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[aioleis]

"wave is a dynamic system in catastrophe, as a result ofits internal organizational instability"

".. because a wave is a dynamic system. It consists of flows of water , which are its parts, and the relations between those flows, which are governed by the natural laws of systems of water that are investigated by the science of hydrodynamics.

The appearances of the wave, its shape and the happy white crest, are actually outputs of this system. They are what they are because the system is organized in the way that it is, and this organization produces an inescapable kind of behaviour.

The cross-section of the wave is parabolic, having two basic forms, the one dominating at the open-sea stage of the wave, and the other dominating later. As the second form is produced from the first, there is a moment when the wave holds the two forms: it has at this moment a wedge shape of 120°. And at this point, as the second form takes over, the wave begins to break—hence the happy white crest.

Now in terms of the dynamic system that we call a wave, the happy white crest is not at all the pretty sign by which what we first called an entity signalizes its existence. For the wave, that crest is its personal catastrophe. What has happened is that the wave has a systemic conflict within it determined by its form of organization, and that this has produced a phase of instability. The happy white crest is the mark of doom upon the wave, because the instability feeds upon itself; and the catastrophic collapse of the wave is an inevitable output of the system.

I am asking “Did you know?” Not “did you know about theoretic hydrodynamics?” but “did you know that a wave is a dynamic system in catastrophe, as a result ofits internal organizational instability?”

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Desigining Freedom by Stafford Beer

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[nimbu-estudio]

The world model, 1972. Printed book. In Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William Behrens III, The Limits to Growth. A Report for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind (New York: Potomac Associates – Universe Books, 1972). Private collection.

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Diagrama (transatravessamento) – Ricardo Basbaum, 2002. 25ª Bienal de São Paulo.

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Ricardo Basbaum, Diagram of the Wiesencafé, 2019

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Me-You Series, diagram, 2007 - Ricardo Basbaum

Connections | Ricardo Basbaum

[stevebattle]

Project Synco Operations Room Reconstruction by Eden Medina, Santiago, Chile (2023). On 9/11 1973, Augusto Pinochet, aided by the CIA, staged a military coup against President Salvador Allende who took his own life in the struggle. This brought project Synco (Sistema de INformación y COntrol, or Cybersyn in English) – a bold experiment in cybernetic governance – to a dramatic close. To mark the 50th anniversary of this event, Eden Medina, author of Cybernetic Revolutionaries, is working on "How to Design a Revolution: the Chilean Road to Design." This exhibition (and accompanying book) includes a reconstruction (lower photos) of the iconic ‘Opsroom’ (top photo), at the Cultural Centre of the Chilean Presidential Palace.

Project Synco (a play on 'cinco') implemented the Viable System Model (VSM), a recursive five-layered architecture, for systems organised to survive in a changing environment. The operations room is not for centralised control, but would be used by each system layer for their own purposes.

System One: Divisional Control – “the basic set of ‘doing’ machines with which we are industrially familiar already - which include their own intrinsic controls.”

System Two: Integral Control – “to control … oscillation we need a higher-order command structure - and this is System Two. It is a unifying controller capable of damping-down the oscillation.”

System Three: Internal Homeostasis – “control in large systems turns out to be mainly about stability - rather than an obsessional pursuit of high profits or any other maxima. But the top management of the firm, despite its commitment to some kind of stability, is none the less interested in particular goals. … At this level we can for the first time compute with the firm as a whole. From the computation should emerge a homeostatic strategy for the firm as a whole.”

System Four: External Homeostasis – “descending information from top management … [is] filtered down through a staff function - which is now nominated as System Four. And … there is corporate information about the outside world which it is specifically the job of System Four to collect and to distil.”

System Five: Foresight – “The model for System Five should incorporate every feature of the company in its environment which seems relevant to consideration of a firm’s long term future. It must be capable of reflecting on totally new departures in policy. The technique for running such a model is ultra-rapid simulation.”

– Project Cybersyn, Stafford Beer, 1972.

[robertpallesen]

Boarded Window, Portland, OR © Robert Pallesen

[msamba]

In 'Uprooted' by Doris Salcedo, a House Made from Hundreds of Trees Morphs into an Impenetrable Thicket | Colossal

FEBRUARY 23, 2023. KATE MOTHES “Uprooted” (2020-22), 804 dead trees and steel, 300 x 65 x 50 meters. Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 15, Kalba Ice Factory, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2023. All images © Doris Salcedo. Photos by Juan Castro In Colombian artist Doris Salcedo’s monumental installation titled “Uprooted” at the Sharjah Biennial 15, home is rooted in the mind. We use the phrase “to…

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Doris Salcedo, Uprooted, 2020–22. 804 dead trees and steel; 3000 x 650 x 500 cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by Juan Castro.

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FAMILIES AS ECOSYSTEMS

Ann Smith Rice and Suzanne M Tucker, Family Life Management, Sixth Edition, Macmillan, 1986

Thus, the people who compose a living unit, the micro-and macro-environments as perceived by the unit's members, and the network of human trasnactions carried out through the family organization are the major elements of the family ecosystem. Figure 1.1 [right] illustrates the relationship between members of an ecosystem and their environments, where interfaces occur.

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Prefabricated Kitchen Unit (1975–78) by Charlotte Perriand

Like a readymade for construction, the idea of prefabrication has long fascinated architects and designers. The kitchen and bathroom became special focuses for study because of the many different materials and trades required to produce them. Charlotte Perriand’s prefabs at Les Arcs—molded fiberglass shells in unexpected red, green, and blue—represent one of the rare projects of this kind that achieved large-scale production, with thousands of units created over the course of a decade. Completed at the end of Perriand’s career, these units were the culmination of many years of work to make domestic spaces more usable, affordable, responsive to contemporary life, and especially at Les Arcs, enjoyable and fun.

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Genealogical diagram made in the mid 1950s by anthropologist Jean Malaurie

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[spaceintruderdetector]

CYBERNETICS AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN THE SOVIET UNION 1964

https://archive.org/details/DTIC_AD0602705/mode/2up

The report is an introduction to the subject of cybernetics, with special reference to its origins and ramifications in the United States and its subsequent development in the Soviet Union. As a survey document only, it was prepared to provide a non-scientific audience with sufficient background to facilitate appreciation of the potential impact of cybernetics on science and society. As in the United States, scientific research, military applications, economic planning, education, industry, etc., are affected by developments in cybernetics. Following a brief introduction, the report traces the birth of cybernetics and sketches its early development and its growth and emergence in the West. Soviet cybernetics is also examined.

[garadinervi]

Wolfgang Schmidt, buch 3 quadratschnitte, Edition S / Dato Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1961, First edition of 50 [The Idea of the Book, Portland, OR]

[thegreatlearning]

George Brecht - Water Yam

[kuboki-k]

Sadly the demolition has begun today. Photo was from tour of  in 2017. 中銀カプセルビルが先日12日から解体とのことで、2017年に建築ツアーで見学した際の写真を投稿します。海外の建築関係の友人と恩師のツアーに参加した際のものです。専門外ですが、日本よりも海外での評価がものすごくて、見学中の友人達の興奮から、そのカリスマ的な人気を肌で感じました。日本の建築は地震の問題で保存が難しい面もあるとは思いますが、芸術畑の人間としては、無くしてしまうのは惜しく思えます。案内してくださった和田菜穂子先生に感謝いたします。 参加したのはこちらの建築ツアーです HP: https://accesspoint.jp/en/?fbclid=IwAR0I3A28_rpFgfYaTihN8BwGPpsXy1bNRlhQeLzCAiVtugRAQlmhmvfAs-Q

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Hilma af Klint  Geometric Series and Other Works 1917-1920

Catalogue Raisonné Volume V

Edited by Kurt Almqvist and Daniel Birbaum

Bokförlaget Stolpe, Stockholm 2021, 208 pages, 126 Illustrations, 24 x 31 cm., ISBN 978-9189069268

euro 52,00

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During the last years of the 1910s, Hilma af Klint created several series of small paintings in which she systematically explored an abstract idiom with the help of ruler and compasses. The triangles, squares, circles, and ellipses that appear here in constantly new constellations express a spiritual dynamic, according to af Klint’s notebooks from these years. Hilma af Klint considered this work a kind of research, and she used ‘spiritual scientific’ methods – a term borrowed from anthroposophy – in order to understand the evolution and development of mankind. In her studies of living beings, she gained insight into an abstract world of geometrical conditions and guidelines.

03/04/22

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