The Rumpus.net » The Design Observer Group http://therumpus.net Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Dictionary For The Future http://therumpus.net/2011/08/dictionary-for-the-future/ http://therumpus.net/2011/08/dictionary-for-the-future/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:40:56 +0000 Lisa Dusenbery http://therumpus.net/?p=84914 Lean Logic: A Dictionary For the Future and How To Survive It describes itself as “a community of essays about inventive, cooperative self-reliance in the face of great uncertainty.”

Building upon that characterization, this review presents Lean Logic as a hybrid of sorts—part encyclopedia, book, secular bible and survival guide—while defining its greatest strength as “the lightness with which it draws on knowledge from earlier periods of history, and from other cultures.”

The not-so-lean 736 page project was completed despite the death last year of its author, English ecologist, David Fleming, the inventor and advocate for the energy rationing scheme, Tradeable Energy Quotas.

]]> Lean Logic: A Dictionary For the Future and How To Survive It describes itself as “a community of essays about inventive, cooperative self-reliance in the face of great uncertainty.”

Building upon that characterization, this review presents Lean Logic as a hybrid of sorts—part encyclopedia, book, secular bible and survival guide—while defining its greatest strength as “the lightness with which it draws on knowledge from earlier periods of history, and from other cultures.”

The not-so-lean 736 page project was completed despite the death last year of its author, English ecologist, David Fleming, the inventor and advocate for the energy rationing scheme, Tradeable Energy Quotas.

(Via Maud Newton)

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To learn more about this visual urban storytelling and the idea of architecture fiction head over to this essay.

]]> Founded in 2010, in New Orleans, The Hypothetical Development Organization, creates fictional futures for vacant, abandoned buildings or “implausible futures for unpopular places.”

To learn more about this visual urban storytelling and the idea of architecture fiction head over to this essay.

“The moment that interests me most, I suppose, would be the random passerby who suddenly notices that building he or she has walked past a hundred times, just because there’s this sign on it, this arrestingly uncanny sign that tells a story that’s blatantly and intentionally absurd.”

(Via Book Bench)

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