http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_brown_urges_designers_to_think_big.html
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects -- even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory "design thinking."
Friday, October 9, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Value of Sharing
The Good Magazine published a run of interesting interviews to the topic »Value of Sharing« in different aspects: financial, computational, fashionable, artistic, academic, creative. Here for instance the interview of the co-founder of Flickr, Caterina Fake. Let's hear!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Robert Frost, Mending Wall
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun,
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters is another thing:
I have come after them and made repair
Where they have left not one stone on a stone,
But they would have the rabbit out of hiding,
To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean,
No one has seen them made or heard them made,
But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbor know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go.
To each the boulders that have fallen to each.
And some are loaves and some so nearly balls
We have to use a spell to make them balance:
'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!'
We wear our fingers rough with handling them.
Oh, just another kind of out-door game,
One on a side. It comes to little more:
There where it is we do not need the wall:
He is all pine and I am apple orchard.
My apple trees will never get across
And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors'.
Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head:
'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn't it
Where there are cows?
But here there are no cows.
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know
What I was walling in or walling out,
And to whom I was like to give offence.
Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him,
But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather
He said it for himself. I see him there
Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top
In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed.
He moves in darkness as it seems to me~
Not of woods only and the shade of trees.
He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."
Friday, September 11, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
WeCommune
Design Observer introduces WeCommune:
http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10607
http://changeobserver.designobserver.com/entry.html?entry=10607
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Massage Skill Share September 9
MASSAGE WORKSHOP
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, at 6pm
at the Center for Family Life
443 39th Street (between 3rd and 4th Aves), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn
· Learn how to PREPARE to give a massage by STRETCHING, getting
FOCUSED, and learning to pay ATTENTION to others.
· Learn how to give YOURSELF massages with your hands and simple
tools like tennis balls or doorways
· Learn how to give OTHERS massages in your home
· Learn other methods to RELAX and TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF better
Please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net
so we can hold a spot for you!
About our massage therapists:
Christina is a massage therapist, having studied at Healing Hands
Institute in Westwood, NJ, concentrating on relaxation, deep tissue,
and prenatal massage.
Sarah graduated from The Swedish Institute in New York City in 1998,
is New York State licensed in massage therapy, and while still
maintaining her various critiques of hierarchical ‘formal education’
has also received Reiki attunements in the traditional linear
progression up through and beyond the ‘master’ level, and continues
her post-graduate studies with a variety of institutions and
individuals.
Since 2007, Kaia has been practicing Thai massage for relaxation and
wellness. Thai massage involves yoga-like stretching and loving touch
along energy lines starting with the feet. She learned Thai Massage
through exchange, books, and a Level I & II course (70 hours of formal
study).
The Rock Dove Collective is a radical community health exchange
dedicated to helping people get access to the care they need to be
well and thrive. Visit us at www.rockdovecollective.org
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, at 6pm
at the Center for Family Life
443 39th Street (between 3rd and 4th Aves), 3rd Floor, Brooklyn
· Learn how to PREPARE to give a massage by STRETCHING, getting
FOCUSED, and learning to pay ATTENTION to others.
· Learn how to give YOURSELF massages with your hands and simple
tools like tennis balls or doorways
· Learn how to give OTHERS massages in your home
· Learn other methods to RELAX and TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF better
Please RSVP to rockdovecollective@riseup.net
so we can hold a spot for you!
About our massage therapists:
Christina is a massage therapist, having studied at Healing Hands
Institute in Westwood, NJ, concentrating on relaxation, deep tissue,
and prenatal massage.
Sarah graduated from The Swedish Institute in New York City in 1998,
is New York State licensed in massage therapy, and while still
maintaining her various critiques of hierarchical ‘formal education’
has also received Reiki attunements in the traditional linear
progression up through and beyond the ‘master’ level, and continues
her post-graduate studies with a variety of institutions and
individuals.
Since 2007, Kaia has been practicing Thai massage for relaxation and
wellness. Thai massage involves yoga-like stretching and loving touch
along energy lines starting with the feet. She learned Thai Massage
through exchange, books, and a Level I & II course (70 hours of formal
study).
The Rock Dove Collective is a radical community health exchange
dedicated to helping people get access to the care they need to be
well and thrive. Visit us at www.rockdovecollective.org
Introduction
This blog will be used for the class
Not Owning: Designing (in) Systems of Giving and Sharing.
In it, we will post links to interesting projects and articles.
Not Owning: Designing (in) Systems of Giving and Sharing.
In it, we will post links to interesting projects and articles.
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