Mind” by Howard Gardner (Book Summary)
What this exercise shows students is that just because you have looked at something doesn’t mean that you have seen it. Just because something is available instantly to vision does not mean that it is available instantly to consciousness. Or, in slightly more general terms: access is not synonymous with learning. What turns access into learning is... See more
Jennifer L. Roberts • Harvard art historian Jennifer Roberts teaches the value of immersive attention | Harvard Magazine
"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
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Burt continues with the practical application of these ideas through the management of groups (i.e. organizational design) and integration of diversity (i.e. variety).
An organization can promote creativity by facilitating different ways of seeing things. Jean-Rene Fourtou, while he was CEO of the chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc, was once asked, “Why is... See more
David Ing • Innovation, cross-appropriation, social practice, and structural holes – Coevolving Innovations
The Manhattan Transcripts
1976-1981
Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space.
1976-1981
Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space.
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
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
Unspoken Borders - Hip Hop Architecture — BRANDNU DESIGN STUDIO
This is a must-read essay by Dan Hill, introducing Adaptive Design: Insanely great, or just good enough? Originally published in Core77 in 2004, it’s a critique of the unadaptable, glued-closed Apple iPod and its non-user-replaceable battery.
Hill quotes Brian Eno:
Hill quotes Brian Eno:
An important aspect of design is the degree to which the object involves you in its... See more
Revisiting Adaptive Design, a lost design movement
Ecologists have re-oriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
A tradeoff occurs every time you get feedback. You become slightly more mainstream, slightly more aligned with the zeitgeist. You become marginally more of an exploiter than an explorer , standing on the shoulders of the giants who conceived the paradigm you’re striving to build upon. This is very effective when you want to align your work with... See more