New Phytologist: https://www.newphytologist.org/
Journal: https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14698137
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6w1y2YHO6kiUvpiNz8z9Jw
Jim Haseloff: https://twitter.com/jimhaseloff
Synthetic Biology and engineering multicellular systems - talk by Jim Haseloff
Synthetic biology approaches to engineering plant form - talk by Jim Haseloff
http://www.rheingold.com/texts/tft/14.html
"ORIGINS is a movement that started on this computer (Santa Cruz, 408-475-7101). Origins began on the START-A-RELIGION conference, but we don't call it a religion. ORIGINS is partly a religion, partly like a westernized form of yoga society, partly a peace movement. It is a framework for improving your life and improving the world at the same time.
The movement centers on "practices" — actions you can use in everyday life to build effective human relationships, strength of community, and self-awareness. All the practices are based on action. None require any special equipment, settings, leaders, theories or social status. The human universals of the ordinary, everyday moment, and the personal relationship, form the basis for this training.
ORIGINS has no leaders, no official existence, nothing for sale. Because it started in an open computer conference, no one knows who all the creators are.
This movement has just begun. The brochure mentioned above recommends seven practices (Leverage a favor, Ask for help and get it, Use charisma, Finish a job, Use magic, Observe yourself, Share Grace), but these suggestions are only starters. The idea is to continually develop new training/action methods, as a community project, then discuss and share them through whatever communications media are available. This movement will never be finished, because it seeks a community of permanent innovation.
The hope is to build something which can make a better world. The first step is to make your own life better. For a more detailed overview of ORIGINS, get the brochure from the address above. To see how the movement developed, read the START-A-RELIGION message and its submessages.
"Weizenbaum's argument, in part, points out that the aspect of human nature that was externalized by the invention and evolution of computers was precisely the most machine-like aspect. The machines that embody this aspect can do some very impressive things that humans cannot do, and at present can do very little of the more sophisticated intellectual feats humans can accomplish. Even so, they are taking over the management of our civilization. Before we begin to give more decision-making responsibility over to the machines, Weizenbaum warns that it is a terrible mistake to believe that all human problems and all important aspects of human life are computable.
This "tyranny of instrumental reasoning" can lead to atrocities, Weizenbaum warns, and in the closing years of the twentieth century, it is not at all paranoid to have some healthy suspicions about what any shiny new technology that came from the Defense Department in the first place might do to our lives when they get around to mass producing it. And there is no dispute that war was the original motivation and has been the continuing source of support for the development of computer technology."
"Licklider believed that a human-computer symbiosis would be the means of steering our planet through the dangerous decades ahead. Others have used another biological metaphor for our future relationship with information processing technology — the concept of coevolution, an agreement between two different organisms to change together, to interact in such a way that improvements in the chances for survival for one species can lead to improvements in the chances for survival of the other species.
Perhaps yet another biological metaphor can help us foresee the transformation ahead. When a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, it undergoes a biologically unique process. Ancient observers noticed the similarity between the changes undergone by a butterfly pupa and those of the human mind when it undergoes the kind of transformation associated with a radical new way of understanding the world — in fact the Greek word for both butterfly and soul is psyche.
After the caterpillar has wound itself with silk, extraordinary changes begin to happen within its body. Certain cells, known to biologists as imaginal cells, begin to behave very differently from their normal caterpillar cells. Soon, these unusual cells begin to affect cells in their immediate vicinity. The imaginal cells begin to grow into colonies throughout the body of the transforming pupa. Then, as the caterpillar cells begin to disintegrate, the new colonies link to form the structure of the butterfly's body.
At some point, an integrated supercolony of transformed cells that had once crawled along the ground emerges from the cocoon and flies off into the spring sky on multicolored wings. If there is a positive image of the future of human-computer relations, perhaps it is to be seen reflected in the shapes of the imaginal cells of the information culture — from eight-year-olds with fantasy amplifiers to knowledge engineers, from Ted Nelson to Murray Turoff, from Clyde Ghost Monster to Sourcevoid Dave, from ARPA to ORIGINS.
The flights of the infonauts are not the end of the journey begun by the patriarchs, but the beginning of the most dramatic software odyssey of them all. It is up to us to decide whether or not computers will be our masters, our servants, or our partners.
It is up to us to decide what human means, and exactly how it is different from machine, and what tasks ought and ought not to be trusted to either species of symbol-processing system. But some decisions must be made soon, while the technology is still young. And the deciding must be shared by as many citizens as possible, not just the experts. In that sense, the most important factor in whether we will all see the dawn of a humane, sustainable world in the twenty-first century will be how we deal with these machines a few of us thought up and a lot of us will be using."
The Schauberger CCC model:
Comprehend, Copy and Cooperate with Nature.
Viktor Schauberger - Comprehend and Copy Nature (Documentary of 2008)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Schauberger #Biophilia
"The man who invited Qi-Gong" - by John Voigt:
https://www.qigonginstitute.org/docs/The%20Man%20Who%20Invented%20Qigong-1.pdf
Anticipatory action learning: Theory and practice: http://www.metafuture.org/pdf/anticipatoryaction.pdf
Linking Foresights and Action: https://actionforesight.net/linking-foresight-and-action-3/
Urbz - an experimental action and research collective specialized in participatory planning and design: http://www.urbz.net/index.php/pointdujour
MindSpace: A Consultancy for urban regeneration in Budapest: https://cooperativecity.org/2019/03/07/mindspace-a-consultancy-for-urban-regeneration-in-budapest/
A new model of production for a new economy: https://p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/A-New-Model-of-Production-for-a-New-Economy-FINAL.pdf
Die Welt reparieren - Open Source und Selbermachen als postkapitalistische Praxis: http://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-3377-1/die-welt-reparieren/?number=978-3-8376-3377-1
Do it ourselves: Digital platform for self-organisation in urban planning - research through design: https://dspace.cc.tut.fi/dpub/bitstream/handle/123456789/26735/Mitish.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Urbanmetabolis: https://iabr.nl/media/document/original/urban_metabolism_rotterdam.pdf
Visionaries of Regenerative Design V: Victor Papanek (1927–1998): https://medium.com/@designforsustainability/visionaries-of-regenerative-design-v-victor-papanek-1927-1998-57019605997
Synthetic Overview of the Collaborative Economy: https://p2pfoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Synthetic-overview-of-the-collaborative-economy.pdf
Design as impulse for a regenerative economy - responsibility of design for industrial production: http://ipo.opencircularity.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/WeTurn_byMaxFabian.pdf
Frei, fair und lebendig – Die Macht der Commons: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4530-9/frei-fair-und-lebendig-die-macht-der-commons/?number=978-3-8394-4530-3
Cosmo-localization': can thinking globally and producing locally really save our planet? https://www.ouishare.net/article/cosmo-localization-can-thinking-globally-and-producing-locally-really-save-our-planet
Cosmo-localism and the futures of material production: https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/cosmo-localism-futures-material-production/2016/06/01
Cosmolocalism - design global, manufacture local: https://www.cosmolocalism.eu/
FabHub - Digital Design Made: https://www.fabhub.io
To Find Alternatives to Capitalism, Think Small - Why co-ops, regional currencies, and hackerspaces are pointing the way toward a new economic vision: https://www.thenation.com/article/to-find-alternatives-to-capitalism-think-small/
If a city is resilient, is it also sustainable? Researchers present a new framework to resolve this question: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-news/2019-04-09-if-a-city-is-resilient-is-it-also-sustainable.html
Energy Atlas 2018: Figures and Facts about Renewables in Europe: https://www.boell.de/en/energy-atlas-figures-and-facts-about-renewables-europe
Urban Systems Lab: http://urbansystemslab.com/projects
Patrick Geddes In India : From Synthesis To Integration: http://hodgers.com/mike/patrickgeddes/feature.html
https://primer.commonstransition.org/
https://thenatureofcities.eu/ - https://www.thenatureofcities.com/ - https://www.tnoc-summit.org/ - a movement for collaborative and transdisciplinary green cities.
Advertising, as seen in Berlin: 1. "Growth as a dead-end". 2. "Advertising annoys everyone".
"The wealth of the Commons - a world beyond market & state the boom of commons-based peer production" - by christian siefkes: http://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/boom-commons-based-peer-production #OpenSource #P2P #Economics
Umberto Eco proposed two models of reader/audience: one interested in the story, and one in the narrative strategy. We alternate between the two mindsets all the time.
Turkey's 1st intermodal cargo terminal to open in 2020: https://www.dailysabah.com/business/2019/05/13/turkeys-1st-intermodal-cargo-terminal-to-open-in-2020
The project, which has been developed over 10 years, is a version of a port located on land - dry port and it will serve both trucks and trains.A $60 million financing agreement was signed by Arkas Holding, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) Turkey during the EBRD Annual Meeting in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Thursday. The financing will be partly financed with loans of $30 million each from the EBRD and the ICBC Turkey.
"The financing agreement for the project, which has around $80 million investment value, shows foreign confidence in Turkey," Kalelioğlu said.
The German logistics company Duisport, which operates the world's largest intermodal cargo terminal, has around one-third of the stakes in Railport, he noted. He said that Railport would be a part of China's "One Belt, One Road" project, also known as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), an ambitious project to connect Asia with Africa and Europe via land and maritime networks to increase trade and stimulate economic growth.
Technology in a Post-Growth World: Lessons from the 1970s AT Movement - by J. M. Korhonen: https://jmkorhonen.net/2019/05/13/technology-in-a-post-growth-world-lessons-from-the-1970s-at-movement/ #Technology #Politics #HCI #FFHCI #Economics
Shōjin Ryōri Cooking is rooted in the concept that the earth and body are inseparable. It is only through attaining a perfect symbiosis with the land that we can truly reap the benefits of the earth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cuisine