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Workshop on 15 Properties of Christopher Alexander .  Click on the image for a magnification.

Les artikkelen her . Min kommentar: 19682010   •   om noen sekunder − Sentralstatens nedgangstid, som for de fleste land allerede har startet, vil gi en retur til mer tradisjonelle samfunnsmodeller: http://www.kulturverk.com/2013... Senest i forgårs så jeg en BBC-dokumentar som bekrefter at kvinner velger de beste jegerne, dette gjelder også i dag, forsøk viste at kvinnene vurderer menn etter de samme jegerkriteriene i dag som i tradisjonelle stammesamfunn, det er bare ikke like åpenbart. Mennene drar ut på jobb for å jakte, i dag representert ved symbolviltet penger. Kvinnene holder seg hjemme i landsbyen, i grupper. Derfor, vil man satse på kvinnearbeidsplasser må disse finnes i nærmiljøet, hvor kvinnene kan finne sammen i grupper sammen med barna. Barnehagemodellen er en dårlig modell, barnehagene må integreres i kvinners arbeid, nærmiljø og kvinnegrupper. Dette er også utgangspunktet for økolandsbymodellen, en annen gren av feminismen som er så MYE mer kons...

19682010   •   for noen sekunder siden − "Det er bra for deg selv, for alle andre damer og resten av samfunnet om du jobber full tid. Klipp håret og skaff deg en jobb! - Joacim Lund Joacim, her snakker du mot bedre vitende. Terje Bongard skriver følgende: "En arbeidsplass i dag innebærer i praksis en fare for etterkommerne, i stedet for å bygge trygghet for framtida." Se:  http://permaliv.blogspot.no/20... Ved å tvinge kvinnene til å arbeide mer undergraver de sine barns framtid. Hvorfor vil LO-lederen at vi skal arbeide mer. Bongard gir det klare, men ubehagelige svaret også på dette: "I denne settingen jobber forskning, private og offentlige institusjoner i alle land kortsiktig og enøyd med «verdiskaping, innovasjon og utvikling av nye markeder», med formål å produsere flere dingser, reiser, forbruk eller tjenester som skal konkurrere ut andre. Arbeidsplasser brukes som skalkeskjul. Bærekraftig industri blir aldri satset på om det ikke er profi...

19682010    Morten Jensen   •   for 2 timer siden − Det er uvitenskapelig å hevde at alt er smak og meninger, dessverre er den relativistiske ånd høyst levende. Arkitektur er, eller rettere sagt skulle vært, vitenskap. Dagens arkitektur er ikke vitenskapelig fundert, dette er samtidens største tragedie, da arkitekturen er det fysiske utgangspunktet for utfoldensen av livet. For de som ønsker en arkitektur for livet, og ikke for eliten, har det kommet ei splitter ny, tungt vitenskapelig fundamentert bok om temaet:  http://www.math.utsa.edu/~yxk8... Her er et sitat: “‘Unified Architectural Theory’ is not theory at all. It is evidence. It lets us see how until recently we have always designed and built. We’ve built buildings and spaces and towns that reflect the order in our genes, in the biological world we’re part of. We’ve felt at home in them because their order makes space for our body and our soul. Now we rediscover how to build a wor...

View of the English Embankment in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Photo:  A. Savin

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Halden havn sett fra Fredriksten festning

Mon tro om det er Fantomet som har satt sitt onde merke her?

Rita, it's one of the pervasive bad habits of Western thought to assume that all other societies are on a track that leads to us -- this is what's implied by claims, for example, that Afghanistan is "still in the Middle Ages" (our Middle Ages, of course) or that hunter-gatherer tribes are "still in the Stone Age." Thus the insistence by Western elites that everyone else ought to use the same political forms we have, whether they work or not. - John Michael Greer

I thank Maureen Mullarkey for these supporting and insightful comments on my latest essay with Michael Mehaffy. This post raises profound points of disagreement on the possible solutions to our civilization’s decline, however. I happen to be an architectural theorist as well as a scientist. My new book, “ Unified Architectural Theory ” (just being proofread), was written because I am convinced that humanity’s salvation lies in the correct application of scientific theory to architecture. Furthermore, I argue that the so-called “theory” used up until now is just cult doctrine and ideology, which is what has destroyed our culture. Many of us agree on the urgency of the problem, and on the problem itself, but not on the solution. And I believe that people’s mistrust of theory is misplaced — the dominant discourse today in artistic circles is pseudo-theory, and should be condemned for its pretension. For Robert: CAD programs used today are like loaded firearms: you can use one to ...

From  The Corporate Enclosure of Seeds Intensifies : "The enclosure of seeds took another nasty turn this week as ag-biotech companies sought to make it illegal to grow, reproduce or trade any vegetable seed or tree that has not been tested and approved by a new “EU Plant Variety Agency.” In effect, unauthorized gardening or farming would be prohibited. The noose of proprietary control over natural processes grows tighter! The ostensible reason for the new EU law is to fix the “complexity and fragmentation” of existing legislation covering seeds. Different EU countries have different seed laws, causing “uncertainties and discrepancies” in market practices and regulatory enforcement. The new law is supposedly needed to “harmonize” the laws, and in so doing, “reduce cost and administrative burdens and support innovation.” But the upshot of the new law is to squeeze out commons-based alternatives to proprietary seeds. Again, the commons is seen as a form of unwanted compet...

Kagan and the other justices proved what relics they truly are. They actually think that innovation only emerges from the incentives of private property rights and market exchange. They do not comprehend that commons are vital for maintaining ecosystems and farmland, and for giving farmers a responsible, interactive role with respect to land. It is no surprise that American agriculture has degenerated into a kind of “factory,” treating soil and seed as inert things, and ignoring the nasty market “externalities” that such a mentality invariably produces. The Court didn’t address these issues, of course. Not legally germane. Nor did the Court address the fact that Monsanto will dominate the seed market even more, now that its patents extend from one generation of seeds to the next and the next. This ruling will entrench a monoculture of crops and Monsanto’s oligopoly powers. The folly of “human law” is that nature’s law always has the last say. And as crops become less robust a...

Lurer på når Aftenposten skal begynne å skrive om noe annet enn bolig? Før eller siden skjønner folk at noen tonn plank og stein, håndtert at polakker i 2-3 måneder, ikke er verdt et liv som gjeldsslave. - CarlEd_Leve Relatert: Inside Zone 0

Unknown, helping soil recover is definitely a good step, but I'd encourage you to start with your own yard: tear out the grass, and put in a vegetable garden and plants that feed native pollinators, and you've made a small but definite contribution right there.  - John Michael Greer

A manifestation of the architectural elite's hatred to Alexander's A Pattern Language . No words can express this hatred better than this building!

Vi er ikke akkurat bortskjemte med arkader her på Gjøvik, denne eldgamle og geniale oppfinnelsen, elsket fram til modernismen tok sitt jerngrep om vår hals på begynnelsen av forrige århundre, og frarøvet våre byer alt av liv A portico is a fractal on the human scale Non-fractal structure suppresses the human scale Relatert: -  Fractals in the New Architecture

Pavlovakake er oppkalt etter den russiske ballett-danserinnen Anna Pavlova.. Klikk på bildet for å ta den nærmere i øyensyn.

Recently, the concept of " complete streets " has gained some political ground. The complete street movement advocates that all streets should be safe and accessible for everyone - regardless of if you're a motorist, a cyclist, or a pedestrian. A complete street tries to encorporate as many features as possible - sidewalks, bicycle lanes, cross walks, and traffic lights - to accommodate every potential mode of transportation that could use that street. While I do agree with the underlying concept of making streets safe and accessible, I am somewhat doubtful that the complete street should be idolized as the ultimate form to base all streets off of.  Read article: -  The Complete Street

Gjøvik High School is not providing an enriching information environment, this doesn't prove good for the future of my region. Click on the image for a magnification. But what does this mean, in human terms? Countless studies have established that the rearing environment dramatically impacts brain growth in children. In 1994 the Carnegie Task Force issued a report warning that children raised in experientially poor environments suffer permanent setbacks as compared to those raised in richer, more enhanced environments. This was in line with the Head Start program begun several decades earlier in the US. Turning to philosophy and robotics gives us a new insight into what might be going on. In 1998, A. Clark and D. Chalmers proposed the “extended mind” concept, where the workings of our mind actually extend beyond the brain and into our surroundings. An interplay takes place between our thoughts and internal memories, and knowledge and information stored outside yet within ready...

By Michael W. Mehaffy and Nikos A. Salingaros Looked at in a certain way, the human environment is a kind of massive delivery system for critically useful information. It gives us information about obvious concerns, like where we are, where we need to go, where we might find food, where to look out for dangers (speeding cars, unsafe drop-offs, etc.) and many other things. And more subtly but importantly, it tells us where we will most likely feel safe and well. It now seems that when we find an environment beautiful, a form of integrated higher-level information telling us something important about the structure of the place, it is likely that it’s doing something positive for us. A grove of delicious ripe fruit is likely to be much more beautiful than one of diseased trees and rotted fruit — and that’s no coincidence. Our aesthetic discernments have evolved as sophisticated assessments of what is likely to be in our best interest as organisms. Put simply, we have a natural hun...

My internal answer seems impossible to live up to and I feel this is the same problem that everyone living INSIDE industrial civilization comes to. "It's too hard." "I can't. I have X responsibility." Industrial civilization is killing our future off and yet we cannot walk away, like addicts in full knowledge of their addiction, still helpless. - Nathan

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[Simone Cicero] : Are GenYrs and Millennials ready for this cultural leap forward (or backwards, depending on how do you see it)? [John Robb] : Some. Many are constrained by old ways of thinking. For example: The idea that political action can actually change our trajectory. Or, the best way to ensure a uncertain future is to get a safe government or big company job. Both are wron g! The best way forward is to become entrepreneurial. Work locally. Be productive. Network . The future will unfold before you. -  John Robb

[Simone Cicero] : Despite your theories are often referred as radically pessimistic you often evoke a “bright” future ahead of us: why should this future be so bright with the premises we all know? How far from us is this positive future really? [John Robb] : There is definitely a group of people that can’t imagine a way to live other than how we’ve lived in the last 60 years. They like it and want it to continue as is. To them, a world that doesn’t work nearly the same as it does today must always result in a Zombie Apocalypse. As a result, anybody that says the system is broken and needs replacement is a pessimist. It also restricts all positive views of the future to mere fixes to the current system (usually through behavioral or technological transformation). However, I’m a pragmatist and an entrepreneur. I don’t have time to wishful thinking these people engage in. When I see something that’s broken and in decline, I see it as an opportunity to build something better. Something t...

Jeg er overbevist om at Vårherre driver denne verden og at det finnes en Gud. Han venter at vi skal delta i hans fortsatte skaperverk og gjøre verden stadig bedre, sier Kahan, og illustrerer poenget med en historie fra Talmud. En general kom til rabbi Akiva - en jødisk lærd som levde like etter Jesu tid - og spurte hvem som utrettet de beste ting på jorden, Gud eller mennesker. Rabbien sa han skulle svare når han hadde vært hjemme hos kona. Da han kom tilbake, hadde han med seg et fat der det på den ene siden var korn, og på den andre siden en kake kona hadde bakt. "Nå kan du smake hva som er best. Det ene har Gud skapt, det andre har kona skapt." - Herman Kahan, intervju i Vårt Land 4. mai 2013 Muffins fra min kones hender

Book:  The Medieval Machine : The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages by Jean Gimpel:   http://www.scribd.com/doc/84853370/Jean-Gimpel-The-Medieval-Machine-the-Industrial-Revolution-of-the-Middle-Ages An important classic of technological history, now available in full text at Scribd: The Middle Ages, writes French scholar Jean Gimpel, saw an extraordinary flourishing of technological development throughout Europe. With the era came waterwheels and clock towers, nearly uniform machine parts and improvements in public hygiene, vaulting cathedrals and towering city walls, and a notion of spiritual and earthly progress that promised better things to come. In analyzing the growth of precision in measurement and of the experimental sciences, and in considering the careers of medieval geniuses such as the architect-inventor Villard de Honnecourt, Gimpel clearly conveys the intellectual excitement of the time. Sadly, it was undone by religious intolerance, brutal warfare, an...

Ouromboros, exactly! The decline that's already taking place around us doesn't have any big explosions or fireworks; that's why so many people are so terrified of it, and invent a flurry of imaginary catastrophes and utopias to distract themselves from the fact that we're already in the Long Descent -- that this is what collapse looks like. - John Michael Greer

From P2P-Foundation . GIVE aims for Globally Integrated Village Environments , and is an initiative by Franz Nahrada to promote the expansion of Global Villages Here below, Franz explains its sevens strategic imperatives: Our seven themes in detail: (1) Global Villegiatura – Trans Market Economies “In a time when fewer and fewer productive industries supply the global markets with the full range of industrial basic goods, we have to understand that it is not feasible any more to make it the general rule of behaviour to export and sell values, lifestyles, commodities and ideologies to survive. We are far too many and too productive to do business as usual and waste our wealth in warfare economies. (We see the historical example of Venice which was a maritime trader nation, but vigourously engaged in land cultivation when it lost its sea power. The term “Villegiatura” was coined for the rediscovery of the hinterland, a cultural revolution into beauty and thriving cultural landsc...

These two bridges are situated on the same site, at Minnesund across Vorma River. I hope you too can feel the peace of the old bridge and the cold starkness of the new one. A clear evidence of the degeneration of society during this timespan. Click on the image for a magnification or to start a slideshow. Old railroad bridge from 1879 Foundation of the old bridge New bridge for E6 Foundation for the new bridge

1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a physical transformation from a world of large industrial and administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated villages. 2. We do not want to lose the achievements of science and technology, of culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ou...

Kommentar hos Levevei : I nattens mulm og mørke kom jeg til å huske et meget viktig essay av James Howard Kunstler i Orion Magazine for et par år tilbake, kalt Back to the Future: http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/6336 Konklusjonen på essayet er at vi har intet annet valg enn å gå tilbake til god, gammeldags småskalakompleksitet. Vi kan gjøre dette frivillig, eller tvinges til det av peak-oil og andre miljø- og ressurskriser. I forhold til Anders Asphaugs resonnement om at en administrativ eller statlig overstyring av samfunnet ikke er veien å gå, er jeg enig i dette. Statens rolle må være å legge til rette for selvorganisering: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20111101/frontiers-of-design-science Men selvorganisering er også et misforstått ord og forveksles gjerne med kaos. Selvorganisering er tvert i mot den guddomelige orden! Til alle tider har samfunn organisert seg gjennom mønsterspråk eller "pattern languages": - Peer-to-Peer Themes and...

Kommentar hos Levevei : Jeg satte meg ned for å lytte til dette intervjuet fordi jeg kjente meg så trøtt, og ville slappe av med en filosofisk diskusjon. Men jeg ble straks meget oppbrakt når Stålne hevder at verden har blitt mer kompleks, noe jeg hører igjen og igjen, men som er feil. Verden er like mye eller lite kompleks som i tidligere tider, hovedproblemet er at vi har forlatt småskalakompleksiteten til fordel for storskalakompleksitet. Dette går på tvers av alle biologiske systemer og vil føre til vår undergang. Kompleksitet er fundamentet både for bærekraft og det gode liv. Uten kompleksitet, dvs. kompleksitet med en fraktal fordelingsstruktur, er livet meningsløst: http://www.metropolismag.com/pov/20120330/science-for-designers-the-meaning-of-complexity Tidligere samfunn hadde en mye høyere grad av kompleksitet enn vårt eget! It is only in recent years that the mathematical sophistication of traditional form languages has begun to be documented. Mathematicians and ethnologists...

Vøringfossen er et utrolig sterkt senter og derfor et hellig sted. At en arkitekt skal få fylle dette stedet med sitt ego er forkastelig. Modernistene har allerede infiltrert kirken, nå gir de seg jammen i kast med å infiltrere naturen også. Alt skal underlegges deres geometriske fundamentalisme, alt skal kommersialiseres, alt skal være sensasjonsskapende. Å bygge et slikt kommersielt monument over Vøringfossen er like ille som å bygge ei tilsvarende bru over Chartres, for at turistene slik skulle kunne tråkke over (tråkke ned) denne katedralen. Vøringfossen er de norske fossefallenes Chartres! -  «Naturen rundt oss er ikke det vi bensinmennesker tror» – Arild Haaland

Watersheds can be considered a type of real-world network that is characterized by self-repeating or fractal-like patterns. Fractals are geometric patterns that possess the same proportions on different scales. Rivers and glaciers cut through the planet’s surface, leaving behind landscapes that may appear random or haphazard, but are actually quite precise. Whereas such patterns have been frequently ignored in designing or altering man-made landscapes, there is now interest in emulating them to create more sustainable and eco-compatible designs. – D.L. Marrin, Ph.D -  Hydromimicry: Water as a model for technology and management Image: Prokofiev

In 2007, a group of prominent environmentalists gathered in Aspen, Colorado, to discuss how to redesign the environmental movement to combat the linked environmental, social, and spiritual crises facing humanity. The group concluded that humanity needs a “new consciousness,” new stories, new values—including an “ethics of reverence for the Earth” and a sense of intergenerational responsibility. And that to spread these, the movement will need to redevelop its grassroots potential, diversify its sources of funding, and use a variety of innovative strategies like embedding environmental education into schools’ core curricula, doing a better job using media programming to spark environmental awareness, and establishing a Peace Corps–like effort that could help restore ecosystems and tackle global environmental challenges.10 The idea of deepening humanity’s environmental consciousness and redesigning the movement to help do this is certainly not new. In 1973 Norwegian philosopher Arne N...