Sep
23
Hazelnut Tech Talk Episode 11 | On The Road With The Infovore
Filed Under (Hazelnut Tech Talk, analogy, anthropology, context, cross disciplinary, delicious, feeding, life, new developments, new fields, new media, optimization, philosophy, rss, rss feeds, social media, statistics, strategy, technology) by Amber Case on 23-09-2008

 
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Hazelnut Tech Talk is a collaboration between Amber Case and Bram Pitoyo

This episode features Troy Harlan, wherein we talked about information gathering, filtering and consuming (naturally,) human factors, trilobites, reading at 2,000 words per minute, INTP’s, striving for objectivity, The Black Swan, hunches, and why it’s better to “have no map at all than have the wrong map”—all recorded on the road from St. Johns to downtown Portland.

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May
15
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Filed Under (anthropology, architect, architecture, christopher alexander, civil design, cyborg anthropology, design methods, pattern language, philosophy, synthesis of form, timeless way of building) by Amber Case on 15-05-2008

Notes on the Synthesis of Form. Christopher Alexander. Really widely applicable philosophy. Every architecture student is taught this, but hey are taught that it is very difficult to put these concepts into play, because it contradicts the institutional structures of architecture, because architects plan places beforehand in a very modular way.

Pattern Language

Christopher Alexander, an architect and author, coined the term pattern language. He used it to refer to common problems of civil and architectural design, from how cities should be laid out to where windows should be placed in a room. The idea was initially popularized in his book A Pattern Language.

Alexander’s book The Timeless Way of Building describes what he means by pattern language and how it applies to the design and construction of buildings and towns. However, the system has been used in many fields of design, from designing computer programs to designing a classroom curriculum.

The Oregon Experiment - his third book.

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