Author: PGR
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Dispositionally or structurally retrograde
… typically as designers, and in broader culture, we’re looking for the right answer. As designers we’re still very solutionist in our thinking; just like righteous activism that pretends to have the right answer, dispositionally, this may be a mistake. The chemistry of this kind of solutionist approach produces its own problems. It is very fragile.…
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Kitsune/Anubis adventures
Or: what I did over the weekend; a brief but much-needed respite from the urban in a sun-drenched Hebden Bridge. Thanks to Justin and the Albion Terrace gang for hosting; photo credits to Jay “Dust Sister” Owens.
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A certain hermetically sealed quality
Like nightmares, dystopias have a certain hermetically sealed quality. By their nature, they are inescapable—a dystopia you can escape from is not a dystopia, it is the third hour of Love, Actually. The circumstances that create any brave, new world simultaneously cauterize its edges and destroy memories of the world before. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, as…
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A putative reality that does not (yet) exist
The goal of the process is to put people in circumstances whereby they’re invited and enabled to think and feel into the potential and implications of a putative reality that does not (yet) exist. They do not have to buy it hook, line and sinker; the point is more commonly to invite them to test…
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Big wheels keep on turnin’
Be like the waterwheel. Slow and steady is still powerful.