Hour of Ecology - by John Thackara
#Regenerative #Nature #Praxis #Upcycling #Philosophy #Design
tag > Design
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It was 1970 and 23 year old engineering student Gary Anderson invented the recycling logo. Today it is one of the most duplicated non-product logos in the world.
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Abstraction: Illustration from the cover of the Book "Exercises de style" - by Raymond Queneau
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A 'reduction' comic strip by Gilles Ciment, based on 'The Adventures of Tintin'
In the example below, Gilles Ciment, a co-founder of the Oubapo, presents a constraint called “reduction.” The challenge is to distill one of the standard 62-page stories of The Adventures of Tintin to as few as six images. Obviously, to some degree, the appreciation of such reductions relies on the readers knowledge of the source text, in this case Les cigares du pharaon.
In his “reduction,” Ciment seeks to valorize the “ligne claire” or “clean line,” one of the most distinctive formal characteristics of Hergé’s early albums. In deciding on his method, Ciment specified that he had to respect the order of the images in the narrative and limit his choices to key moments of the story, in order to simultaneously say something new and interesting about the story, the characters, and the author.
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"Garbage in, Garbage out" is a widespread notion in (Data) Science, Academia & Industry. It is an example of the limits of mechanical thinking, as they are missing an important concept: Composting.
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Wiki as Pattern Language - by Ward Cunningham & Michael W. Mehaffy
We describe the origin of wiki technology, which has become widely influential, and its relationship to the development of pattern languages in software. We show here how the relationship is deeper than previously understood, opening up the possibility of expanded capability for wikis, including a new generation of “federated” wiki
#OpenSource #Internet #Architecture #Design #CrowdIntelligence
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Boxes
“We have all to specialize, more or less — but whoever boxes himself in, tries to find the whole truth inside his box, knows nothing of other approaches to knowledge or is merely contemptuous of them, is working with only one hand and hopping on one foot, when he doesn’t need to.” - N. Meade Layne
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Flower of Life: Pattern that can be extended indefinitely
Shri Yantra: mystical diagram (yantra) used in the Shri Vidya school of Hinduism.
