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Archive for September 2010

Week 168

So, I got back from a one-week holiday on Terschelling last weekend (which was lovely, by the way) and immediately dove into work again. So much to do at the moment, it’s a challenge not to get swamped. Anyway. And it is one of those weeks where I need to look back on my calendar [...]

Links for 2010-09-09

Ronald Rietveld ARCAM lecture at Alper.nl This Ronald Rietveld character sounds like a priest of the school of Stewart Brand & Jane Jacobs. "Architecture is interaction design." Well not always, but it certainly can be. (tags: architecture urbanism planning cities interactiondesign adaptation) The ants march on, but we'd be happier as grasshoppers | Joe Moran [...]

Links for 2010-09-08

About Flow: Doors of Perception 7 on Flow "There are mental spaces which in some ways correspond to external physical space but in other ways certainly don’t. One such mental space, what I’ve called ‘charged space’, seems to have developed over the past century or so. It tries to represent how we respond as a [...]

Links for 2010-09-07

Maneki Neko – ScottWiki Lovely short story by Bruce Sterling about a future gift economy. The system he describes works great as a literary device but for it to work in real life I think it would require some discernible feedback for individual users. (tags: manekineko brucesterling gifts economies sciencefiction scifi fiction) Infovore " What [...]

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