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133 Articles match "Architecture","Roles"
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
The latter kind of architecture, as described by Kropotkin , was what prevailed in the networked free towns and villages of late medieval Europe. Arguably conventional liberals, with their thought system originating as it did as the ideology of the managers and engineers who ran the corporations, government agencies, and other giant organizations of the late 19th and early 20th century, have played the same role for the corporate-state nexus that the politiques did for the absolute states of the early modern period.
I believe that the growing fiscal crisis of the state, and the growing tendency toward high unemployment and underemployment becoming a norm, will have two long-term results: first, the production of a growing share of value in the informal economy in place of its purchase with wages; and second, the decoupling of the social safety net from both the welfare state and wage employment.
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Saturday, February 27, 2010
The role of the state must evolve from the protector of dominant interests and arbiter between public regulation and privatized corporate modes (an eternal and improductive binary choice), towards being the arbiter between a triarchy of public regulation, private markets, and the direct social production of value. We need to become politically sensitive to invisible architectures of power. I wrote these summary theses about two years ago, but I believe they are still valid, food for thought, and show the specific approach I’m proposing to politics, state and governance issues:
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
The public sphere was the space in which bourgeois culture and politics played out, a theatre for bourgeois citizens to play their role in shaping and legitimating society. The idealized model for networked publics is, as Yochai Benkler suggests, that of a “distributed architecture with multidirectional connections among all nodes in the networked information environment”. Whether network culture plants the seeds of greater democratic participation and deliberation, or whether it will only be used to mobilize already like-minded individuals, remains to be seen. The question
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Detailed discussion by Eric Hunting :
“The ideal situation for P2P architecture is where you can produce structures of small to large scale using intuitively simple modular systems with components on a human scale that are easy for the solitary individual to manipulate and which encode aspects of safety and structural engineering into their interface standards in the same way that the sub-components in a personal computer encode lower levels of engineering into them so that assembly and design higher up the food chain doesn’t have to think much about them. This is the province
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Full reprint of an i mportant editorial by Alan Rosenblith :
“I f there is one over-arching trend in the information age, it is towards p2p architecture . Fundamentally, p2p architecture in currency design will mean the obsolescence of third-party record keepers. Let’s take a deeper look at what the historic role of banks has been.
How to best transcend the current economic mess? Put Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Elon Musk, Tim O’Reilly, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Nathan Myhrvold, and Danny Hillis in a room somewhere and don’t let them out until they have framed a
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Thursday, March 5, 2009
Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in CollaborativeSystems Steve Harrison* and Paul Dourish+ *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center +Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Lab (EuroPARC) harrison@parc.xerox.com, dourish@europarc.xerox.com This is a draft of a paper which subsequently appeared in the Proceedings of CSCW96 (pub. We argue that a focus on spatial models is misplaced.Drawing on understandings from architecture and urban design, as wellas from our own research findings, we highlight the criticaldistinction between ``space and ``place. ACM). Abstract Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of``space and spatial organisation to facilitate and structureinteraction.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
An essay on p2p design and architecture , by our friend Nikos Salingaros .
Implementing this realization to rebuild our world can lead to an unprecedented degree of support for human life from architectural and urban structures.” Their results are comfortable, ordered, human-scaled, and figure prominently in the large-scale architectural and urban regeneration of our cities.
For certain situations, applying either bottom-up design or traditional top-down design is more efficient. Traditional top-down design gives consistent, predictable results, whereas bottom-up
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Sunday, February 10, 2008
Matt’s Musings …what’s inside my head? Home Books Presentations Who is Matt? What’s my scene — user roles and needs in social computing Do you allow people to comment, review, rate and ask questions on your website’s articles? My client though, has until recently, thought of their users in the same way they do their print publications. This has meant that their market segmentation is broken down into 3 (non-mutually exclusive) roles: those that use the website, those who read print-publications
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Saturday, July 18, 2009
There’s no question the world could be a much better place if the physical architecture of our habitat was so rationally structured. The only planned cities are dead cities -because they aren’t their architecture. Cities are not their architecture. Eric Hunting reacts to our earlier article by Doctress Neutopia, who called for a network of urban arcologies .
Eric Hunting:
“Generally, I’m in agreement with the ideals Doctress Neutopia presents in this article.
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Friday, June 19, 2009
This reasoning is applied to architecture in the following contribution that first appeared in an email exchange.
In engineering, modularity functions as a way of encoding and compartmentalizing knowledge into the topology and architecture of components so that someone farther down the chain of development doesn’t need to know all that knowledge to use it. Later designers abandoned modularity in architecture because they considered it a folly stifling The key here is _whose_ creativity is being enabled by this. Modernist use of modularity generally wasn’t concerned
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Samuel is located in the Netherlands and his responsibilities include both the information architecture for structured information in applications such as PLMS and SAP and the unstructured information in places such as email and knowledge management programs.
really like this dual architectural role for both structured and unstructured information. This is the third in a series of interviews with Samuel Driessen , Information Architect at Océ , about their Enterprise 2.0 implementation and adoption experiences.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
When consulting Whole Earth’s content, the civil rights movement, largely focused at the time on equal rights by gender and skin color, played a small role in influencing NewCommunalism . Tags: Crowdsourcing Desktop Manufacturing Gift Economies Open Content Open Design Open Hardware Open Innovation Open Models Open Standards P2P Action Items P2P Architecture P2P Culture P2P Development P2P Economics Peer Production Peer Property (IP) Vide “We are as gods and we might as well get good at it.”[1] 8221;[1] In the 1969 issue, that was the first line to instill the purpose
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Friday, December 4, 2009
We present in this proposal a scheme for efficient transitional housing for the communities of Abruzzo accounting for the need to maintain the social cohesion of original communities under reconstruction, given the protracted periods of time this may incur with the restoration of the traditional regional forms of architecture which are themselves both a source of cultural identity and economic benefit.
When this cohesion is lost the ability of a community to function as a social/political unit to work and -sometimes- fight for its existence and the restoration of its physical architecture
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