I'm sitting here between Christmas and New Years working on the name for an event my partners and I are planning for October 2008 in San Francisco that identifies and addresses the wicked problems of reforming our global infrastructure, starting with the capital markets. Here's my sketch book so far:
Popular Words
Youtube
Pop tech
Google
Wired
Fast company
Zeitgeist
IPod
Open source
software
inspiration
design
social network
green
sustainable
tribes
global village
practice words
socialware 2008
capital, technology & design for the global village
open social
the tribes
Picking up the magazine Dwell (love that word) and saw an article on an exhibit at the Walker in Minneapolis entitled "Brave New World" after the book by Alduous Huxley.
Walker Art Exhibit “Brave New World”
The exhibition title, inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World, capitalizes on its ambivalent resonance. “We came upon ‘brave new worlds’ because we thought that in front of us are a range of approaches to the world that are critical but ultimately hopeful,” says Chong. “Then, we realized that the expression, in daily parlance, actually expresses ambivalence toward the relentless forward movement of modernity, and that’s precisely what’s found in Huxley’s book... Made into the plural form, “brave new worlds”—the micro-worlds proposed by the artists—present a multiplicity of interpretations and perspectives that critically cut through the collective haze of the “globe” that obscures the world’s many realities… Brave New Worlds assesses the current state of political consciousness and its multivalent artistic manifestations in an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified world order.
practice word
Brave New World
Capital Technology & Design for the Global Village
By the way in the Chinese pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale Cao Fei introduced her documentary iMirror, “filmed” entirely in Second Life and directed by her SL avatar China Tracy. Check out these videos.
...which led me to McLuhan who predicted the rise of tribes and the global village giving way to a global theater...and who said:
When a thing is current, it creates currency.
sketch book
social currents
social currency
living systems
and then this by Bruce Sterling in the same issue of Dwell:
"We're on a slider bar between the Unthinkable and the Unimaginable. Sustainability is a mighty effort to haul that slider bar toward general survival as the smoldering planet groans at the seams. The Unthinkable is a global Somalia, Bahhdad as the world's model city. The unimaginable is a set of awesome interventions we scarcely have words for yet: new design, new manufacturing, new culture, new cites, new infrastructure, new factories."
value
I like Laurance Allen's magazine title - Value - an economist like publication that rigorously reviews sustainability, new forms of capital and business.
Will keep working on this....
Popular Words
Youtube
Pop tech
Wired
Fast company
Zeitgeist
IPod
Open source
software
inspiration
design
social network
green
sustainable
tribes
global village
practice words
socialware 2008
capital, technology & design for the global village
open social
the tribes
Picking up the magazine Dwell (love that word) and saw an article on an exhibit at the Walker in Minneapolis entitled "Brave New World" after the book by Alduous Huxley.
Walker Art Exhibit “Brave New World”
The exhibition title, inspired by Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel Brave New World, capitalizes on its ambivalent resonance. “We came upon ‘brave new worlds’ because we thought that in front of us are a range of approaches to the world that are critical but ultimately hopeful,” says Chong. “Then, we realized that the expression, in daily parlance, actually expresses ambivalence toward the relentless forward movement of modernity, and that’s precisely what’s found in Huxley’s book... Made into the plural form, “brave new worlds”—the micro-worlds proposed by the artists—present a multiplicity of interpretations and perspectives that critically cut through the collective haze of the “globe” that obscures the world’s many realities… Brave New Worlds assesses the current state of political consciousness and its multivalent artistic manifestations in an era characterized by the unraveling of a unified world order.
practice word
Brave New World
Capital Technology & Design for the Global Village
By the way in the Chinese pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale Cao Fei introduced her documentary iMirror, “filmed” entirely in Second Life and directed by her SL avatar China Tracy. Check out these videos.
...which led me to McLuhan who predicted the rise of tribes and the global village giving way to a global theater...and who said:
When a thing is current, it creates currency.
sketch book
social currents
social currency
living systems
and then this by Bruce Sterling in the same issue of Dwell:
"We're on a slider bar between the Unthinkable and the Unimaginable. Sustainability is a mighty effort to haul that slider bar toward general survival as the smoldering planet groans at the seams. The Unthinkable is a global Somalia, Bahhdad as the world's model city. The unimaginable is a set of awesome interventions we scarcely have words for yet: new design, new manufacturing, new culture, new cites, new infrastructure, new factories."
value
I like Laurance Allen's magazine title - Value - an economist like publication that rigorously reviews sustainability, new forms of capital and business.
Will keep working on this....