Samuel Wines

Cities serious about this make it cheap to try, safe to fail, easy to share: studios above shops and night-use schools; 24/7 makerspaces and tool libraries; public-realm prototyping permits; micro-grants and federated residencies; civic IP commons and early, small-lot procurement that buys from the edge.

Depth also requires physiological foundations. Clean air, healthy circadian rhythms, access to water and nourishing food—these are not lifestyle perks, but the biological prerequisites of sustained thought. And just as we regulate waste or emissions, we may need to regulate sensory pollution: advertising saturation, incessant notifications, the end... See more

Learning is therefore not possessive (“what I know”), but relational — a shared dynamic that arises between people, places, infrastructures, and systems. To institutionalize learning in this way requires:

Context-aware architectures of support, not generic toolkits.

Epistemic humility: the recognition that knowledge is always co-created, contingent, ... See more

At the end of the day, we have to radically transform society, and we have to do it fast,” he says. That means overhauling politics, policies and institutions, safeguarding food production and the natural world that supports life on Earth.

“That’s the recipe to mitigate collapse,” he says. “But nothing is really happening substantially. We are shift... See more

“When a system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to lift the entire system to a higher order”

– Ilya Prigogine