├── .gitignore ├── 2016-12-10_chat_log.md ├── 2016-12-10_meeting_notes.md ├── 2016-12-26_meeting_notes.md ├── 2017-1-28_meeting_notes.md ├── 2017-1-7_meeting_notes.md ├── README.md └── a_pattern_language_reading_schedule.md /.gitignore: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | 2 | apl_icon_sketch.ai 3 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2016-12-10_chat_log.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Zachary Schultethat's okay! 2 | 11:11 AMZachary Schulteill try that after this 3 | 11:11 AMZachary Schultepatterns seem cool, i want to finally dive deep into this text 4 | 11:11 AMZachary Schultei'd like to build more pattern databases i guess for all sorts of things 5 | 11:12 AMZachary Schulteright now i'm interested in org development and interpersonal communication 6 | 11:12 AMZachary Schulteokay im gonna restart this ^.^ 7 | 11:12 AMÉdouard U.i can't hear anything...checking out audio output 8 | 11:13 AMMelanie Richards+1 9 | 11:14 AMMelanie RichardsSounds good 10 | 11:17 AMÉdouard U.sick 11 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.i can hear yall 12 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.this computer's microphone is dead tho 13 | 11:27 AMCarly Ayressup ed 14 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.hi 15 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.no talky 16 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.microphone broken 17 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.i'll type thoughts 18 | 11:27 AMÉdouard U.oh yeah holy shit this book was so utopian 19 | 11:28 AMÉdouard U.i was loling 20 | 11:28 AMÉdouard U.at like, the idea that countryside and city could co-exist in the same spaces 21 | 11:28 AMÉdouard U.these days 22 | 11:28 AMÉdouard U.that point reminds me: I started writing in the book at certain points that I felt needed updates 23 | 11:29 AMÉdouard U.since it was written in the 70s and all 24 | 11:29 AMÉdouard U.quite a bit 25 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.it's hard to type these thoughts 26 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.heh 27 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.i'll like 28 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.update in the slack 29 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.at a later point 30 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.we can continue 31 | 11:30 AMÉdouard U.I think in an earlier cybernetics club we did, buut I can't grasp detail 32 | 11:31 AMÉdouard U.s 33 | 11:31 AMBrendan Schlagelreminds me of this book which is dope: https://smile.amazon.com/Origins-Form-Natural-Man-made-Things-Why/dp/1589798082 34 | 11:32 AMÉdouard U.same 35 | 11:35 AMÉdouard U.re that idea 36 | 11:35 AMÉdouard U.'how much of this is possible/outdated' 37 | 11:36 AMÉdouard U.that makes me think that it makes a lot of sense that software architects picked this book up 38 | 11:36 AMÉdouard U.since the physical contraints are too much 39 | 11:36 AMÉdouard U.yesss 40 | 11:37 AMÉdouard U.so true 41 | 11:37 AMÉdouard U.dependencies... 42 | 11:37 AMÉdouard U.etc. 43 | 11:37 AMÉdouard U.obviously 44 | 11:39 AMÉdouard U.:eyeroll: 45 | 11:39 AMÉdouard U.lmao 46 | 11:40 AMÉdouard U.ibm 47 | 11:40 AMÉdouard U.back when i was there 48 | 11:40 AMÉdouard U.2 huge 49 | 11:40 AMÉdouard U.yess 50 | 11:41 AMÉdouard U.so good 51 | 11:41 AMMelanie RichardsCarly, just added that book to my to-read :P 52 | 11:43 AMCarly Ayresdef one of my favorite reads this year 53 | 11:43 AMCarly Ayreshttps://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Rules-Technology-Stupidity-Bureaucracy/dp/1612195180 54 | 11:43 AMÉdouard U.omg 55 | 11:43 AMCarly Ayresyes 56 | 11:43 AMÉdouard U.the theories 57 | 11:43 AMÉdouard U.on how the US could be restructured 58 | 11:44 AMÉdouard U.are so fun to read about 59 | 11:44 AMÉdouard U.trying to find a certain link 60 | 11:45 AMÉdouard U.re this... 61 | 11:45 AMÉdouard U.the us should be restructured around companies 62 | 11:45 AMÉdouard U.New Googlia 63 | 11:45 AMÉdouard U.omfg 64 | 11:46 AMÉdouard U.all conversations 65 | 11:46 AMÉdouard U.lead to neoreactionaries 66 | 11:46 AMCarly Ayreshttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/09/trump-win-california-secede-calexit-silicon-valley 67 | 11:46 AMÉdouard U.the dude menicious moldbug wrote essays on that topic 68 | 11:46 AMÉdouard U.he's currently trying to create cryptographic 'property' 69 | 11:47 AMÉdouard U.via Urbit 70 | 11:47 AMÉdouard U.i think piecemeal, some of these things sound super applicable 71 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.which is technically alexander's point he made in an earlier paragraph 72 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.is that you can't uproot 73 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.nyc 74 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.for example 75 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.and just implement these things 76 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.that would but cray 77 | 11:50 AMÉdouard U.yeah... 78 | 11:52 AMÉdouard U.2 tru 79 | 11:52 AMÉdouard U.yes 80 | 11:54 AMÉdouard U.yessss 81 | 11:54 AMÉdouard U.totally 82 | 11:54 AMÉdouard U.taking this idea into an internet/digital context, it's interesting to think about 'allocated digital space' 83 | 11:55 AMÉdouard U.servers perhaps 84 | 11:55 AMÉdouard U.shared by multiple ppl 85 | 11:55 AMÉdouard U.yeah like what does that even mean???? 86 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.idk 87 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.i wish slacks were easier to peer into 88 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.that's like 89 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.one big thing 90 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.i think would maybe get them to be more open 91 | 11:56 AMÉdouard U.omFG 92 | 11:57 AMÉdouard U.holy shit.. 93 | 11:57 AMÉdouard U.wow so many memories 94 | 11:57 AMÉdouard U.of MMO markets 95 | 11:57 AMÉdouard U.i miss irc so much!!! it was so flexible 96 | 11:58 AMÉdouard U.and open 97 | 11:58 AMÉdouard U.could be sealed shut or completely open 98 | 11:58 AMÉdouard U.that's a tough one 99 | 11:59 AMÉdouard U.idk 100 | 11:59 AMÉdouard U.where you grow memes 101 | 12:00 PMÉdouard U.meme farmers 102 | 12:01 PMMelanie Richardslol 103 | 12:01 PMMelanie Richardswhat would corn be in this analog? 104 | 12:03 PMMelanie Richards*analogy 105 | 12:03 PMCarolyn Zhangclickbait headlines 106 | 12:03 PMCarolyn Zhangregurgitated content 107 | 12:03 PMCarolyn Zhangoo those entire articles about one instagram or whatever 108 | 12:03 PMMelanie Richardsbest of reddit/tumblr posts 109 | 12:04 PMÉdouard U.hell ya 110 | 12:06 PMMelanie Richardstruuuuue 111 | 12:06 PMMelanie Richardsmeanwhile in Seattle, someone has been yelling "asshole" for the past min or so 112 | 12:09 PMÉdouard U.this reminds me of a project by jon kyle 113 | 12:09 PMÉdouard U.let me find 114 | 12:09 PMÉdouard U.lets you visit links according to time spans you set 115 | 12:09 PMÉdouard U.so you can only click a link once every 5 min... 116 | 12:10 PMÉdouard U....or 5 years 117 | 12:10 PMÉdouard U.or 1000 years 118 | 12:10 PMCarly Ayresstumbleupon for... 119 | 12:10 PMCarly Ayresdifferent opinions / links / perspectives 120 | 12:10 PMMelanie Richardseveryone right now: am I stupid?????? 121 | 12:11 PMÉdouard U.https://hardlyeverything.com/ 122 | 12:11 PMÉdouard U.Confrontation Class 123 | 12:12 PMZachary Schulteconfrontation engine 124 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U.oh jeez this is a tough one 125 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U.building in confrontation into the web seems so difficult 126 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U.seems opposed to Open Web 127 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U.or could be construed as such 128 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U./shrug 129 | 12:13 PMÉdouard U.oimfg 130 | 12:16 PMÉdouard U.you know how you have to take classes for driving 131 | 12:16 PMÉdouard U.classes for using the internet 132 | 12:16 PMCarly Ayresi was just going to write that 133 | 12:16 PMBrendan Schlagellol "browsers ed" 134 | 12:16 PMCarly Ayrestheres an artist whose work focuses on teens and how they learn to use the internet 135 | 12:16 PMÉdouard U.DMV for the internet 136 | 12:17 PMÉdouard U.hell yeah 137 | 12:17 PMCarly Ayresforgetting the name, but francis knows 138 | 12:17 PMCarly Ayresbots as training for interacting with each other 139 | 12:17 PMÉdouard U.++ 140 | 12:17 PMCarly Ayreshow to create your online persona 101 141 | 12:17 PMÉdouard U.whoa 142 | 12:18 PMÉdouard U.maybe internets could learn a thing or two from MMOS 143 | 12:19 PMÉdouard U.in that regard 144 | 12:19 PMÉdouard U.or large social platforms 145 | 12:19 PMÉdouard U.like,, how to intentionally pose yourself 146 | 12:19 PMÉdouard U.we should teach people that usernames are the same as actual names 147 | 12:20 PMÉdouard U."these are real people" 148 | 12:20 PMCarly Ayresconditioning for digital socialization 149 | 12:20 PMÉdouard U.city country fingers of the internet - forums for certain subject matters 150 | 12:21 PMÉdouard U.omg i was trying to remember this the whole time 151 | 12:21 PMCarly Ayresi know ed loves github 152 | 12:24 PMCarly Ayresi can figure it out ~*~*~*~ 153 | 12:25 PMMelanie Richardscarly has my favorite reactions <3 154 | 12:27 PMÉdouard U.i'd be happy to 155 | 12:28 PMÉdouard U.oh my god im so delayed 156 | 12:28 PMÉdouard U.fffff 157 | 12:28 PMCarly AyresNO 158 | 12:28 PMCarly Ayresa few days before or after 159 | 12:28 PMFrancis Tsengxmas eve +1 160 | 12:28 PMCarly Ayreslove xmas eve 161 | 12:28 PMFrancis Tsengits my bday :) 162 | 12:28 PMÉdouard U.someone be sure to copy-paste the contents of this chat 163 | 12:28 PMÉdouard U.into another format 164 | 12:28 PMCarly Ayreshbd frnsys video chat 165 | 12:28 PMFrancis Tsengnot today, xmas eve 166 | 12:28 PMCarly Ayresd'uh 167 | 12:29 PMMelanie Richardsbyeeee 168 | 12:29 PMMelanie Richards<3 <3 <3 169 | 12:29 PMÉdouard U.byebye! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2016-12-10_meeting_notes.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | APL Reading Group Mtg #1 - 10 December 2016 2 | Present: Lukas, Sam, Brendan, Amardeep, Carolyn, Carly, Melanie, Zachary, Ed, Francis 3 | (LA / Bay Area / New York / Seattle) 4 | 5 | ~ 6 | 7 | ## Notes 8 | 9 | Intros, reasons why we want to read the book. 10 | - General interest in application to systems, taxonomies. 11 | - Thinking about meeting about every other week. About 100 pages per session. 12 | - One reader leads each week as an opportunity to factor it through their interests. 13 | 14 | What part of the book are outdated? Not relevant any more? 15 | - Dense farming? 16 | - Utopian creating of cities rather than reforming what we have? 17 | - Manmade food processes not yet developed? 18 | 19 | A bit of contradiction present. The book is against sprawl, but also interested in a far-reaching spread of development. 20 | 21 | Treat this book as a hypothesis… all in metaphor. 22 | 23 | Did the 4th book (re: political applications) ever come out? 24 | The Oregon Experiment has some real implementation details. 25 | 26 | Are we reading this with a critical lens? 27 | Can we bring this into “how to use” in 2017? 28 | 29 | It almost reads as [software] documentation. 30 | Justification of patterns, explanations of dependencies. 31 | How to write with enough abstraction but also readability? “Poetry” 32 | 33 | Can we see the carrying capacities discussed in the book (i.e. “on being the right size”) in institutions around us? 34 | - Big Tech Companies etc… 35 | - USA is too big. 36 | - “Bio-Regionalism” - boundaries based off natural edges (mountain ranges, plateaus, rivers) 37 | - What about city-states? “Sanctuary Cities” as self-contained ecosystems. 38 | 39 | “Good”/“Bad” in the book based around individual & group happiness. But the world is based around money to drive change. 40 | 41 | Intricacies of use of public space; NYC building lobbies as legislated public spaces. 42 | 43 | “Internet structural patterns” 44 | - Can we paint internet analogues to many of these patterns? 45 | - Platforms as cities? 46 | - Platforms as regions? 47 | - Countryside as ability to do independent digital homesteading? 48 | - ref ecosystems like reddit—large subreddits with connections to communities elsewhere online. 49 | 50 | How far can we extend metaphors? 51 | 52 | The Urban-Rural IRL information ecosystems — how do they relate to internet information ecosystems? Is there “travel time” online (via search or throttling) 53 | 54 | What tools do we have to educate ourselves and “the other” of each other? Can it be done by choice? Should it? “Confrontation Engine” 55 | 56 | Does “onboarding” to infrastructural platforms matter? 57 | Real world examples: don’t pee in the pool, obey traffic laws. 58 | Would a ruleset for netizens be necessary? 59 | 60 | Can we come up with a Pattern Language for the internet? 61 | 62 | ## Next Time 63 | 64 | Amardeep leads next session—will send when2meet. Around Dec 24th. 65 | 66 | ## Links Shared 67 | 68 | https://irl.cs.ucla.edu/papers/right-size.html 69 | http://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/21701757/ 70 | 71 | http://www.natureoforder.com/overview.htm 72 | 73 | https://www.wikiwand.com/en/The_Utopia_of_Rules 74 | https://smile.amazon.com/Utopia-Rules-Technology-Stupidity-Bureaucracy/dp/1612195180?sa-no-redirect=1 75 | 76 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_is_theft! 77 | 78 | https://hardlyeverything.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2016-12-26_meeting_notes.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | APL Meeting #2 - 26 December 2016 2 | 3 | Amardeep (leading), Carly, Sam, Max, Francis, Lukas 4 | 5 | ~ 6 | 7 | Should we try https://zoom.us/ ? 8 | Google Hangouts working best in Opera (lol) 9 | 10 | ~ 11 | 12 | Some of “Mosaic of Subcultures” logic is iffy—he doesn’t cite much, are people in urban societies really “weak in character” ? 13 | 14 | What’s the value in Pattern 9? How valuable is it to split “home life” from “work life” ? 15 | 16 | Appreciated that the “utility” of urban elements is recognized as well as the “feeling” of many of the spatial elements. 17 | 18 | Pluralities of downtowns already exist (cities like LA, Berlin, Tokyo). What happens to “nuclei” that become not desirable? 19 | 20 | Spatially, a lot of political processes are tucked away. They are semi-accessible, many urban residents must push through alienation to find power in local political processes. 21 | 22 | How much of the book needs revisions for remote work. How do we navigate social relationships that aren’t (physically) spatially embedded? How about Chinese danwei systems? (http://image.slidesharecdn.com/chinasworkersrising-150324112818-conversion-gate01/95/chinas-workers-risingmar242015-16-638.jpg?cb=1427214641) 23 | 24 | “We need spatial politics & digital politics!” 25 | 26 | Should we be looking at more maps as we read? 27 | Good to constantly imagine spaces we’ve been that fit the parameters the authors discuss. 28 | 29 | Public ownership of transit? 30 | Private ownership of transit? 31 | How to make public-private work better? 32 | (existing system in NY might not have enough supervision or synthesis with the rest of system; too many subcontractors) 33 | 34 | Can we have schools as a form for certain types of learning? And encourage non-schools for other things? 35 | Lots of interesting things going on at Charter Schools these days e.g. “Design Tech” in San Mateo 36 | 37 | “Four Story Limit” — how can density be maintained? How can we do this and avoid sprawl? 38 | If the goal is to keep people close to the street, why not have multi-level streets? (ref Final Fantasy 7 city). Bring the streets up? 39 | http://www.brothers-brick.com/2013/06/27/cyberpocalypse-now/ 40 | 41 | http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/21/upshot/Mapping-the-Shadows-of-New-York-City.html?_r=1 42 | 43 | “KINETIC DEPRIVATION” does suck. 44 | 45 | How might “Life cycles” manifest online? Encourage intermingling of people at different phases. 46 | Against the discretization of life stages tho… 47 | ref Forums where you get respect based on how many posts you have. 48 | 49 | City Skyline game community is REALLY into road layout stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ItTFUmXHI 50 | 51 | “Men and Women” very dated. 52 | Latent sexism in the book… 53 | 54 | ~ 55 | 56 | Idea: if we all read some of the referenced papers & report back on their value. Can we start building repositories of case studies to validate or work against some of the proposed patterns? i.e. “Web of Shopping”—what’s an example? 57 | (or an “APL Reader” for later…) 58 | 59 | How the heck is this all supposed to be implemented? 60 | Could we see a map of their ideal city? 61 | How many of the patterns can successfully coexist? 62 | The book might be too atomic for us to get a full image. 63 | 64 | Any connections between APL and Jane Jacobs ? 65 | 66 | “Jacobs Spillover” — by going about your day in a mixed-use neighborhood, your interstitial time is spent face-to-face with neighbors and various things on-the-street that build a rich community. Isolated commutes can destroy this. 67 | 68 | Is there a benefit to having commute time between work and life (opposite of software campuses)? Or is it problematic to have different areas of our life (work and leisure, friends and other friends and family) be completely separate (ultimately, we live one life)? 69 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2017-1-28_meeting_notes.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Meeting 4 (for ~1/28/17) → 2 | Attendees: Brendan, Lukas, Sam, Zach, Melanie 3 | 4 | ## Discussion of Learning Garden pamphlet for this group 5 | 6 | * Structure in a similar way to the Pattern Language book 7 | * Cream paper: [cosmic latte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte) ;] 8 | 9 | ## Open discussion 10 | 11 | * [Christopher Alexander's works](http://www.patternlanguage.com/leveltwo/caframe.htm?/../ca/vitae.htm#buildings) 12 | * Book was dragged on Goodreads by an objectivist who took umbrage with a person telling people what to do and how to design 13 | 14 | ## Patterns discussed 15 | 16 | ### #73: Adventure playground 17 | 18 | * Solution from book: playground in each neighborhood of raw materials encouraging self-creation from the kids 19 | * [Lady Allen of Hurtwood, “Planning for Play”, 1968](https://www.dropbox.com/s/rbty50hqapmwfmk/PlanningforPlaydownloadablepdf-planning_for_play-order-2017-01-28-882050.pdf?dl=0) 20 | * [AnjiPlay](http://www.anjiplay.com/rights) 21 | 22 | ### #86: children's home 23 | 24 | * Problem from book: looking after kids a deeper issue than "babysitting" 25 | * Solution from book: in each neighborhood, second large rambling home available to kids of all ages, open 24/7 26 | * [Summerhill school](http://www.summerhillschool.co.uk/) 27 | 28 | ### #75: the family 29 | 30 | * Problem from book: the nuclear family is not by itself a viable social form 31 | * Solution from book: empower 8-10 people to come together and set up a communal/multi-family household 32 | * Checkered past w/ commune and cults, but found: 33 | * [Oneida community](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community): all the parents took care of all the children; coined the term "free love"; came under fire from wider community for some sexual and parenting practices 34 | * [cohousing.org](http://cohousing.org/): offer legal guides on how to make this possible, directory of cohousing 35 | * Other lifestyles sort of mirroring collective families: 36 | * Mormon polygamy/sister wives 37 | * Artist collectives 38 | * Cultures w/ multi-generational households 39 | * Could co-parenting be on a spectrum? Do you need to go full-on commune or could there be a setup where a few houses have a common space between that creates these ad hoc relationships 40 | * A cultural pattern w/ spacial ramifications 41 | * Book doesn't go all in on decentralizing or centralizing: it's a little bit of both 42 | 43 | ### #80: self-governing workshops and offices 44 | 45 | * Several other patterns intertwined (#81: services w/o red tape, for example) 46 | * Problem from book: employees don't enjoy work when they're stripped of agency and community 47 | * Solution from book: worker-owned units of 15-20 people 48 | * Co-op, syndicate 49 | * [Herbert Spencer](http://www.iep.utm.edu/spencer/), economist (and man of good and bad ideas) saw syndicate as evolution of a union 50 | * Family businesses are an example of this 51 | * [King Arthur Flour](http://www.kingarthurflour.com/): over 350 employees and worker owned 52 | * [Anarchistic free school](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchistic_free_school) 53 | 54 | ### 84: teenage society 55 | 56 | * Problem from book: modern high school fails to provide appropriate rites of passage 57 | * Solution from book: set up model of adult society where students have adult responsibilities 58 | * Spokane, WA: [City School](http://wvcs.wvsd.org/) 59 | * Students take on the roles of adult members of community, like police, lawyers, accountants, radio DJs 60 | 61 | ### 85: shopfront schools 62 | 63 | * Problem from book: students need to learn by doing outside the home, build basic skills and learning habits 64 | * Solution from book: tiny, independent schools with 1:10 student ratio, in public areas of community, with a shopfront 65 | * [Riverpoint Academy](http://riverpoint.mead354.org/), Spokane WA: exploratory learning high school 66 | * 150 students, located in a strip mall 67 | * Manufacturing space, entrepreneur space 68 | * [Monarch School](http://www.monarchschool.org/), Houston TX 69 | * Outdoor gardens and learning studios 70 | * Living building challenge: zero-impact buildings 71 | * At this studio, children w/ neurological differences take care of different functions of this building 72 | * A school designed by the people who are there. Example: [Deep Springs](http://www.deepsprings.edu/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /2017-1-7_meeting_notes.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Meeting 3 (for ~1/7/17) → Pattern 48 / pg. 258 (110 pages) 2 | Sam, Max, Amardeep, Melanie 3 | 4 | a couple of these sections on density imply a zoning system based around density rather than use, similar to [japanese zoning systems](http://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html) 5 | 6 | Viewing of [pioneer square in seattle](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Pioneer+Square,+Seattle,+WA+98104/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x54906aa4ebc58a73:0x387ef3dcb4e389c?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj8zInPg7HRAhWHqVQKHZ7wDdgQ8gEIgQEwDw) as an unsuccessful Activity Node: 7 | - active at night but not during the day 8 | - wide streets discourage impromptu gatherings 9 | 10 | core thesis of APL: wide streets = no people 11 | 12 | a few cities have 'car free days' to encourage Promenade behavior 13 | - [lower east side NYC](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lower+East+Side,+New+York,+NY/@40.7170172,-74.0023849,14.35z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x89c2598015ac8beb:0x59b849fea56b6a70!8m2!3d40.715033!4d-73.9842724) on Sundays 14 | - [King St in Charleston](https://www.google.com/maps/place/King+St,+Charleston,+SC/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88fe7a420abe4e23:0xc4d9a2e9fc9e31df?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjNy6hLHRAhWKrFQKHbaFDuoQ8gEIHzAB) 15 | 16 | so many of these patterns rely on the major traffic arteries running perpendicular to ambulatory friendly roads 17 | 18 | Society seems to view well lit spaces as 'Safe' and poorly lit spaces as 'Dangerous'. We feel safer if we are 'Seen' (talking on the phone/video chatting while walking through dark places). Can we make any place safer by lighting it more? Enter short story potential: 19 | - make the moon brighter "Two Suns" 20 | - light as a capitalistic force (how have our work schedules changed with developoments in artificial light) 21 | - light as work 22 | 23 | Interchange failures can promote unity 24 | - trudging through snow in toronto 25 | - climbing stairs with a huge herd of people in Shibuya 26 | 27 | this book feels like an idealized (impossible) system meant to be held in tension with the pragmatic ad-hoc planning behind most projects 28 | 29 | how do we balance the creative community of young people in isolation with blending of life cycles? this may be a false dichotomy 30 | 31 | housing hills sound dope but difficult to implement, requires terraforming to create multi-level building pads 32 | 33 | American fear of death manifested in how we isolate our elders. Our Culture/zoning laws tends towards homogenous age and use groupings (old folks homes and separate work/industrial zones). This reinforces the *`unreal charade`* and the *`plastic unreality`* of contemporary society. love these terms 34 | 35 | Yes to mixed work communities! various fields interacting builds empathy and interdisciplinary potential 36 | 37 | are there potential benefits to economies of scale that APL misses? the affordability provided by big box stores, how to balance that with more ethical consumption and community building 38 | 39 | Shout out to LG for the *`University as Marketplace`*. stark opposition to US school system, Amardeep mentions [this vid](https://www.c-span.org/video/?67583-1/technology-education). Reminded of orgs like coding bootcamps and general assembly as well. 40 | 41 | Could we make town halls more accessible with digital versions of them? Using voter info and real names for accountability and ease of use. 42 | 43 | *`Necklace of Community Projects`* sounds great but how to build into existing neighborhoods? Publicly owned trucks with large platform for booths and copy machines, could circle the block slowly and allow people to hop on and off (could also work with zeppelins?). The Necklace also sounds like a publicly supported media outlet 44 | 45 | Thinking about new awareness post-election around how media companies are supported, and taking a more active subscriber role, acknowledging financially what media we value. Melanie mentioned [Blendle](https://blendle.com/) allowing readers to pay journalists per article. 46 | 47 | we need more combination dance/medical clubs. `free physical with drink ticket` 48 | 49 | anyone have links for groups that are pursuing the health first rather than symptomatic care? 50 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | ##### A Pattern Language: Reading Group & Notes 2 | ###### Reading group for [A Pattern Language](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language). 3 | 4 | — 5 | 6 | We meet approximately biweekly, reading ~100 pages at a time. Each session is conducted by one of the group members. 7 | 8 | We’re doing this mostly just to read the book, but are also interested in applications of systems and pattern languages in our own lives and work. 9 | 10 | — 11 | 12 | ##### Resources 13 | 14 | 1. [Are.na channel for mixed links](https://www.are.na/edouard-u/a-pattern-language) 15 | 2. [PDF of the book](https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/789525/63b11381fb608370170f3fa9130ecf1c.pdf) 16 | 3. [Download eBook](https://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6347643/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building_and_A_Pattern_Language) 17 | 4. [Website transcription](http://www.iwritewordsgood.com/apl/set.htm) 18 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /a_pattern_language_reading_schedule.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Tentative schedule for what we'll read every couple weeks + when we'll meet to discuss it! 2 | 3 | # Section 1 4 | - ~~Meeting 1 (for 12/10/16) → Pattern 7 / pg. 40 [COMPLETE!]~~ 5 | - ~~Meeting 2 (for ~12/24/16) → Pattern 27 / pg. 148 (108 pages)~~ 6 | - Meeting 3 (for ~1/7/17) → Pattern 48 / pg. 258 (110 pages) 7 | - Meeting 4 (for ~1/21/17) → Pattern 74 / pg. 374 (116 pages) 8 | - Meeting 5 (for ~2/4/17) → Pattern 94 / pg. 459 (85 pages) 9 | - *I’m down to lead this one! -Brendan* 10 | 11 | # Section 2 12 | - Meeting 6 (for ~2/18/17) → Pattern 118 / pg. 578 (119 pages) 13 | - Meeting 7 (for ~3/4/17) → Pattern 145 / pg. 688 (110 pages) 14 | - Meeting 8 (for ~3/18/17) → Pattern 168 / pg. 788 (100 pages) 15 | - Meeting 9 (for ~4/1/17) → Pattern 204 / pg. 931 (143 pages) 16 | 17 | # Section 3 18 | - Meeting 10 (for ~4/15/17) → Pattern 225 / pg. 1062 (131 pages) 19 | - Meeting 11 (for ~4/29/17) → Pattern 253 / pg. 1166 (104 pages) 20 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------