Archive for April, 2007
Core77 – Enlightened Innovation
Core77 – Enlightened Innovation
Traditional business models are failing in the face of global competition, and American companies are scouring design schools for design-innovators to lead them into the twenty-first century with creative strategies. Great. But the question is, where will these young designers lead us? Will their skills in systems thinking and problem solving simply be exploited to make more money for bottom-line corporations? Or will these innovators find the courage to weave a conscience into their design solutions for corporate America.
And will they know how?
Check out your Ecological Footprint!
I've just calculated my Ecological Footprint on Earth Day's website (http://www.earthday.net). I thought you might be interested.
The Ecological Footprint estimates how much land and water people need to support what they use and absorb what they discard. The Footprint Quiz figures out your footprint, and then lets you compare it to what other people use and to what is available on this planet.
Check it out!
Self-Organizing Systems: rEvolutionary Art, Science, and Literature (ELO)
This is a symposium at UCLA from 2004 that I came across while doing a search for “systems art.” I haven’t had a chance to listen to the proceedings yet, but they sound tasty.
The description I’m most intrigued about is Sue Lewak’s, UCLA Dept. of English.
“‘I’m sure those are not the right words’: The Language of ‘No-Sense’and Self -Organizing Systems in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, approaches the idea of self – organization through the dissolution of macroworld rules. Indeed, it is through Alice’s negation of conventional rules that she develops the ability to “form” a coherent microworld system. Thus, as Alice’s gradual acclimation into the wondrous language of “no-sense” indicates, self-organization at the microscale lies in the ability to perceive an existing system, rather than in the creation of a new one.
visit the site here:
Self-Organizing Systems: rEvolutionary Art, Science, and Literature (ELO)
and the accompanying website here
The Unquantifiable Measurement – Negotiations Between Science & Art (4/9)
Via ART-SCI Chicago
The Unquantifiable Measurement – Negotiations Between Science & Art (4/9)
A talk by Jan-Henrik Andersen
Monday April 9th 2007, 4:10pm
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Building, room 1307
The lecture seeks to identify and discuss how to access the workspace between art and science. Which possibilities lie in this space, which approaches are available to artists and designers, and how to negotiate the very premises that supports both terms? Each aspires to their own version of truth about the human condition – whether we’re talking about ecologies, identities or the space we’re bound to share. The lecture will discuss the possibility of creating connections between the two terms, and how to retain the very premises of each without violating for example the logic and verifiability of science, and the creative freedom of art.
