Another experiment in hylography – [Link] [Link] Craster, Northumberland UK
Author: Michael Shanks
hylography – drought
Out running with the dogs up Arastradero Preserve.
design and antiquarians – 4
This is a comment on the seminar series currently running between Stanford and Bard Graduate Center. [Link] [Link] This week – George Kubler’s extraordinary “Shape of time” from 1962, and the philosophy and archaeology of R.G.Collingwood [Link]. Both crossed (disciplinary) borders in looking at how we connect things and history. A key question (of pragmatography)…
design and antiquarians – schedule
Here’s the schedule for our ongoing conversation about design, design thinking and the antiquarian paradigm – history through things, collection, documentation, ethnography. [Link] – to more information I. Orientation Week 1, 23 September – What is antiquarianism? What is design? The importance of history in design. Antiquarianism as the model for the pre-disciplinary world. The…
Binchester – plaster
David Petts has just released a picture of one of the pieces of plaster found this season in the excavations of Binchester Roman town. [Link] [Link] – Lapidarium Septentrionale (in edit)
Elevate Ensemble – presence and absence
Wonderful performance from Elevate Ensemble last night at San Francisco Conservatory. Superbly introduced and conducted by Chad Goodman. Highlight for me – a joint work “Bethlehem” by composer Danny Clay and photographer/urban archaeologist Jeremy Blakeslee Ambience and presence – in the old Bethlehem shipyards in San Francisco. Or rather absence – got me thinking again…
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