let's think about Mending Wall in light of Christopher Alexander https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44266 …
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Replying to @literalbanana @doriantaylor
this is good! very helpful, I already see what I want to fight with ;)
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Replying to @literalbanana
also when I say something like "carrying informational content" I mean messages as simple as "this place is [not] safe".
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Replying to @doriantaylor
YES - hard and important to trace it through all the levels of representation
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Replying to @literalbanana
so things like thin structural members, slanted ceilings, weird cantilevers, heavy things on top, hollow structures…
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…all communicate "this place is dodgy, get out of here ASAP"—subtly mind you, kinda like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouba/kiki_effect …
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Replying to @doriantaylor @literalbanana
…also inclined to add: goofy undulations à la Gehry/Calatrava, jagged steel tumours à la Libeskind…
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Replying to @doriantaylor
like the idea of designing to warn people 10,000 years from now away from nuclear waste dumps
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Replying to @literalbanana
yeah my best friend from highschool got a tattoo of that Yucca Mountain concept
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haha I went to high school in NV and they took us on a tour of the facility - not very appealing anyway
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