Howard Roark

““there are two kinds of purposes. The purpose of having a result, something that exists after the process is stopped, and does not exist until it has stopped,…and there is the purpose of carrying on, of keeping the process going, just as one may breathe so as to continue breathing. The purpose is to carry on.””

- John Chris Jones

Doors of Perception weblog: ‘Reversing the reversal’ with john chris jones

Make: Online : Lego crawler town There it is,...

Tue, 17 Aug 2010 17:22:01 +0200

Make: Online : Lego crawler town

There it is, Archigram’s ‘Walking City’

Darren Wershler - McLuhan in Europe 2011 (by FutureEverything)

Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:18:00 +0200

Darren Wershler - McLuhan in Europe 2011 (by FutureEverything)

"We have the buzzwords – hive mind, economy of happiness, meta network. We need someone to stick out..."

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:25:43 +0200

“We have the buzzwords – hive mind, economy of happiness, meta network. We need someone to stick out their neck and sketch us a future. The problem with the future – the real future, not the tech-inspired dream future – is that it shows up consisting mostly of the past. Always has, always will, and in this case the past brings deep woes and ingrained habits. We need concrete suggestions to move thinking forward.”

- The Problem with the Future - Quentin Hardy - Neural Net Worth - Forbes (via wildcat2030)

sevensixfive: scipsy: Diagram of a conversation – Lucas...

Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:21:19 +0200

sevensixfive:

scipsy:

Diagram of a conversation – Lucas Reames

What if you could control a building with your mind? What if the buildings around you knew you were there? Not only that you were there, but what could be possible if buildings new the community of people that are present? In 2007, I presented a paper at the Shifting Positions: Bodies in Space Conference titled “Ambient Agents: Space, Architecture and The Self.” In this paper I think of a building to be very similar to how the physiology of the mind and body work, a series of mechanical, physical and biochemical reactions to an assumed set of circumstances. Buildings operate like this to some level already as a thermostat can control the airflow and temperature of a room. My interest though is how a more advanced version of assumed circumstances and reactions in a building can fundamentally change the space from both design and performance aspects by investigating “cognitive extensions of the mind in both physical and virtual spaces of a building” (Ambient Agents). There are two critical points that support this proposition. I used the following passage of the paper to describe how creating a building that acts as an appendage of the human body can create an very intimate relationship between a person and their environment:

“First, we must make a distinction between the mind and the body. The mind makes decisions and processes information. The body acts as an agent of the mind and executes the mind’s desires. Motor skills are then operated by commands sent through neural networks. We control our bodies implicitly because our muscles are directly connected to our mind. Because of this implicit and intimate connection, we associate the body with the self. We consider ourselves separate from our environment because all interactions with it are explicit and indirect, usually by means of our bodies.”

The second point has to do with my fascination with Gordon Pask’s Conversation Theory. Developing a Cybernetics System reinforces and develops the intimate relationship between a person and their environment. Breaking the mold of unidirectional communication of users opens a world of design and building performance opportunities.

COMPLEXITY GRAPHICS on the Behance Network

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:02:45 +0200

COMPLEXITY GRAPHICS on the Behance Network

Creative Review - Remodelling the World

Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:05:09 +0200

Creative Review - Remodelling the World

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:45:26 +0200

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

- Aristotle, Metaphysics (via thequotecollector) (via teachingliteracy) (via wildcat2030)

CBC News - Technology & Science - Phytoplankton vanishing...

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:44:14 +0200

CBC News - Technology & Science - Phytoplankton vanishing from warming oceans

"A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not..."

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:49:22 +0200

““A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.””

- Ivan Sutherland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia inventor of Sketchpad (the first CAD program and use of a genuine GUI)