Pinboard (robertogreco) https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/public/ recent bookmarks from robertogreco Resonant Computing Manifesto 2026-04-14T22:07:09+00:00 https://resonantcomputing.org/ robertogreco manifestos computing computers software ethics technology christopheralexander privacy ai artificialintelligence ecosystems adaptability society social connection coordination collaboration sharedspaces online internet web data power https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0cb58c6d5513/ In solarpunk cities of the future, tech follows nature’s lead | Aeon Essays 2026-02-10T21:34:30+00:00 https://aeon.co/essays/in-solarpunk-cities-of-the-future-tech-follows-natures-lead robertogreco solarpunk 2026 yogihalehendlin nature technology biophilia glennalbrecht arthurcclarke karlschroeder solar ecosystems environment biomimicry ecology sustainvalues agroecology agriculture culture landscape richardregister ernestcallenbach ecotopia christopheralexander ursulakleguin ursulaleguin paolosoleri architecture design romankrznaric wakanda starhawk robinwallkimmerer braidingsweetgrass pastoralism economics economy adamflynn society andrewism andrewsage neom saudiarabia toronto quayside yukhui hongkong juliawatson lo-tek khasi indigeneity indigenous buddhism self-suffiency urban urbanization futurism urbanplanning peace suffiency enough anthropocene interspecies multispecies morethanhuman sun ingenuity values inclusivity scarcity blackpanther theline https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a3e7234e36a2/ Do Buildings Reflect Spiritual Change? - Mockingbird 2026-01-16T08:24:37+00:00 https://mbird.com/religion/church/do-buildings-reflect-spiritual-change/ robertogrecoThere can be little doubt that the idea of God, as brought forth from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, has slowly become tired … to such an extent that it has difficulty fitting into everyday twenty-first-century discourse. As it stands, it is almost embarrassing to many people, in many walks of life. His early training revealed that “in an epoch when God was not acknowledged, it became virtually impossible for people to build the kinds of buildings where God appears.” He saw a different way: “I did maintain an inner knowing that the best way to produce good architecture must somehow be linked to God — indeed, that valuable architecture was always about God.” Alexander justified this conclusion by stating that “there are two approaches to the reality of God. One is faith; the other is reason. Faith works easily when it is present, but it is luck, or one’s early history in family life, or a blinding insight of some kind, that determines whether one has faith. Reason is much harder. One cannot easily approach the reality of God by means of reason. Yet in twentieth- and twenty-first-century discourse, reason is almost the only way we have of explaining a difficult thing so that another can participate.” Like myself, Alexander concluded, “I could no longer really avoid the topic of God.” But more than broad oaths of devotion and insight, Alexander offers an insight that is both rare and a more radical basis for architecture than any of his other well-known aesthetic insights. For him, his theories and practices add up to one point:
The tangible substance of architecture, the fact that in good architecture, every tiny piece is (by definition) suffused with God, either more or less, gives the concept of God a meaning essentially translated from the beauty of what may be seen in such a place, and so allows it to disclose God with unique clarity … If we pay attention to the beauty of those places that are suffused with God in each part, then we can conceive of God in a down-to-earth way … the path of architecture thus leads inexorably towards a renewed understanding of God.
And mercy — in grace."]]> duodicson 2026 buildings spirituality mercy grace architecture design christopheralexander humanity humanism education apatternlanguage cormacfitzgerald aurorathompson religion christianity god churches beauty aesthetics faith winstonchurchill lukdevolder forgiveness https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:52d0775bc725/ For want of a story - by Matthew Battles 2025-12-24T06:40:59+00:00 https://matthewbattles.substack.com/p/for-want-of-a-story robertogreco matthewbattles teaching howweteach pedagogy education highered highereducation learning howwelearn christopheralexander shopfrontschools networkedlearning paulelie pilgrimage workgroups social fellowship trust patterns apatternlanguage 2025 saraishikawa murraysilverstein presence process sharedstory story shelter intimacy uncertainty vulnerability https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:69ff66758f08/ The Rise and Fall of Urbit | Compact 2025-09-24T17:35:48+00:00 https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-of-urbit/ robertogreco urbit tlon technofeudalism libertarianism politics curtisyarvin darkenlightenment 2025 adinaglickstein web3 crypto cryptocurrencies blockchain computing computers internet web online platforms decentralization networks rominamalta centralization hierarchy hierarchies vitalikbuterin johnperrybarlow cyberspace networkeffects galenwolfe-pauly ethereum peterthiel feudalism christopheralexander honorlevy speculation monetization ponzischemes 2020 2013 1996 2010s tescreal 2016 2021 2019 2022 reactionaries joshlehmann self-publishing nickland hypersition technology corydoctorow bigtech enshittification megacorp privacy security 2023 christophercolby conservatism delusion urbitfoundation transparency governance francistseng philosophy monarchism corporatism data sovereignty social nerdreich singularity singularitarianism extropianism rationalism cosmism longtermism transhumanism extroprianism effectivealtruism menciusmoldbug capitalism fascism technofascism https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:65c8c618e20f/ Tour: A Warm Writers’ House on an Island in the Pacific Northwest - YouTube 2025-09-22T05:51:03+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxoGsSnGi8 robertogreco christopheralexander apatternlanguage 2025 1977 whidbeyisland washingtonstate architecture design homes houses https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9fe9b26f8ead/ Hints from Japan's hillsides - by Sam Holden 2025-09-03T04:12:32+00:00 https://www.samholden.jp/p/hints-from-japans-hillsides robertogreco2024 samholden japan slopes hills cities urban urbanism landscape hillsides onomichi craigmod elevation walking tokyo shunyayoshimi kobe nagasaki hakodate atami yokohama kure yokosuka christopheralexander maps mapping topography shioyaproject shinjiishii culture https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e96efe023639/ Christopher Alexander 2025-05-02T04:07:41+00:00 https://web.archive.org/web/20200414182223/http://zeta.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/Chris.text.html robertogrecochristopheralexander https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3a2f42794f9f/ Precariat Blues - by Rosie Whinray - Dear Magician 2024-10-06T05:45:52+00:00 https://rosiewhinray.substack.com/p/precariat-blues robertogreco rosiewhinray 2024 housing homes precarity animism home renting stuff gentrification citizenship denizenship writing howwewrite eulabiss landlords precariat safety hierarchy marchamer newzealand economics creativity livingconditions deborahlevy inequality guystanding ursulaleguin whauden christopheralexander apatternlanguage ursulakleguin https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c320863f1389/ The Architecture of Prayer - Comment Magazine church architecture 2024-05-25T19:27:06+00:00 https://comment.org/the-architecture-of-prayer/ robertogreco architecture 2024 prayer churches design amandaiglesias matthewmilliner faith catrhedrals chapels interiors senegal southafrica berlin christianity davidschaengold denmark rudolfschearz germany davidhotson history rome italy china ostudio duncanstroik franklloydwright louissullivan chicago tadaoando studiogang knowing being armeniangenocide rudolfschwarz ingerexner johannesexner adamcaruso helenthomas duren davidshaengold stevenholl philipbess marktorgerson richardkieckhefer karlabritton gretchenbuggeln philipjenkins vincebantu steynstudio insitu cambodia marlonblackwell arkansas uruguay mapaarquitectos 100foldstudio christopheralexander erikadoss timelessness romanoguardini miesvanderrohe florasamuel ingelinder-gaillard lecorbusier inoutarchitettura ladoarchitetti lamber+lamber rudolphreitermann cslewis pilgrimage italia https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4b8e34f682a1/ Attending to Technology: Theses for Disputation 2022-12-11T07:30:06+00:00 https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/attending-to-technology-theses-for-disputation robertogreco2016 alanjacobs technology surveillance attention conviviality luddism mindfulness matthewcrawford evgenymorozov simoneweil charlestaylor christopheralexander apatternlanguage seangallagher adnuttall facebook mondragon paulgriffiths paulford mikhailbakhtin charlessimic nietzsche frankkermode literature writing kevinkelly nedo'gorman georgebernardshaw cyborgs twitter socialmedia kant umbertoeco richardrorty johnruskin cslewis tomhiddleston alextabarrok turingtest jaronlanier virginiawoolf mauricemerleau-ponty ivanillich toolsforconviviality immanuelkant luddites https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:49fb85a8f1db/ Books with unusual but brilliant structures - Austin Kleon 2020-08-21T16:39:16+00:00 https://austinkleon.com/2020/08/20/books-with-unusual-but-brilliant-structures/ robertogreco austinkleon 2020 structure writing howwewrite howweread reading thinking linear alinear nonlinear johnmcphee form storytelling sarahmanguso cyoa interactivefiction if maggienelson richardmcguire christopheralexander apatternlanguage alanfletcher tristamshandy carmenmariamachado sarahbroom isabelwilkerson lewishyde anniedillard samanderson seishonagon zuihitsu hojoki janealison narrative chrisware markdanielweski pamerlacolloff thoreau ralphwaldoemerson linearity https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2b38915b55f0/ Local Area Network 2019-05-08T21:26:41+00:00 http://designforthe.net/workshops/lan/ robertogreco mindyseu jürglehni jongacnik p2p p2pweb beakerbrowser dat christopheralexander apatternlanguage janejacobs vannevarbush tednelson maartenhajer arnoldreijndorp kevbewersdorf laurelschwulst 2018 local grassroots publishing p2ppublishing web webdev webdesign garrying michèkechampagne gregsmith wholeearthcatalog manifestos survivalguide decentralizedweb https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:bc4febf40080/ Making the Garden by Christopher Alexander | Articles | First Things 2017-11-12T19:10:47+00:00 https://www.firstthings.com/article/2016/02/making-the-garden robertogreco 2016 christopheralexander architecture urban urbanism design wholeness value spirituality god religion enlightenment beauty aesthetics form shape https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b8f9d2e252cc/ Building Flexible Design Systems // Speaker Deck 2017-11-02T01:49:12+00:00 https://speakerdeck.com/yeseniaperezcruz/building-flexible-design-systems robertogreco design webdesign webdev yeseniaperez-cruz listening obsrvation systemsthinking flexibility systems layout scenarios patterns christopheralexander donellameadows audience content modularity customization designsystems https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:18d8142e6dd9/ The Art of Teaching 2017-06-27T05:07:36+00:00 http://taeyoonchoi.com/artofteaching/#/ robertogreco taeyoonchoi education teaching purpose routine ritual silence flow conflict communication structure nurture authority kojinkaratani jean-lucnancy community howweteach pedagogy learning howwelearn eyeo2017 unlearning curriculum syllabus sfpc schoolforpoeticcomputation art craft beauty utility generosity sfsh tcsnmy lcproject openstudioproject classideas cv reciprocity gifts kant discretion instruction discipline johndewey bmc blackmountaincollege justice annialbers stndardization weaving textiles making projectbasedlearning materials progress progressive unschooling deschooling control experimentation knowledge fabrication buckminsterfuller constructivism constructionism georgehein habit freedom democracy judithbutler sunaurataylor walking christinesunkim uncertainty representation intervention speculation simulation christopheralexander objectives outcomes learningoutcomes learningobjectives remembering creativity evaluation application analysis understanding emancipation allankaprow judychicago suzannelacy l https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7bd2f4fe549b/ Wildflower Montessori 2017-03-16T04:22:11+00:00 http://wildflowerschools.org/about robertogreco committed to remaining small, teacher-led, integrated in the community, and responsive to the needs of children Inspired by the work of Christopher Alexander, Wildflower schools are shopfront schools that consist of a single classroom, with the faculty both teaching in the classroom and administrating the school. By preserving a small scale, teachers are able to make decisions in their day-to-day teaching that respond to the intellectual needs of the children, and are able to make decisions on a school-wide basis that respond to their own vision and the contextual needs of the families. The shopfront model also allows these communities to seamlessly integrate into neighborhoods. Children are visible in the community as they walk to and from school, to their local playground or garden, and to civic spaces that would otherwise be on-site in a larger institution. 3. A Lab School: serving as a research setting dedicated to advancing the Montessori Method in the context of the modern world. Each of the Wildflower schools serves as a lab school to help us better understand and advance the Montessori Method, and to help us propose empirically-supported design for new materials. We seek to integrate modern technologies in observation and documentation without changing the concrete, didactic nature of the classroom itself. We further seek to refine the development of Montessori-consistent apparatuses that prepare children for the cognitive patterns of modern fluencies. 4. A Seamless Learning Community: blurring the boundaries of home-schooling and institutional schooling by placing high priority on parent education and giving parents and integral role in the classroom. Wildflower schools look for ways in which children's home, school, and community environments can offer more seamless experiences, reflecting consistent perspectives on children's development and engaging them as authentic contributors in each setting. We believe that parents and families offer a knowledge about children which is equally important to the professional preparation of teachers, and seek opportunities for parent-knowledge to inform classroom practice and teacher-knowledge to inform the home. 5. An Artist-in-residence: bringing richness to the learning environment by giving the children opportunities to observe and interact with adults doing day-to-day creative work. Because we believe that children learn best in environments that model lifelong learning and creativity, each Wildflower school engages an artist-in-residence. Each school offers their artist studio space in a place accessible to the children, where the children can see them doing the work of their lives. In exchange, artists offer their work back to the classroom weekly, teaching children about their craft and helping children to develop their own skills. Through the artists-in-residence program, we seek to increase the awareness of the inner lives of children available to artists of all kinds and to protect children's understanding that learning and creating can happen throughout their lives and beyond their formal school experiences. 6. A spirit of generosity: Reflecting a spirit of generosity to all stakeholders, to children, to parents, to those in need, and to the local community. Often, schools are seen as a service relationship, with parents as customers, teachers as service-providers, and children as recipients of the service, to be filled with information and assessed. We see it differently -- we see that each constituency brings their special gift to one another. We see the teachers bring the gift of their love and skillfulness to the children and the parents, the parents bring the gift of nurturing and advancing the teachers in their practice and growth as teachers and leaders, and the children bring the gift of helping all of us see in a new way.  Importantly, this spirit of gift extends beyond the walls of the school: each school seeks to bring their gifts to the broader community, by being involved in the local community, by making educational opportunities that are free to the public, and by reserving slots in our schools for those in need. 7. An Attention to Nature: emphasizing the nonseparation between nature and human nature through a unique living-classroom design and extensive time in nature. It is both a contemporary imperative and an essential quality of our design that we think proactively about the impact of our work on the environment around us. By limiting the footprint of each school to a storefront, we necessarily limit the availability of private, outdoor space. Instead, we design the interior of the school to allow children to learn to care for their living environment and to surround them with abundant plant life. We site schools near to public play spaces and work with city partners to design sustainable urban gardens for which the school and neighborhood community can care. We carefully consider the materials used in the classroom and choose sustainable, nontoxic and earth-friendly options. Finally, we maintain nutritional standards that are earth-conscious and protect natural, healthful diets for children. 8. A Role in Shaping the Neighborhood: working with the community to improve local parks, streets, and establishments to create an urban environment that is healthier for children. Wildflower schools should change the way their immediate communities function and, as a part of a larger network, change the nature of their entire cities. The integration of children and families into the daily fabric of the neighborhood, we believe, will influence the lives of other neighbors, the questions asked in other educational settings, and the priorities of policymakers. We implement, then, structures that make our work transparent to their communities and expand who we define as "stakeholders" to include more than just the families we serve. From opportunities for passers-by to stop and observe the classrooms to the presence of children in local eateries, from the public gardens we create and tend, to the regular, open information sessions to inform our community about our work, we judge our approach not only by its influence on enrolled children and their families but on the city beyond our rolls. 9. An Open-source Design and Decentralized Network: advancing an ecosystem of independent Wildflower schools that mutually support one another. Finally, we recognize that issues of scale -- including increased centralized decision-making, larger administrative bureaucracies and operational overhead -- decrease the autonomy available to individual classrooms. At the same time, we value the practical benefits of a community of learners and professionals working together, and the economic efficiencies that can arise from shared resources. To balance those concerns, each school sees itself as a node in a network, maintaining autonomy in school-level decision-making while able to access the resources of the network when those resources are useful and compelling to the school. Reciprocally, each school also sees itself not only as responsible for its own operations, but as responsible for helping other schools in the network, and for helping other interested family groups to start their own Wildflower schools."]]> schools education small microschools montessori via:aimee opensource homeschool christopheralexander labschools networks community art generosity urban cities lcproject sfsh openstudioproject decentralization sepkamvar https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:3e97c2b0df30/ Learning Gardens 2016-12-20T19:35:47+00:00 http://learning-gardens.co/ robertogreco>> intersectional thinking Utopia School [http://www.utopiaschool.org/ ] Utopia School is an ongoing project that shares information about both failed and successful utopian projects and work towards new ones. For us, utopias are those spaces and initiatives that re-imagine the world in some crucial way. The school engages and connects people through urgent conversations, with the goal of exploring, archiving and distributing collective knowledge throughout this multi-city project. A Pattern Language [https://github.com/learning-gardens/pattern_language ] Biweekly reading group on A Pattern Language, attempting to reinterpret the book for the current-day." [See also: "Getting Started with Learning Gardens: An introduction of sorts" http://learning-gardens.co/2016/08/13/getting_started.html "Hi, welcome to this place. If you’re reading this, you’re probably wondering where to start! Try sifting through some links on our site, especially our resources, Github Organization, and Google Drive. If you’re tired of reading docs and this website in general, we’d highly recommend you join our lively community in real time chat. We’re using Slack for this. It’s great. When you enter the chat, you’ll be dumped in a channel called #_landing_pad. This channel is muted by default so that any channels you join feel fully voluntary. We’ve recently started a system where we append any ”Learning Gardens”-related channels with an underscore (_), so it’s easy to tell which channels are meta (e.g. #_help), and which are related to actual learning groups (e.g. #cybernetics). Everything is up for revision." ]]]> education learninggardens learningnetworks networks slack aldgdp artschools learning howwlearn sfsh self-directed self-directedlearning empowerment unschooling deschooling decentralization transparency accessibility bookclubs readinggroups utopiaschool apatternlanguage christopheralexander pedagogy pedagogyplaylab cyberneticsclub emulatingintelligence pixellab games gaming videogames mondays creativity multidisciplinary crossdisciplinary interdisciplinary ai artificialintelligence distributed online web socialmedia édouardurcades artschool https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c5efe958e4b2/ intimacy gradients - Text Patterns - The New Atlantis 2016-04-08T03:05:47+00:00 http://text-patterns.thenewatlantis.com/2014/09/intimacy-gradients.html robertogrecoThe street cafe provides a unique setting, special to cities: a place where people can sit lazily, legitimately, be on view, and watch the world go by... Encourage local cafes to spring up in each neighborhood. Make them intimate places, with several rooms, open to a busy path, where people can sit with coffee or a drink and watch the world go by. Build the front of the cafe so that a set of tables stretch out of the cafe, right into the street. That's the passage as quoted in the book's Wikipedia page. But if you actually look at that section of the book, you'll see that the authors place a great deal of emphasis on the need for the ideal street café to create intimacy as well as public openness. Few people want always to "be on view"; some people almost never do. Therefore,
In addition to the terrace which is open to the street, the cafe contains several other spaces: with games, fire, soft chairs, newspapers.... This allows a variety of people to start using it, according to slightly different social styles.
And "When these conditions are present" — all of these conditions, the full appropriate range of intimacy gradients — "and the cafe takes hold, it offers something unique to the lives of the people who use it: it offers a setting for discussions of great spirit — talks, two-bit lectures, half-public, half-private learning, exchange of thought." Twitter actually has a pretty highly developed set of intimacy gradients: public and private accounts, replies that will be seen automatically only by the person you’re replying to and people who are connected to both of you, direct messages, and so on. Where it fails is in the provision of “intimate places”: smaller rooms where friends can talk without being interrupted. It gives you the absolute privacy of one-to-one conversations (DMs) and it gives you all that comes with “being on view” at a table that extends “right into the street,” where anyone who happens to go by can listen in or make comments; but, for public accounts anyway, not much in between. And you know, if you’re using a public Twitter account, you can’t really complain about this. If you tweet something hoping that your friends will notice and respond, that’s fine; but you’re not in a small room with just your friends, you’re in a vast public space — you’re in the street. And when you stand in the street and make a statement through a megaphone, you can’t reasonably be offended if total strangers have something so say in reply. If you want to speak only to your friends, you need to invite them into a more intimate space. And as far as I can tell, that’s what private Twitter accounts provide: a place to talk just with friends, where you can’t be overheard. Now, private accounts tend to work against the grain of Twitter as self-promotion, Twitter as self-branding, Twitter as “being on view.” And if we had to choose, many of us might forego community for presentation. But we don’t have to choose: it’s possible to do both, to have a private and a public presence. For some that will be too much to manage; for others, perhaps for many others, that could be where Twitter is headed. Okay, I’m done talking about Twitter. Coming up in the next week: book reports."]]> alanjacobs 2014 intimacygradients apatternlanguage christopheralexander cities twitter society sociology internet culture architecture space public private privacy https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:0fd218821e6b/ From AI to IA: How AI and architecture created interactivity - YouTube 2016-02-06T05:55:13+00:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyqoehKyVhY robertogreco mollysteenson 2016 ai artificialintelligence douglasenglebart symbiosis augmentation christopheralexander nicholasnegroponte richardsaulwurman architecture physical digital mitmedialab history mitarchitecturemachinegroup technology compsci computerscience cybernetics interaction structures computing design complexity frederickbrooks computers interactivity activity metaphor marvinminsky heuristics problemsolving kent wardcunningham gangoffour objectorientedprogramming apatternlanguage wikis agilesoftwaredevelopment software patterns users digitalspace interactiondesign terrywinograd xeroxparc petermccolough medialab https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:92771fad8786/ A Pattern Language : Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive 2015-11-15T21:13:07+00:00 https://archive.org/details/APatternLanguage robertogrecoapatternlanguage christopheralexander books https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8b1b1e786804/ 002_2 : by hand 2015-10-31T06:31:00+00:00 http://a-small-lab.com/text/002_2/ robertogreco play gardening aiweiwei ivanillich christopheralexander murraybookchin anarchism anarchy life living jacquesellul remkoolhaas zizek richardsennett johnzerzan raoulvaneigem reality consumerism society pleasure gardens space bernardstiegler marcaugé flows grammes yi-futuan sace commoditization experience buckminsterfuller flexibilty understanding adaptation https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:41646486b852/ CTheory.net: Conversations in Critical Making: 6 Critique and Making 2015-08-15T21:09:02+00:00 http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=757 robertogreco alexandergalloway garnethertz speculativedesign criticaldesign communism motivation capitalism economics makers making makermovement 2015 anthonydunne fionaraby dunne&raby christopheralexander geertlovink matthewfuller tizianaterranova criticalartensemble mckenziewark guydebord digitalculture diy culture richardsennett matthewcrawford markfrauenfelder phenomenology karlmarx kant immanuelkant deleuze gillesdeleuze https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:94861cdffcb5/ The Lives of Children, by George Dennison 2014-08-06T21:06:56+00:00 http://www.spinninglobe.net/spinninglobe_html/lives.htm robertogreco georgedennison small tinyschools minischools paulgoodman education openstudioproject learning children lcproject 1969 groupsize classsize teaching christopheralexander apatternlanguage https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:335febd43f0a/ It's Nice That : Bookshelf this week comes out of Brooklyn and the library of The Believer's online editor, Max Fenton 2012-07-31T05:20:33+00:00 http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/bookshelf-max-fenton robertogreco maxfenton booklists books toread walterbenjamin nickharkaway 2012 frankchimero johnberger jackgilbert rebeccasolnit sheilaheti wendywalker henrywessells adamlevin desmondmorris lists christopheralexander https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:f859cdde25ff/ Webstock '12: Erin Kissane - Little Big Systems on Vimeo 2012-03-18T06:44:26+00:00 https://vimeo.com/38458933 robertogreco publishing apprenticeships masters craftsman'stime time slow small scale handcrafted artifacts systems systemsthinking apatternlanguage christopheralexander design contentstrategy content 2012 webstock webstock12 erinkissane humanscale craft craftsmanship https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:5346fde32db3/ Plotto 2012-02-20T08:54:25+00:00 http://www.npr.org/2012/02/19/146941343/plotto-an-algebra-book-for-fiction-writing robertogreco thinking books rolandbarthes christopheralexander maxfenton weegee interactivefiction if via:litherland paulcollins cyoa https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:eef763d22177/ The Radical Technology of Christopher Alexander | Metropolis POV | Metropolis Magazine 2011-10-09T04:58:10+00:00 http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20110906/the-radical-technology-of-christopher-alexander robertogreco christopheralexander apatternlanguage planning architecture urbanism design lcproject patterns adaptivedesign 2011 resilience culture sustainability functionality unschooling deschooling systems systemsthinking https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:7a6df0a50b6d/ Architecture needs to interact - Op-Ed - Domus 2011-06-27T07:35:31+00:00 http://www.domusweb.it/en/op-ed/architecture-needs-to-interact/ robertogreco architecture design interdisciplinary multidisciplinary crossdisciplinary crosspollination mollywrightsteenson fredscharmen mit medialab nicholasnegroponte janejacobs christopheralexander cedricprice archigram reynerbanham urbancomputing interactiondesign networkarchitecture billmoggridge billverplank ideo philtabor 2011 mitmedialab https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:d49c0a964e00/ Not in isolation / from a working library 2010-12-11T19:31:07+00:00 http://aworkinglibrary.com/library/archives/not_in_isolation/ robertogreco meaning making connectedness creating apatternlanguage christopheralexander glvo repair repairing isolation longhere bignow relationships context nature make lcproject decentralization schools education https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:dcdff586d13f/ P.O.S.Z.U. » Learning from A Pattern Language 2010-09-27T22:30:05+00:00 http://www.poszu.com/2010/06/22/learning-from-a-pattern-language/ robertogreco christopheralexander apatternlanguage education learning urban urbanism schools decentralization apprenticeships deschooling unschooling tcsnmy openstudio life glvo sharing openschools teaching lcproject 1977 https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9fb99e81513e/ sevensixfive: Losing My Edge: Architectural Informatics (and others) 2009-12-31T05:01:05+00:00 http://765.blogspot.com/2009/12/losing-my-edge-architectural.html robertogreco design architecture history discipline discourse crossdisciplinary multidisciplinary crosspollination janejacobs christopheralexander archigram fredscharmen interaction interactiondesign reanissance academia patronage servicedesign situationist theory criticaltheory via:migurski baltimore cities culture designthinking interdisciplinary urbanism https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:a6764b7fe06b/ The enduring influence of architect Christopher Alexander, author of A Pattern Language. - By Witold Rybczynski - Slate Magazine 2009-12-09T06:09:48+00:00 http://www.slate.com/id/2237109/ robertogreco christopheralexander apatternlanguage art architecture books urban sustainability development planning programming building design designpatterns witoldrybczynski https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:70edfff083bf/ Tuttle SVC: World System A and World System B 2008-07-30T02:43:10+00:00 http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2008/07/world-system-and-world-system-b.html robertogrecoSystem A is what we might call "The ordinary way". This is Hosoi's name for it. It is the way of building in which people who use buildings take part in creating them. They take part in laying them out. Money is used and allocated, according to the needs of the project, and according to the wishes of the people who use the buildings. The construction is managed directly, under a system of control which is close to the users. While the buildings are being built, they are adapted gradually. What turns out to be better slowly replaces what is less good. The architect or person in charge of building, is truly in charge of "building", not of paper. Things are done according to the dictates of the human heart. All in all, it is the system of common sense. Oddly enough, this is not the system of construction which we know today. System B is a system controlled by images. It is a system in which control of the system is extremely indirect. It is a system in which the users rarely, if at all, have any measure of control over the actual layout or design of buildings. It is a system in which big money, loanes and mortgages control the process. The dictates of big money, of permission, and of profit, create conditions in which the quality that is obtained is defined solely by images, not by real human feelings. The architects who produce these images are concerned mainly with the images they create, not with the buildings themselves. The success or failure of these images is defined by photographs in glossy magazines, not by heartfelt approval of the users. In fact the users rarely express their approval or disapproval of the projects they inhabit, except in so far that they themselves become part and parcel of the system of images, and then feel honored because the images have been made to seem important to them. Common sense is not a part of system B. Oddly enough, this is the sytem which is in widespread use today. Its use is so widespread, and its existence so widely accepted, that most people assume that it is the correct and only way to build. They have forgotten, or most often do not know, that any other system ever existed."]]> christopheralexander architecture design buildings schooldesign process collaboration collaborative japan lcproject space place participatory https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:18df26f4281c/ Juan Freire - From the Analogue Commons to the New Hybrid Public Spaces | Technophobiac News 2008-06-10T10:04:14+00:00 http://news.technophobiac.com/2008/05/28/juan-freire-from-the-analogue-commons-to-the-new-hybrid-public-spaces-2/ robertogreco architecture cities future play theory ubicomp via:cityofsound opensource software technology mediart hacking urbanism urban juanfreire commons public space society futurism environment sustainability activism resources sociology economics government systems law patents regulation freedom anticommons larrylessig innovation creativecommons cc capitalism modernism postmodernism remkoolhaas christopheralexander junkspace non-space advertising shopping janejacobs growth wealth well-being stephendownes social art diy make situationist security control internet wellbeing https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6e48def9703d/ Second order design and play in A Pattern Language (Leapfroglog) 2008-03-07T13:48:03+00:00 http://leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/2008/03/02/second-order-design-and-play-in-a-pattern-language/ robertogreco play design via:migurski christopheralexander apatternlanguage architecture social socialnetworks socialsoftware https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:adf006e70751/ Amazon.com: Architecture for Achievement: Building Patterns for Small School Learning: Books: Victoria Bergsagel,Tim Best,Kathleen Cushman,David Stephen,Lorne McConachie,Wendy Sauer 2007-11-21T09:22:36+00:00 http://www.amazon.com/Architecture-Achievement-Building-Patterns-Learning/dp/097967770X robertogreco books schools schooldesign learning planning architecture design christopheralexander https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:e49ddfe4ffce/ Tuttle SVC: Deschooling & Freedom to Roam 2007-07-26T03:53:04+00:00 http://www.tuttlesvc.org/2007/07/deschooling-freedom-to-roam.html robertogrecoAs a child, Goodman freely roamed the streets and public libraries of his native New York City, experiences which later inspired his radical concept of "the educative city"). This concept is best expressed in his novel The Empire City. But if we are to try to pull this take on "de-schooling" up to the present day, we need to take some broader cultural changes into effect. Specifically, the collapse of young people's freedom to roam. This article from The Daily Mail nicely charts the changes experience by one family over four generations, which seems typical. Great-grandfather George, born in 1911, same as Paul Goodman, at age 8 walked six miles unaccompanied through Sheffield to fish. Today, his great-grandson Ed, also at age 8, has a permitted range of about 300 yards (the map representation of this is recommended). If we are going to de-emphasize school, we have to explain where students are going to go and how they are going to get there, and how this will be sold politically. In the US, that is a non-trivial problem, in terms of parents' expectations, lack of public transportation, lack of public space, separation of work and residence, class segregation, etc. The necessary components to an urban "Network of Learning" are laid out in Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language:
Above all, encourage the formation of seminars and workshops in people's homes - Home Workshop (157); make sure that each city has a "path" where young children can safely wander on their own - Children In The City (57); build extra public "homes" for children, one to every neighborhood at least - Children's Home (86); create a large number of work-oriented small schools in those parts of town dominated by work and commercial activity - Shopfront Schools (85); encourage teenagers to work out a self-organized learning society of their own - Teenage Soclety (84); treat the university as scattered adult learning for all the adults in the region - University As A Marketplace (43); and use the real work of professionals and tradesmen as the basic nodes in the network - Master And Apprentices (83) ....
Now, I'm in favor of all this stuff, but we have to be mindful of how hard it cuts against the zeitgeist and how ill-suited our communities are to support this kind of learning. Certainly technology can support and enhance learning networks -- and I'm only thinking about primary and secondary age learners here -- but I contend that the physical network of learning is still most important, and I'll take good community-based schools over any "de-schooling" that circumscribes kids to their own houses and corporate franchises."]]> deschooling learning education schools alternative homeschool networks lcproject christopheralexander ivanillich paulgoodman culture society change reform https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4bd5d8d8f4ce/ 157 Home Workshop [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T03:35:31+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl157.htm robertogreco christopheralexander design change homes housing work hobbies learning society urban lcproject glvo apatternlanguage unschooling deschooling studios studioclassroom decentralization schools education aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:9898bb9d530d/ 84 Teenage Society [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T03:33:54+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl084.htm robertogreco christopheralexander architecture design schools education learning highschool teens adulthood maturity reform schooldesign schooling deschooling chnage policy lcproject apatternlanguage unschooling studioclassroom openstudioproject decentralization aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:c6abd6b30d30/ 83 Master And Apprentices [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T03:06:15+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl083.htm robertogreco christopheralexander learning change deschooling apprenticeships work reform schools lcproject networks social society apatternlanguage unschooling mentoring mentors decentralization education aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:b0b51a6a074f/ 43 University As Marketplace [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T03:04:55+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl043.htm robertogreco christopheralexander learning education schools schooldesign schooling lcproject deschooling reform change alternative design networks apatternlanguage decentralization aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:8dbf3f294bab/ 85 Shopfront Schools [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T03:00:05+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl085.htm robertogreco christopheralexander schools schooldesign reform change lcproject learning organizations community urban design teaching children networks apatternlanguage studioclassroom unschooling deschooling openstudioproject paulgoodman georgedennison decentralization education aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:1b72cba4a4f6/ 86 Children's Home [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T02:51:16+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl086.htm robertogreco children parenting teaching schools childcare learning homes lcproject society relationships christopheralexander patterns design apatternlanguage unschooling deschooling decentralization education aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:082981c6f507/ 57 Children In The City [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T02:49:11+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl057.htm robertogreco children cities safety learning adolescence exploration adulthood design urban bikes life lcproject christopheralexander architecture society thechildinthecity apatternlanguage unschooling deschooling decentralization schools education aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:2e5f8726258a/ 18 Network Of Learning [from A Pattern Language] 2007-07-26T02:26:07+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/patterns/apl018.htm robertogreco deschooling education history learning networks lcproject books christopheralexander ivanillich architecture compulsory compulsoryschooling apatternlanguage unschooling decentralization schools aplschools https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4a04bed21f47/ A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander [full text with hyperlinks] 2007-07-26T02:26:04+00:00 http://www.ahartman.com/apl/set.htm robertogreco christopheralexander architecture design language maps nature patterns philosophy sustainability space symbols lcproject usability books tools apatternlanguage mapping https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:4af6dc4c6078/ Pattern language - Wikipedia 2007-07-26T02:25:57+00:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language robertogreco architecture design development education grammar language linguistics patterns reading reference process lcproject theory christopheralexander apatternlanguage https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:712d68850e77/