Blockly Developer Summit 2019: MakeCode Block Design - talk by Jacqueline Russell & Shannon Kao (2019)
Blockly: Using Block Based Coding in your App
tag > Design
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Australian Bushfires Reveal Hidden Sections of Ancient Aquaculture System
The eel-farming system of the Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is older than both Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids.
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Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both". It emerged in the early 1960s, but its definition has taken several decades to refine, its implementation is still undergoing adjustment, and its broader recognition as a new paradigm is relatively recent.
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Nike’s chief design officer on why the company is going all in on sustainability (inputmag)
"This is a fundamental pivot in the way we design and think, from how we source materials to how we make profit." - John Hoke, Nike’s chief design officer
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What I mean when I talk about more-than-human design - by Anne Galloway
"Agriculture is also one of humanity’s most heavily designed activities, which should remind us that it can be re-designed, and needs to be re-designed when it stops working for all of us."
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Ted Nelson VS The MIT Media Lab
"From that moment i figured he (Nicholas Negroponte, lab founder) was really a con man [...] The whole point of the Media Lab is "we know something that you don't know!" - to have strange projects no one could understand. [...] Negroponte is a politician, exchanging favours. [..] One day i asked Negroponte for his definition of media and he finally said 'Media is like Air!'. Con men and politicians aren't necessarily held to telling the truth at all." - Ted Nelson
"For over thirty years, the MIT Media Lab has done strange and mysterious things, using hype and hokum to impress the unwary and raise ever more money. Whereas the principles of interaction and media, as far as I'm concerned, are and always have been simple and powerful, with human creativity at the centre. The creative mentality of the film director is exactly what is needed in software - anticipating the user's understandings and expectations, and fulfilling them elegantly." - Ted Nelson
#Comment: It's worth adding that besides the (ongoing) onslaught of "strange projects know one could understand" (aka "Bullshit", as defined by Harry Frankfurt in his essay "On Bullshit" (PDF) ), the Media Lab (and the wider MIT) has been a premier "think tank" for the US military industrial complex. And thus, the media lab has proven the marvellous fact that fictitious techno-utopian bullshit pushed by con man politicians, is highly capable of killing a great many people in the real world.
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PERDIX - Fabricate any free-form 2D drawing at the nanometer scale using DNA (MIT)
PERDIX (Programmed Eulerian Routing for DNA Designs using X-overs) is a free, open-source resource for the fully autonomous design of arbitrary 2D scaffolded DNA origami nanostructures.
TALOS (Three-dimensional, Algorithmically-generated Library of DNA Origami Shapes) is a open-source, fully autonomous design algorithm for generating 3D nanometer-scale structures using DNA.
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Thinking about Practices - by Caminao (2013)
A theory (aka model) is a symbolic description of contexts and concerns. A practice is a set of activities performed in actual contexts. While the latter may be governed by the former and the former developed from the latter, each should stand on its own merits whatever its debt to the other. "Good practices hold sway without showing off theoretical subtext" - D.Chiparus.
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Emergent Design - Explorations in Systems Phenomenology in Relation to Ontology, Hermeneutics and the Meta-dialectics of Design - by Kent Duane Palmer (2009) (PDF)
Synopsis: A Phenomenological Analysis of Emergent Design is performed based on the foundations of General Schemas Theory. The concept of Sign Engineering is explored in terms of Hermeneutics, Dialectics, and Ontology in order to define Emergent Systems and Meta-systems Engineering based on the concept of Meta-dialectics.
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"I am not a tekkie; I call myself a systems humanist." - Ted Nelson
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Industrial Ecology Data Commons Prototype (IEDC)
This database contains more than 180 IE-related datasets from the literature, including stocks, flows, process descriptions, IO tables, material composition of products, and many more. All data are structured according to a newly developed general data model for socioeconomic metabolism. We want to show how data storage and exchange in sustainability science could look like in the future and developed some of the building blocks of the required infrastructure. The database is open and documented in a public GitHub repository.
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A sustainable society is the result of many different development strategies. These strategies include technical solutions like electric vehicles and renewable energies but also economic incentives, legal regulations, and changing social norms. Together, these strategies will transform society's biophysical basis to a more sustainable state. We help to design this transformation by estimating the maximal global emissions savings potential of specific strategies, by assessing their consequences on humans, industry, and nature, and by studying interactions between strategies. We model the biophysical basis of society as complex industrial ecosystem, focusing on industrial processes, especially those for metal production and refining, as the metal industries alone account for about one third of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions.
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Basics of Material Flow Analysis & Dealing with Uncertainties - by Oliver Cencic
Open Material Flow Analysis with STAN - by Oliver Cenčič
Dynamic Material Flow Analysis with Python - by Stefan Pauliuk
Paper: Material Flow Analysis with Software STAN - by Oliver Cencic & Helmut Rechberger
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The Polyculture Market Garden Study (2019)
The Polyculture Market Garden Study looks at the differences between growing annual vegetables and herbs in polycultures vs growing them in traditional blocks.
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Introduction to Arcadia Capella with a toy catapult project - Systems Engineering Webinar by Professor Peter L. Jackson (Head, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar at Singapore University of Technology & Design.) Tutorial: https://esd.sutd.edu.sg/40014-capella-tutorial/
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Ecology and Design: Parallel Genealogies - Ecological thinking remains a powerful lens for understanding complex adaptive systems. - by Chris Reed & Nina-Marie Lister (2014)
#Regenerative #Design #Architecture #ClimateChange #Complexity
