A few weeks ago, the Design & Emotion conference adjourned at the IIT in Chicago (http://www.id.iit.edu/de2010/). Without doubt, buildings can evoke emotions. Nevertheless, infrastructure and emotions are two terms commonly not strongly associated…
OK, here it goes again: another rebooking. This time it went fast a few minutes altogether.
Even though the news reported about one airline flying to Frankfurt tonight, the airline that holds my ticket rescheduled me to travel on Thursday, April…
Watching the news on TV and reading the reports in newspapers I can nod, and confirm: yes, air travel is a bit messed up right now. Originally scheduled to return from the US to Germany on Thursday last week, 15th of April, I received my flight cancellation…
This is a cross-reference to my post from a few minutes ago on the GenerativeComponents Forum Announcements that Hanif Kara and Mark Burry have been confirmed as SmartGeometry keynote speakers. Here is a shortcut to the SmartGeometry 2010 Conference registration…
Catching up on last year's skipped reading, I just came across a quote about "emergence" that told me I need to re-activate my blog:
Illustrating the concept of emergence, S. Rasmussen is quoted:
"[Hydrogen is] a colorless, odorless…
... there will be other events this year. I'd like to point to one of those events, not because I will participate in it, but because of all the other brilliant people who will be there. The event is the 1st International Symposium on Distributed Intelligence…
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With SmartGeometry events starting March 25, and the Dow Jones taking a little up-tick in the past few days, perhaps things are not looking as gloomy in spite…
Recently I came across an interesting report about another area of research: the southwestern script which was used about 2,500 years ago in the south-western part of Portugal (hence its name) and in adjacent parts of Spain. The fact aside that it is…
When considering the total ecological and economical impact of any endeavor there are currently two fundamental approaches:
(1) Economic input-output (EIO) based analysis: The economic input-output method is an entirely statistics-based approach…
Just a couple of days ago I came across a quote that I thought was... well, see for yourself:
"We didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones. Likewise, we must leave the oil age before we run out of oil." [Tom Demarco, Whistler, BC;…
WIth a few business trips and tax time thrown in, time passes rather quickly. So I went digging through hundreds of SmartGeometry 2008 Pictures and then realized that the surroundings were so interesting, they deserve to be shown, too --even if with…
In this month's National Geographic in the report about Bhutan 1), Brook Larmer describes King Jigme Singye Wangchuck's concept of "Gross National Happiness" (GNH), based on four principles: sustainable development, environmental protection, cultural…
This year's SmartGeometry events in Munich were quite an experience. The pre-training introduced Prof. Rob Woodbury's concept of design patterns which is available at http://www.designpatterns.ca/. Design patterns establish higher level conceptual gizmos…
In his book "A Short History of Progress" Ronald Wright 1) takes a look at how homo sapiens sapiens has become one of the most successful species on Earth. He writes "Nature let a few apes into the lab of evolution, switched on the lights…
For a few posts I want to pursue a thread of thoughts that for me personally started a long while ago. Lately I have been made or otherwise become aware of sources that express similar sentiments better than I could. (Nevertheless, in this introductory…
Perhaps I should not have closed out the first post, yet...
Thinking about it I decided to revoke the "Mueller's Blog" name of the blog and instead dub it [an unnamed Blog] for the time being. That's like some of the cultures who do not…
Writing a Blog does not come naturally (to me, anyway). Thus far in my life, I have not been successful in keeping a diary for any amount of time. I did maintain a family web site for a few years after which maintenance backlog and privacy concerns…