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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.
Clay Shirky • Situated Software
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
To quote a billboard we encountered next to the motorway: "You are not stuck in traffic. You are traffic!"
Complexity Fit
I’ve been working through a couple of books, one being Embodiment which I wrote about last time as well. The possibility of enrichment through the design of our daily objects, both digital and physical, is the driver behind so many (conscious and subconscious) moods and decisions.
There is always the possibility of elevation. The rethinking of... See more
There is always the possibility of elevation. The rethinking of... See more
Reggie James • Shifting Base Expectations
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)
Renee Gladman is an artist and writer preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, geographies, and syntaxes as they play out in the interstices of poetry and fiction. She is the author of nine works of prose and one collection of poetry.
Renee Gladman | FCA Grant Recipient
June Jordan, The Poetry of Design
Jordan would keep integrating media: “‘These ideas have to reach beyond architecture,’ she said, ‘beyond urbanism, beyond the academy, we need to reach the masses, we need to reach the people,’ and her response was writing in images. (...) She didn’t have training in drawing, as she had had nobody to pay for her to... See more
Jordan would keep integrating media: “‘These ideas have to reach beyond architecture,’ she said, ‘beyond urbanism, beyond the academy, we need to reach the masses, we need to reach the people,’ and her response was writing in images. (...) She didn’t have training in drawing, as she had had nobody to pay for her to... See more