Fireside Chats with Empathic Futures Lab
Arts:Design
This week we got the conversation kicked off with a segway from Molly Wright Steenson's Architectural Intelligence. Here she introduced both of us to a fresh take on the work of Christopher Alexander, and because of this we decided to dedicate a full episode to exploring the structure of A Pattern Language. We initially looked at the comparison drawn between Alexander's approach to objectivity in design and Eisenman's approach. From there we discussed what it means to make a public critically aware and engaged with their physical environment and which approach was better at accomplishing this goal. This discussion then led us to consider how a language evolves and changes over time. Chris raised the point about how slang and new words are adopted into a language and how that adoption is applicable in the architectural realm. Given that we have more parameters in just the last 20 years that we now have to facilitate in design how should a pattern language continue to evolve and augment itself over time, and what agency to individuals have to make this change in their own design decisions.
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Pattern Language Website:
https://www.patternlanguage.com/
Christopher Alexander Lecture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98LdFA-_zfA
Molly Wright Steenson Architectural Intelligence:
http://www.girlwonder.com/papers-articles
Empathic Futures Lab Blog by Christian Pepper - Evolved Pattern Language - 1:
https://empathicfutures.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/advanced-pattern-language-1/
Episode 34: Value Engineering w/ Alex Bahr
Episode 33: Dumb AI
Episode 32: Deep Dive on Heritage
Episode 31: The Many faces of Interfaces
Episode 30: [AR]chitecture
Episode 29: Mirror Worlds - or why the future is Green
Episode 28: Disconnecting - find your premium
Episode 27: What AirBnB's Backyard project might mean and other tangential topics
Episode 26: Digital Environments - Picnics or otherwise
Episode 25: Edges, Interfaces, the Formalization of the Digital
Episode 24: Big Bias, Big Data, Blockchain and other Topics
Episode 23: Why Media is so Broken (and other clickbaity titles)
Episode 22: Season 2 Kick-off Event
Episode 20: Trust Us, Reputation is the Future!
Episode 19: Why do we detail?
Episode 17: Re-Installing Architecture
Episode 16: What does Experience Mean?
Episode 15: Authenticity in Fiction
Episode 14: Future Business
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