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The Most Important Prayer

This is a world view in which acceptance of the whole and efforts to heal the whole, in the built world, can be seen as the most profound and most important forms of prayer. They are consistent with modern science and yet call into question some of science’s most deeply rooted assumptions. - Christopher Alexander

Prayers at the Sensoji Temple, Tokyo.

-Flickr.

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AnonymousMarch 12, 2012 at 12:54 AM
Hello Øyvind. I have been following your work for some time, with great interest. I would be honored if you took a peek at my post called Permadesign, and maybe shared feedback.

http://leavingbabylon.wordpress.com
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Øyvind HolmstadMarch 12, 2012 at 12:11 PM
Thank you very much! I will definitely look into your work! In one month my parents in law are coming here to take care of our baby and our house, hope to get more time for studying and working out articles then. Your work is of great importance, thank you for joining forces against the current paradigm!
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AnonymousMarch 13, 2012 at 11:14 PM
Good to see you both on EB and on my blog! I wonder, Øyvind, if you can recommend other permies who understand something of complexity and Alexander and would be up to thinking through permadesign... taking it the next step.

Leavergirl (vera)
(I have terrible time posting here so I pick the anonym version.)
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What it Means to be an Alexandrian

Of course, there exists a fundamental disagreement between my group of architect/philosopher friends, many of them Alexandrians (after Christopher Alexander), and most contemporary architects and academics. We believe that architecture is an extension of human cognition and symbiotic interaction with the environment. The latter group, on the contrary, believe in severing this millennial connection so as to create a hostile inhuman environment that expresses certain human psychoses. Contemporary architects don’t quite put it in this way, but either they are being dishonest, or they are fooling themselves. - Nikos A. Salingaros

Menneskeatferd er ikke tilpasset store samfunn!

Framtida er usikker og svært sannsynlig farlig. Vi bestemmer i dag ikke over egen framtid: Ingen av de å stemme på har gode løsninger. Økonomien lever sitt eget liv og har penger som verdimål, dette tømmer ressursene fortere enn de gjendannes fordi økt forbruk gir økt pengeoverskudd. Menneskeatferd er ikke tilpasset å gjøre noe med dette i store samfunn: Vi må organisere oss for å få fram evnene til samarbeid og bærekraft; for å holde igjen lysta på mer; som også er medfødt. - Terje Bongard

The Commons

Alain Lipietz, a French political figure and student of the commons, traces the word "commons" to William the Conquerer and the Normans - not the English, interestingly. The term "commons" supposedly comes from the Norman word commun, which comes from the word munus, which means both "gift" and "counter-gift", which is to say, a duty.

I think this etymology gets to the nub of the commons. We need to recover a world in which we all receive gifts and we all have duties. This is a very important way of being human. The expansion of centralized political and market structures has tragically eclipsed our need for gifts and duties. We rely on the institutions of the Market and the State for everything, leaving little room for personal agency or moral commitment. And so we have largely lost confidence in what Ivan Illich called the vernacular domain, the spaces in our everyday life in which we can create and shape and negotiate our lives. - David Bollier

The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems

"The builders of Florence, especially those building from about the year 1000 A.D. to 1500 A.D., lived and worked with an unshakable belief in God. As one looks at the works that came from their hands, God is everywhere: in the paintings now hanging in the Uffizi, in the Baptistery, in San Miniato, in the life and death of Beato Angelico living in his cell in the monastery of San Marco. For them, every stone was a gift to that unshakable belief in God they shared. It is the belief, the unshakable nature of the belief, its authenticity, and above all its solidity, which made it work effectively for them. We, in our time, need an authentic belief, a certainty, connected with the ultimate reaches of space and time -- which does the same for us." - Christopher Alexander

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