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The usual definition of scale is the relationship of the human dimension to the environment. We talk about a building being “in scale” or “out of scale,” which is really nonsense. Most buildings that really count have multiple scales. Buildings need to be understandable in their varying dimensions – sight, sound, smell, relationship to their…
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iandeleonarts: “When entertainment frames the future, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. We create the world that we watched on screen as children. Everyday technology thrusts us into science fiction, because the aspirational promise of capitalism asserts that someday is always better than today.” – Martine Syms
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iandeleonarts: American Armada
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Likewise, the current opposition to massive open online courses (or MOOCs) has nothing to do with technophobia. Rather, it is driven by concerns about our ability to imagine and defend a future where education is still seen as a public good that is not fully reducible to market relations. Silicon Valley – and many neoliberals…
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syfycity: Learning On The Job
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humdropart: Woo! Scans of an 8-page mini-zine I made for a class presentation on Paulo Freire. Everyone loved it and I cant wait to make a bunch of copies and shower them all over! More people my age need to know this man.
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iandeleonarts: Silvano Lora La Ruta de Hatuey Performance tracing Taíno cacique Hatuey’s route to Cuba
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fyeahcuba: In 1511, Diego Velázquez set out from Hispaniola to conquer the island of Caobana (Cuba). He was preceded, however, by Hatuey, who fled Hispaniola with a party of four hundred in canoes and warned the inhabitants of Caobana about what to expect from the Spaniards. Bartolomé de Las Casas later attributed the following speech…
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mrtorres21: Design matters. It’s just not something you physically build. It’s a process, structures, frameworks as well. What is the purpose, what is the goal, what is the value, who benefits, what is the function, what is the form? Is it clear: purpose + goal + operation (good design). It’s problem finding, problem solving, and…
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Station to Station promised great artists and great art — a train tricked out with video screens dashing across the country — and instead we got some third rate Burning Man rip-off abbreviated rock show with smoke and mirrors, no art, no train, and everything but our DNA stripped at the door. Based on Levi’s…