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Mingei: Art Without Heroes by Roisin Inglesby

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A book of snowflakes from 1830s Japan.

Sekka Zusetsu (雪華図説), this 1832 book of woodblock prints by Doi Toshitsura (1789–1848) reflects twenty years of a life devoted to “snow flowers” (sekka).

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Exploring 'living' graphs. Beautiful and somewhat addictive.

Graph rewriting automata.

This is close to how life works ...

znah.net/graphs/

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The theory behind GRAs (Graph Rewriting Automata)

This is a brilliant concept blend.

Something like this is happening as we live.

paulcousin.net/graph-rewrit...

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Resilient Landscape by Marina Tabussum

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The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century by André Sorensen

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Ando by Masao Furuyama

On Ando Tadao's achitecture

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Innovation Methods Mapping: De-mystifying 80+ Years of Innovation Process Design by GK VanPatter and Elizabeth Pastor

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In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki

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Parts and Places: The Structures of Spatial Representation by Roberto Casati and Achille C. Varzi

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Shadows
Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time by Roberto Casati

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Patterns of Distributed Systems by Unmesh Joshi

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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software by Eric Evans

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Articulating Design Decisions: Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience by Tom Greever

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The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality by

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The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape by James Howard Kunstler

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Civilizing American Cities: Writings On City Landscapes by Frederick Law Olmsted

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Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

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Reading What is Intelligence: Lessons from AI about Evolution, Computing and Minds by Blaise Agüera y Arcas

Illuminating, highly recommend.

whatisintelligence.antikythera.org

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Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

In case you missed it, this essay by Anthropic founder Dario Amodei is framing the debate about AI risk and ethics.

www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...

#AI #ethics #fairness

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The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design by by Roman Mars and Kurt Kohlstedt

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

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How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us by John Maeda

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The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda

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User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant

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Always, Owned by What We Own by Wang Jianwei
Translated by Gao Yubing

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Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and his students at University of Calgary of done much fascinating work on applying mathematical and computational models to biology. There is much beauty and fascination here.

algorithmicbotany.org/papers/

#biology #algorithms #design #AI #fractals

The Quiet Power of Reflective Games In an industry that prizes fast-paced, time-pressured decision-making, reflective games invite players to meditate on life’s beauty, banality, and the spaces in between.

Fascinating article on slow games. Games that are intentionally slow paced and that invite reflection.

I plan to read the book by Victor Navarro-Remesal .

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-quiet-po...

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The Exceptionally Simple Theory of Sketching by George Hlavacs

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The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants by Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz and Aristid Lindenmayer

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