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July 03, 2006
DE ♥ Sketching in Hardware
Mike very kindly thanks Design Engaged in his (first) wrapup of Sketching in Hardware, his outstanding contribution to the mini-conference circuit. It sounds like SIH came out really well, and engaged deeply with some issues Mike (and others) have been thinking about for some years.
Today’s Signal vs. Noise has a lovely quotation from Edward Hall that speaks to why small events like SiH and DE are so satisfying:
Everything is getting bigger: automobiles, airplanes, buildings, and cities. We are living in an age of giants. Yet everything that is known about man’s needs points in the other directions. It is like a disease: since everyone has it, we think nothing of it. The problem, of course, is that vulnerability increases with size and it therefore becomes necessary…to “manage” the environment, which makes for great rigidity and suppression of the individual as well.
Posted by Andrew at July 3, 2006 10:27 PM
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