Thoughts on the universality and valency of ruination. With a comment about the toppling of statues of erstwhile heroes. A couple of months ago Alain Schnapp was talking with me about his new book, a universal history of ruins, an exploration of an archaeological sensibility that takes us back to antiquity [Link]. I have just…
posts – matters of design
Dryburgh
Project : So werd ich Todten-Kopff ein Englisch Antlitz seyn – [Link] Marta Pilarska (Edinburgh) has discovered a favorite place of mine – Dryburgh Abbey, Scottish borders, a landscaped ruin. Here are a couple of headstones, mid eighteenth century, converted by Marta into 3D models. The textures are very good, as is being able to…
et in Arcadia ego (3)
Project concept: et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Ravens’ Pike, Boonville, California. (Thanks to Rich Green for the loan of his remarkable Leica Monochrom)
learning theory
Magnus Hansen pointed me to this interesting summary of approaches to learning from Richard Millwood – [Link]. We were working on the introduction to our book Creativity in Complexity – a summary of 50 years of project-based experiential learning and design thinking at Stanford and Roskilde [Link].
metamorphoses – Silva
Concept: et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Hendy Woods, Anderson Valley, California. simul simul abdita texit ora frutexhidden at the same time bark covered their mouths Ovid Metamorphoses 8.718-9
et in Arcadia ego (2.2)
Project: Et in Arcadia ego – [Link] Ravens’ Pike, Boonville, California.