How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built by Stewart Brand

[Paul Harper]

Been watching this old BBC series on Youtube. I think some of the Hackerspace crowd may find this interesting. Especially Episode 2 'The Low Road' "Nobody cares what you do in there."

I have a copy of the book for anyone interested next time I am back in Phnom Penh.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn

Series can be watched on Youtube here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/brandst?feature=watch

This guy's done some notes for those short of time.

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/10/24/how_buildings_le.php

For those who don't know Stewart Brand he was a major influence on early internet computing with the Well and even earlier with Doug Englebart's 1968 demonstration of computer technologies which would later become mainstream (ie email, video conferencing.) This even predated Xerox PARC. Doug's work is featured in Episode 3 of the Machine That Changed The World which is available as a legal bittorent file. Well worth watching for people interested in the� history of computing. Englebart and Xerox PARC were light years ahead of their time.

http://www.truefilms.com/archives/2008/10/the_machine_tha.php

Regards,

Paul

[jack...@fastmail.fm]

Nice links Paul, thanks.

I've also been thinking a bit about building design the last few months, perhaps some kind of futuristic version of the old khmer wooden house that can be packed up and moved, and of course re-organized as requirements change.  The currently popular concrete shop-houses seem to be at the low end of the climate-suitability scale for example.

 

 

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013, at 13:59, Paul Harper wrote:

Been watching this old BBC series on Youtube. I think some of the Hackerspace crowd may find this interesting. Especially Episode 2 'The Low Road' "Nobody cares what you do in there."

 

I have a copy of the book for anyone interested next time I am back in Phnom Penh.

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn

 

Series can be watched on Youtube here:

 

http://www.youtube.com/user/brandst?feature=watch

 

This guy's done some notes for those short of time.

 

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2004/10/24/how_buildings_le.php

 

For those who don't know Stewart Brand he was a major influence on early internet computing with the Well and even earlier with Doug Englebart's 1968 demonstration of computer technologies which would later become mainstream (ie email, video conferencing.) This even predated Xerox PARC. Doug's work is featured in Episode 3 of the Machine That Changed The World which is available as a legal bittorent file. Well worth watching for people interested in the  history of computing. Englebart and Xerox PARC were light years ahead of their time.

 

http://www.truefilms.com/archives/2008/10/the_machine_tha.php

 

Regards,

 

Paul

 

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[Darren Jensen]

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