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What's the thing
we’ll realize here
and now
that
the future
will thank us for?
- SIMON NORRIS
What If, Could Be
An Historical Fable of the Future
Richard Saul Wurman
1976
What If, Could Be
An Historical Fable of the Future
Richard Saul Wurman
1976
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
(whole is greater than sum of its doubling by 15%)
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
FINITE-TIME
SINGULARITY
TIME
Adapted from Scale, Dr. Geoffrey West (2016)
TIME
SINGULARITY
Adapted from Scale, Dr. Geoffrey West (2016)
INNOVATION
SINGULARITY
TIME
Adapted from Scale, Dr. Geoffrey West (2016)
InformationArchitectureof This Mess
CARTESIAN
MODEL OF SPACE
“It Depends”
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace
Margaret Wertheim
1999
On the level playing field of Cartesian cosmology we are nowhere special
because the very definition of relativistic space guarantees that there is no place special to be
One use is as good as another, one life is as good as another –if the price is right.
This is the industrial doctrine of the interchangeability of parts, and we apply it to places, to creatures, and to our fellow humans as if it were the law of the world.
Bringing It to the Table - On Farming and Food
Wendell Barry
2009
ARRANGEMENT
OPTIMIZED FOR
UNBOUNDED
SUPERLINEAR
GROWTH
FOREVER
CARTESIAN
MODEL OF SPACE
“It Depends”
InformationArchitectureof This Mess
COMPLIMENTARY
METHODS
AND PRACTICES
InformationArchitectureof This Mess
CARTESIAN
MODEL OF SPACE
“It Depends”
ARRANGEMENT
OPTIMIZED FOR
UNBOUNDED
SUPERLINEAR
GROWTH
FOREVER
What's the thing
we’ll realize here
and now
that
the future
will thank us for?
- SIMON NORRIS
Oblique Strategies
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt
1975
axiom
1. A proposition which is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
2. A universally establishedprinciple or law that is nota necessary truth.
FormFollowsFunction
Zig-Zag Chair
Gerrit Rietveld
1934
YANYU FFF
Niels Bohr
1932
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
From The Surprising Math of Cities and Corporations, Dr. Geoffrey West (2011)
VALUE IS INHERENT
NOT “IT DEPENDS”
InformationArchitectureof The OppositeParadigm
All space and matter, organic or inorganic,
has some degree of life in it, and the
matter/space is more alive or less alive
according to its structure and arrangement.
The Nature Of Order - Book 1
Christopher Alexander
2002
Fountain
Marcel Duchamp
1917
Order isPrior to
Function
Julian Street Inn - Shelter for the Homeless Mentally Ill
Christopher Alexander
1990
Need is a ham
sandwich.
Function is the
movement of our
bowels.
- Richard Saul Wurman - Louis Kahn
“So that’s what I’m really getting at is
the existence of a level of thought or a
level of reality where order in space is
such a deep phenomenon that it’s
capable of generating all our activities
as architects or as builders and that
function, ornament, and what have you
will all come into play as byproducts of
that level of observation and thought.”
ARRANGEMENT
OPTIMIZED FOR
BOUNDED,
SUBLINEAR
GROWTH
VALUE IS INHERENT
NOT “IT DEPENDS”
InformationArchitectureof The OppositeParadigm
A city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time
Patrick Geddes
via @grescoe
COMPLIMENTARY
METHODS
AND PRACTICES
ARRANGEMENT
OPTIMIZED FOR
BOUNDED,
SUBLINEAR
GROWTH
VALUE IS INHERENT
NOT “IT DEPENDS”
InformationArchitectureof The OppositeParadigm
YouAnd Your UserAre One
The Nature Of Order - Book 1
Christopher Alexander
2002
I believe it is
in the nature
of matter,
that it is
soaked through
with self
YouAnd Your UserAnd The Thing You’re MakingAre One
Inherent value
is empirically
testable
through a
“mirror of self”
FACEYOURSELF
VALUE IS INHERENT
NOT “IT DEPENDS”
COMPLIMENTARY
METHODS
AND PRACTICES
ARRANGEMENT
OPTIMIZED FOR
BOUNDED,
SUBLINEAR
GROWTH
InformationArchitectureof The OppositeParadigm
Long Strange Trip
Amer Bar-Lev
2017
What would it be like
to live in a mental world
where one’s reasons
for making something
functionally
and one’s reasons
for making something
a certain shape,
or in a certain
ornamental way
are actually coming
from precisely
the same place
in you –
precisely
the same place.
- Christopher Alexander
PLEASEYOURSELF