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Models: high end devices for innovation. The NASA made models to...

Models: high end devices for innovation.

The NASA made models to prepare the Apollo missions circa 1960. It reminds me that prototyping is not “new”, that it’s been there since a time. The fact is that is now spreading to everyone as the design is more popular. So now we can talk about a prototyping culture, and I think that’s “the new”.

More photos on: From NASA’s Archives, 50 Amazing Photos Of The Apollo Moon Missions | Fast Co.Design

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Adhocracy | catalogue

Adhocracy | catalogue:

Adhocracy catalogue from the first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial, curated by Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima. October 13th - 12th december 2012.

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Adhocracy - Joseph Grima | mplusmatters.hk

Adhocracy - Joseph Grima | mplusmatters.hk:

The world of design is in upheaval. The last industrial revolution was about mass production: today, the forces that over the past decade transformed publishing are forcing us to rethink how we make, and design, things. With the advent of the network as the dominant mode of social and cultural organisation, epochal shifts are transforming the power structures around which societies have for decades, if not centuries, been organised — and also how we frame and exhibit design as a trans-national phenomenon.

Adhocracy - Joseph Grima

Also on pdf

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Richard Sennett: The Open City Richard Sennett will focus on...

Richard Sennett: The Open City

Richard Sennett will focus on the relation of social life to physical design. In this lecture he’ll explore what shape cities should have to admit the complexities and conflicts of the people who live together, in a particular way. He’ll talk about edge conditions within the city, distinguishing between borders and boundaries, exploring the design of porosity and mixture of people who differ from one another.

More on CRASSH

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Design Glosary This glossary sheds light on the redundancy of...

Design Glosary

This glossary sheds light on the redundancy of certain words and phrases, and we hope it also sheds light on the fact that many leaders and practitioners are using different terms to describe almost identical processes and approaches. Despite arguments over “correct” terminology, we are all speaking the same language. 

- A Good Design Glossary to Decode the Jargon | GOOD

More on publicinterestdesign.org/glossary/

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NON PLAN Sharing results from searching this text by Cedric...

NON PLAN

Sharing results from searching this text by Cedric Price, Paul Barker, Reyner Banham and Peter Hall.

In 1969, Cedric Price with Paul Barker (writer), Reyner Banham (architecture historian) and Peter Hall (geographer and planner) published ‘Non-Plan: an experiment in freedom’ an article in a social affairs magazine titled New Society. The idea emerged after a conversation about the appalling results of current urban planning strategies and it get any worse if there was no planning at all. At the time, Non-Plan infuriated many architects and planners because not only was it extremely provocative and contentious but it also went against the established order and controlled uniformity of the built environment.

Cedric Price saw the city not as a cohesive structure but instead as an unstable series of systems, in continual transformation, constantly reorganizing and rearranging itself through processes of both expansion and retraction. Price supported the idea of the “anticipatory architect” in which the general public could determine, control and shape their own surroundings.

The major premise behind Non-Plan was when ‘professionals’ were designing communities they should think before telling other people how they should live because everyone had their own preferences and ideas. Non-Plan explored ways of involving people in the design of their environments by circumventing planning bureaucracy and letting the people shape the environment they want to live and work in.

- citymovement

Also you can read “Cedric Price: architect for life” by Paul Barker (Non-Plan co-author) on opendemocracy.net. He recommend two more links - both of them broken - and I’ve searched them again and I found only this: Paul Barker, Non-Plan Revisited : Or the Real Way Cities Grow (London : Journal of Design History, 12 / 2, summer 1999) [2013 mar 19].

He and I collaborated on Non-Plan, an anti-planning polemic, which infuriated architects, planners and assorted do-gooders. The idea emerged during a conversation I had with Peter Hall, geographer and planner, in the late 1960s. Both of us were appalled at the disasters that urban planning had brought about. We wondered if things could be any worse if there were no planning at all.

Anyone who wants to know more about Non-Plan, its origins and its later history can find it in Paul Barker, Non-Plan Revisited : Or the Real Way Cities Grow (London : Journal of Design History, 12 / 2, summer 1999) and in Jonathan Hughes and Simon Sadler, Non-Plan : Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Oxford :Architectural Press, 2000).

The name Non-Plan was, I think, my suggestion. I saw it as the theme for a special issue of the social affairs magazine, New Society, which I edited. The obvious collaborators were Cedric Price, who had already appeared in New Society, and whose non-authoritarian designs certainly influenced us; and his great friend, the architecture historian, and chronicler of popular culture, Reyner Banham. We drew deeply on Peter Hall’s and Reyner Banham’s wide knowledge of the United States. (A less common thing in Britain than it has since become.)

What worried our critics, who were many, when the four of us published our Non-Plan issue of New Society (20 March 1969), was their uncertainty about our political stance. Was this anarchism? Or deep-dyed conservatism, a precursor of Thatcherism? Our essential point was that you should always think very hard before telling other people how they ought to live. They had their own preferences, which ought to be respected.

- Paul Barker on opendemocracy.net

And the last content via Dan Hill on Brickstarter which points two excerpts on Wikipedia from psychogeography and the end of planning . reyner banham’s los angeles. the architecture of four ecologies by Kazys Varnelis:

‘Between 1967 and 1969, the New Society’s deputy editor [sic] Paul Barker developed a deliberately controversial project for the magazine involving Banham, Cedric Price, and Peter Hall. In 1967, Barker ran excerpts from Herbert Gans’s The Levittowners: Ways of Life and Poetics in a New Suburban Community, which he saw “as a corrective to the usual we-know-best snobberies about suburbia.” At roughly the same time, Barker and Hall “floated this maverick thought: could things be any worse if there was no planning at all?” Barker elaborates: “We were especially concerned at the attempt to impose aesthetic choices on people who might have very different choices of their own. Why not, we wondered, suggest an experiment in getting along without planning and seeing what emerged?” The project, titled “Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom”, Barker notes, “was strongly influenced by Banham’s essays in the magazine”. For the special issue, which would be published on 20 March 1969, Barker recalls, “We wanted to startle people by offending against the deepest taboos. This would drive our point home.” To this end Hall, Banham, and Price each took a section of the revered British countryside and imagined it blanketed with a low-density sprawl driven by automobility. According to Barker the reaction was a “mixture of deep outrage and stunned silence.” Images of neon signs—the ‘imageability’ so important to Banham’s idea of une architecture autre—that would mark the commercial structures of non-plan punctuated the issue. In Banham’s contribution, “Spontaneity and Space”, he suggested that “the monuments of our century that have spontaneity and vitality are found not in the old cities, but in the American West. There, in the desert and the Pacific states, creations like Fremont Street in Las Vegas or Sunset Strip in Beverly Hills represent the living architecture of our age. As Tom Wolfe points out in his brilliant essay on Las Vegas, they achieve their quality by replacing buildings by signs.” ’ from Kazys Varnelis, Psychogeography and the End of Planning . Reyner Banham’s Los Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies in Pat Morton, (ed), Pop Culture and Postwar American Taste, (London: Blackwell, forthcoming 2006)

- Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom | en.wikipedia.org

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"Making things is not usually considered a political activity. But in an age in which the geography..."

“Making things is not usually considered a political activity. But in an age in which the geography of knowledge and information is almost seamless, it can become one. To make something — whether it is an immaterial interface or a very real city — is to interrogate oneself as to the definition of labour, the value of intellectual property, the ethics of consumption, and, for sure, the possibilities inherent in new productive processes. Design, more often than not, is the process of questioning, undermining, rethinking the expected responses to these queries.” - Joseph Grima, Adhocracy originalmente publicado en radarq.net > http://tumblr.radarq.net/post/45768117309