January 2009
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Mitchell Joachim Has a Posse
Dressed in architect black and sporting dreadlocks, Mitchell Joachim isn’t your average Whole Foods envirogeek. For one thing, he speaks in an intense staccato punctuated with words like peristaltic and epiphetic. And don’t get him started on sustainability. “I don’t like the term,” he says. “It’s not evocative enough. You don’t want your...
Jan 14th
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Human Ecosystems: Building
Jan 14th
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Human Ecosystems: Abandoned
Jan 14th
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Human Ecosystems: Corridors
Jan 14th
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Human Ecosystems: Commons
Jan 14th
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My Perfect Future on a Friday Afternoon
What makes a dream so distinctly dreamlike?  How can strange situations be so familiar?  Most of all, how can we re-create the open, playful nature of our best dreams in our waking lives in waking communities?  I would like more dream architecture in my waking world. Architecture is ready to join music in a post-everything, omni-culture zone that incorporates the best of everything and...
Jan 9th
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#mandalaOS Human Sensory Modality + Neural Network
or… IN THE FUTURE, WE BETTER NOT BE BORING OmnivateLLC Chief Visionary Tim sez: Also found this: Anthropogenic Biomes, A Framework for Ecology & Earth Science in the 21st Century. This all feels like a convergence with the resilient communities of John Robb and the Urbanates as organizational units within the North American Technate. Which is neither here nor there. It’s just a...
Jan 9th
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#mandalaOS - Living Interface or SymbioticA...
This is a response to Tim’s Permaculture Software, Noogenics, Living Natural Organic Interface. MINIATURE EARS? REALLY? REALLY? Tissue culture and tissue engineering represent a new area for artistic engagement. These branches of biomedical research have a major influence on perceptions of body, self and medical thinking. Tissue engineering enable researchers to grow three dimensional...
Jan 8th
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#mandalaOS - Nature as Interface
“R&D = Research and Duplicate.” Note: “nature as interface” doesn’t turn up very many results in El Goog — only one, in fact.  Time to change that and own the phrase, nay?  This is the new SEO, refuting the zero-sum logic of PPC competition. If you can push this meme harder, good. Do so. “A clue to this function may be found in the circumstance...
Jan 7th
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