The Functional Future
From whatever materials (leather, metal, wool, wood…), it’s just really satisfying to make something by hand: Challenging at times, empowering, seeking that ideal balance between perfection and beautifully imperfect, building skills, learning secrets, making something beautiful, lasting, and personal. Here are pictures of things I’ve made recently.
Making: Artisan Quality and Beauty Made by Hand Read More »
What happens with a guru in creating affordable physical technology for farming meets a guru in creating social connections for youth to teach them farming? I have been waiting to find out since I first saw the trailer for Reversing the Mississippi in June of 2015. Thanks to Ian Midgley, the film premiered on the
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I wanted to be a rain salesman, / carrying my satchel full of rain from door to door, / selling thunder, selling the way the air feels after a downpour
Build a fun balloon-powered boat for your pond or pool.
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“The world is wrong. You can’t put the past behind you. It’s buried in you; it’s turned your flesh into its own cupboard. Not everything remembered is useful but it all comes from the world to be stored in you…Did I hear what I think I heard? Did that just come out of my mouth,
The past is not behind you Read More »
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Social technologies are an integral part of solutions for a functional future. “No-one would deny that people are the most difficult factor in any design or assembly. It is not that people lack the will to cooperate; it is more often that they have not adapted those sensible legal and administrative, or social mechanisms which allow
Social Technology Overview Read More »
“Be positive” often simply means “be pleasantly delusional.”
Unpleasant Positive & Pleasant Negative Read More »
How do you choose the people you live with in your village?
Who is Invited to the Village? Read More »