ATTENTION IS AN ARTFORM

Complex Potential States

A theory of change that can account for beauty and generate life.
Bonnitta Roy

Meaning and Affordance: Between Alexander and Gibson

Assessing our ability to navigate the world in a meaningful way requires rethinking the subject–object stance.
Benjamin Parry

ATTENTION IS AN ARTFORM

Complex Potential States

A theory of change that can account for beauty and generate life.
Bonnitta Roy

Meaning and Affordance: Between Alexander and Gibson

Assessing our ability to navigate the world in a meaningful way requires rethinking the subject–object stance.
Benjamin Parry

ATTENTION IS AN ARTFORM

Complex Potential States

A theory of change that can account for beauty and generate life.
Bonnitta Roy

Meaning and Affordance: Between Alexander and Gibson

Assessing our ability to navigate the world in a meaningful way requires rethinking the subject–object stance.
Benjamin Parry
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Rules of Thumb and Adaptive Rationality

Human cultures have used rules of thumb for ages. During the past century they have been vilified to near extinction. Is their demise justified?
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The Role of Being: Philosophical Underpinnings in The Nature of Order

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By ignoring the aesthetic testimony of feeling in favor of the computational power of its models, science has blinded itself to the vitality of the universe
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Alexander is at once analytical, focused, and linear, but also intuitive, receptive, and embodied. His style is the summation of both attitudes.
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Small-scale urban planning coupled with decentralized, interactive local governance can enable patterns to emerge into a more complex form of citymaking.
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Reckoning and Desire: First Critical Theory

Logos requires a faith in the reality of the good and the ordering of the human psyche to it. Without such an ordering, there could be no logos in the relevant sense.
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Practitioners who try to implement Alexander’s toolkit find themselves marginalized in the architecture profession and shunned by academia. Why?
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Skillful Perception at the Scale of Civilization

Civilization-scale challenges call for civilization-scale perception.
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Inscription on the Heart: Medieval Christian Knowledge Practices

The self is surely more than the sum of its parts, but summing the parts is a way of beginning to think about who or what a self is.
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We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely peruse the body of theories handed down to us.
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Illich invites us to consider what it might mean to discipline our vision. Doing so may help us reframe our relationship to the digital media ecosystem.
L. M. Sacasas

The Zigzag Man: Christopher Alexander's Dual Regard

Alexander is at once analytical, focused, and linear, but also intuitive, receptive, and embodied. His style is the summation of both attitudes.
Jenny Quillien

Rules of Thumb and Adaptive Rationality

Human cultures have used rules of thumb for ages. During the past century they have been vilified to near extinction. Is their demise justified?
Roope Kaaronen

The Role of Being: Philosophical Underpinnings in The Nature of Order

What do we mean when we talk about being? How can this inquiry help us as architects and designers?
James M. Maguire

Restoring Architecture's Cosmic Context

By ignoring the aesthetic testimony of feeling in favor of the computational power of its models, science has blinded itself to the vitality of the universe
Matthew David Segall

The Deeper Order of Cities

Small-scale urban planning coupled with decentralized, interactive local governance can enable patterns to emerge into a more complex form of citymaking.
Joni Baboci

Reckoning and Desire: First Critical Theory

Logos requires a faith in the reality of the good and the ordering of the human psyche to it. Without such an ordering, there could be no logos in the relevant sense.
Stephen Pimentel

Why Christopher Alexander Failed to Humanize Architecture

Practitioners who try to implement Alexander’s toolkit find themselves marginalized in the architecture profession and shunned by academia. Why?
Nikos A. Salingaros

Skillful Perception at the Scale of Civilization

Civilization-scale challenges call for civilization-scale perception.
Nicholas Paul Brysiewicz

Inscription on the Heart: Medieval Christian Knowledge Practices

The self is surely more than the sum of its parts, but summing the parts is a way of beginning to think about who or what a self is.
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Why Civilizations Collapse

We have to evaluate the perceptions that mint facts and theory, not merely peruse the body of theories handed down to us.
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Diagnosing the Current Age: A Symptomology of the Meaning Crisis

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