7. Every form of civilisation is a wise
equilibrium between firm substructure
and roaring liberty
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- Eugen Rosenstock-Huessey
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The Clock of the Long Now - Stewart Brand
19. We build “designer environments” in which
human reason is able to far outstrip the
computational ambit of the unaugmented
biological brain.
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- Andy Clark
in Being There
20. After 4000 years of hard work
we wound up with a neat system of
seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks,
months and years to break the infinity of
time into manageable chunks.
21. And
a matching set of artefacts, like clocks,
calendars and timelines to make the
system tangible
22. A set of tools and design
patterns
Scenarios
Degree of
uncertainty
Timeline
Planner
Present
Calendar
Future
27. Mental time travel comprises the mental
reconstruction of personal events from the
past and the mental construction of possible
events in the future.
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- Thomas Suddendorf and Michael
Corballis
in Mental time travel and the evolution of the human
mind, Genetic, Social, and General Psychology
Monographs, 1997
31. Archiving the models allowed architects to
keep the traces of creativity […]; dearchiving them meant they could rediscover
those traces of design invention that time
had left intact.
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- Albena Yaneva
Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an ethnography of design, 2009, page 65
33. The biggest part of our work [...] disappears
automatically. [...] But you can't look at
these designs as waste. They're ideas; they
will survive in books.
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- Rem Koolhaas
We're Building Assembly-Line Cities and Buildings, Der Spiegel 2011