A weird machine is a computer science concept describing WHEN provocative lines of code make machines run outside the specs of their original designs AND PROGRAMMING, producing unexpected outputs and states.
THIS SAME CONCEPT can be applied TO HOW WE GO ABOUT creating CHANGe in complex social systems like cities, COMMUNITIES, ORGS, and the mechanics of civic life, thinks stephen walter (person).
“Beginning...
is the supreme capacity of a human being...
it is identical to freedom.
This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth;
it is indeed every person.
And though we must die,
we are not born in order to die
but in order to begin.”
-Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 1958 AD
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I’M A DESIGN ACTION RESERCHER WHO MAKES THINGS, STUDIES THEIR IMPACT, AND TELLS STORIES ABOUT A WORLD WHERE MORE PEOPLE CARE TO HELP DRAW ITS SHAPE.
I work mostly at intersections and the in-between — of life, of domains and fields, of institutions and habits. Here is a photo of an intersection I took that sits at a river crossing between 4 countries. I’m most at home when I’m lost.
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All footage I took over the years at my projects.
My work explores how things like play, games, media, technology, care, and harm reduction lead to civic and social systems that are more just, creative, and resilient.
Some Idea of Me
Zen master Baoche of Mt. Mayu was fanning himself.
A monk approached and said, "Master, the nature of wind is permanent and there is no place it does not reach. Why, then, do you fan yourself?"
"Although you understand that the nature of the wind is permanent," Baoche replied, "you do not understand the meaning of its reaching everywhere."
"What is the meaning of its reaching everywhere?" asked the monk again.
The master just kept fanning himself. The monk bowed deeply. Zen Master Dōgen
An image of a bird smoking cigarettes that represents the in-between soul of the dead uncle of a subject in the book Life Beside Itself, an ethnography about suicide that explores Inuit understandings of life, death, and care, by Lisa Stevenson, 2014 AD.
Shōbōgenzō Genjōkōn, 1233 AD
