Social Design
The Archive of Encounters
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The Archive of Encounters
The Problem
of Life is old. I have endeavored to approach it afresh, with a
new method, in a new spirit, from a new point of view.
Social Industrial Design
A Bed for Bruno
I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.
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Design for Change
Look upon these splendid treasures of bound-up time, imagine them taken away, and your sense of the appalling loss will give you the measure required.
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THE ROUGH HOUSE
Dimensionality
An event is a very complex fact, and the relations between two events form an almost impenetrable maze.
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Off the Ground
An event is a very complex fact, and the relations between two events form an almost impenetrable maze.
Illustration
Before a sign may acquire meaning and therefore become a symbol there must exist something for this sign to symbolize.
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Not Ideas About the Thing but the Thing Itself
Before a sign may acquire meaning and therefore become a symbol there must exist something for this sign to symbolize.
Cartography
It is now evident that intellectual life is one long process of abstractions, generalizations, and assumptions — the three things are so many aspects of one whole activity.
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Nomad Exquisite
It is now evident that intellectual life is one long process of abstractions, generalizations, and assumptions — the three things are so many aspects of one whole activity.
Illustration
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that.
THE MAN WITH THE BLUE GUITAR
Any organism must be treated as-a-whole; in other words, that an organism is not an algebraic sum, a linear function of its elements, but always more than that.
Cartography
Man’s achievements rest upon the use of symbols. We must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
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The House Was Quiet and The World Was Calm
Man’s achievements rest upon the use of symbols. We must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.
Dimensionality
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
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The Doctor of Geneva
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
