Today’s Links
- Visualicity – on urban visibility and invisibility. “Cities are an example of phenomena too extensive in scale to be empirically visible to the human eye in one glance, yet are taken for granted by virtue of our faith that the totality of the urban can be glimpsed from a part.” (PDF; via Anne Galloway.)
- Portable Effects: A Survey of Nomadic Design Practice. “Everybody is a designer in everyday life. Yet we share no common vocabulary for describing everyday design practice, and few would even claim to have a coherent method for pursuing it” (via Anne Galloway).
- Mathematics and Language. “In taking this perspective [of the relationship between mathematics and language] I examine how language functions in organising mental activity” (via Heckler & Coch?).
- Creativity and self-organization: contributions from cognitive science and semiotics. “What sort of contribution has Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity?” (Via Heckler & Coch?)
- Topics in Personal and Collective Memory. On the “Human Ecology of Memory”; collective memory, institutional memory, memes, etc. (Via Heckler & Coch?)
- Universal Grammar and Linguistics. “[U]niversal grammar is, in [Noam] Chomsky’s words, ‘the system of principles, conditions, and rules that are elements or properties of all human languages.’” (Via Heckler & Coch?)
- Renzo Piano: the world’s leading builder of museums. “RP: I believe architecture is art, of course. It’s art, but it’s not sculpture because it’s made for making service to something else.” (Via rodcorp.)
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