29 de enero de 2013
Cities as Software
"Thinking about cities as a combination of ‘hardware’ (buildings, streets, parks) and ‘software’ (laws, rules, traditions, business models, cultural norms) is a useful conceptual model because it allows us to separate out things that are often conflated. A heritage building, for example, is hardware, because it has physical form. But it is also software, because it has cultural value and often a legal identity as having heritage value. The software determines what can be done with the hardware."
Allowing Innovation to Operate Without Capital
"the library as a platform for enabling innovation, learning and cultural development to occur in our communities without the need for capital."
Dematerialising
To me, really interesting view on the idea of city. It's really nice to see how the idea of an architecture that could be generated by the software is articulated. (Does software equal activities and relationships between those?)
This idea on libraries is articulated by Hugh Rundle here. Where the quotes and titles come from. This text was inspired by an incredible article by Marcus Westbury here.
"Thinking about cities as a combination of ‘hardware’ (buildings, streets, parks) and ‘software’ (laws, rules, traditions, business models, cultural norms) is a useful conceptual model because it allows us to separate out things that are often conflated. A heritage building, for example, is hardware, because it has physical form. But it is also software, because it has cultural value and often a legal identity as having heritage value. The software determines what can be done with the hardware."
Allowing Innovation to Operate Without Capital
"the library as a platform for enabling innovation, learning and cultural development to occur in our communities without the need for capital."
Dematerialising
To me, really interesting view on the idea of city. It's really nice to see how the idea of an architecture that could be generated by the software is articulated. (Does software equal activities and relationships between those?)
This idea on libraries is articulated by Hugh Rundle here. Where the quotes and titles come from. This text was inspired by an incredible article by Marcus Westbury here.
27 de enero de 2013
24 de enero de 2013
When everything goes well, I'm in like communist-like state of mind. I'm happy with black and plainness. It's almost like indifference.
Other times, when I feel vastly harmed...like undermined, I have the need for differentiation. Have the sense of uniqueness, of a collection of personal and unrepeatable moments.
It's at this point when I feel the need for make up. For darkness...a narrative, a cover up (a bit of drama or theatre).
-Those moments when faith in others is at stake.-
And its not the kind of infuriating sadness, the one full of energy, but the melancholic one, the one that feels that could go forever. The one that makes you fell like those beautiful memories will never come back again and every future moment won't be able to surpass any previous feeling of excitement or genuine happiness.
-That moment when faith in yourself is at stake-
Seriously. My mind is Roman ruins.
Other times, when I feel vastly harmed...like undermined, I have the need for differentiation. Have the sense of uniqueness, of a collection of personal and unrepeatable moments.
It's at this point when I feel the need for make up. For darkness...a narrative, a cover up (a bit of drama or theatre).
-Those moments when faith in others is at stake.-
And its not the kind of infuriating sadness, the one full of energy, but the melancholic one, the one that feels that could go forever. The one that makes you fell like those beautiful memories will never come back again and every future moment won't be able to surpass any previous feeling of excitement or genuine happiness.
-That moment when faith in yourself is at stake-
Seriously. My mind is Roman ruins.
