Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the exp... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the exp... See more
The idea of research as leisure activity has stayed with me because it seems to describe a kind of intellectual inquiry that comes from idiosyncratic passion and interest. It’s not about the formal credentials. It’s fundamentally about play . It seems to describe a life where it’s just fun to be reading, learning, writing, and collaborating on idea... See more
Celine Nguyen • research as leisure activity
build a world, not an audience — kening zhu
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“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
We then used these objects to prompt discussions through questions of making – specifically asking participants ‘why do you think this was made?’ Making motivations is a lens being explored by the V&A East team as a curatorial framework and we wanted to build on this. Through these conversations, participants drew lines between their objects an... See more
Cara Gray • Designing for serendipity in the museum – surprise encounters with ...
“Those who are truly decrepit, living corpses, so to speak, are the middle-aged, middleclass men and women who are stuck in their comfortable grooves and imagine that the status quo will last forever or else are so frightened it won’t that they have retreated into their mental bomb shelters to wait it out.”
“Fiction is just gossip about people who happened to be make-believe.” — Lynn Barnes
A textile (even one as dense as felt) invites the eye to see its strands and, at the same time, see it as a field. This dynamic becomes further complicated when it is draped, folded, or otherwise attached to some thing or some body. Then thread, fabric, and scaffolding become a trinity of interdependence.
“Strategy can be considered a simple machine that consists of just four working parts: Ends, Ways, Means, and Assumptions”
For Gray, Ends were the goals, Ways the actions taken, Means were the resources deployed, and Assumptions were the necessary leaps, imagination, and guesses.
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
Strategy is about “shifting events and outcomes in one’s favour. Strategy in other words, is about creating new futures.”
what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation