Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #136

The very best

What if you would design for excess capacity? What if you would design for improvisation? What if you would design for imagination? By Ana Andjelic.

About the distorted experience of time through the COVID-19 pandemic: an atemporal liminal passage between two great historic eras. By Venkatesh Rao in new NOEMA magazine.

About crowdsourcing the unimaginable and unthinkable ideas. By Jane McGonigal

About the undergirding of self-knowledge by space, location, scale, and time: how a pandemic transforms the familiar into the unfamiliar. By Ai WeiWei.

About communities as the next frontier in creation and learning. By John Hagel

Being able to roll with the punches.

David Lynch Theater Presents: FIRE (POZAR) Written, Drawn and Directed by David Lynch Animated by Noriko Miyakawa Music by Marek Zebrowski ©2015

The world doesn’t need more loud guys full of too many words, with buff arms, in tight shirts, and huge egos to match. The world needs quiet people. Why? I’ve always been intrigued by Keanu. He is a…

This article is part of an upcoming book titled “Ecosystems Inc. — Understanding, harnessing and developing organizational ecosystems” that will be published in July 2020 by Thinkers 50

Claude Parent’s (1923-2016) injunction to architects called them to “open the imaginary,” “dislodge the immobile,” “surf on the surface,” and “limit without closing.” In a life dedicated to provoking new alternatives to how life might be lived through drawing, Parent transformed the direction of architecture and influenced many of the most radical contemporary practitioners, from Thom Mayne to Jean Nouvel, to Zaha Hadid. 

On top of the wave: that's where Claude Parent wants to be

De Bono’s popular theory is textbook pseudoscience: unsound, untested and derivative of real (unacknowledged) research

Data and Society

Even when the impacts of the apocalypse are overwhelmingly visible, people will still try to deny the reality.

Zeitgeist

The art critic Dave Hickey, praising his adopted hometown, wrote that “America is a very poor lens through which to view Las Vegas, while Las Vegas is a wonderful lens through which to view America. What is hidden elsewhere exists here in quotidian visibility.” That description came to mind after a recent conversation about whether Las Vegas could possibly bounce back from a crisis that seems to specifically threaten indoor environments—although this week’s photos of Floridians playing blackjack behind plexiglass dividers suggest that the city will bounce back whether it should or not. For now, though, the pandemic presents an existential crisis for Las Vegas, probably the most architecturally important American city of the past half century, having pioneered the inversion of indoors and outdoors that Rem Koolhaas describes in

Innovation

For years, the film festival circuit has been an opportunity for immersive artists to experiment and explore the storytelling potential of emerging technology devices, haptic devices, bone conduction…

Barbara Chai is formerly of the Wall Street Journal and interviewed me today. I packaged up the video (it's in raw form) and thought to share it here as Barb...

When documentary and technology converge. By MIT Open Documentary Lab & IDFA DocLab

Future of work

In 2014, confronted by the fallout of a global recession, Ziauddin Sardar borrowed the idea of the postnormal from Silvio Funtowicz and Jerome Ravetz. Those researchers wanted to make a delineation…

Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh is modifying his take on the inventive management structure.

As shelter-in-place rules relax, reopening businesses will frequently ask workers to take coronavirus tests, disclose symptoms, don masks, wear dongles and work under the watchful eye of sensors monitoring their proximity to colleagues.

By Marc Rebillet.

Internet Culture

The CX Report gathers trends related to how business now happens in the computational era. A must see 1 hour+ state of the union on Customer Experience by John Maeda

Teenagers on the platform have inherited the legacy of Weird Twitter and Weird Facebook, posturing as multinational corporations and posting about beans and frogs.

FinTech

The digital dollar is a big deal. It's either a new space race (or a new Cold War).

The U.S. financial system could be on the cusp of calamity. This time, we might not be able to save it.

AI, Robots, Algorythms

An interview with Peter W. Singer, the co-author of Burn-In: A Novel of the Real Robot Revolution, a work of researched speculative fiction eagerly anticipated by U.S. military leaders.

While humans hunker below, aerial robots are taking over as cops, street cleaners, medical assistants, delivery workers and soon — friends?

Nikol Kirova is an architectural graduate from the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Her project ‘Synapse’ looks at the future of urban mobility.

The API gives firms access to a text generation AI for use in coding and dating entry

Digital Ethics

A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention.

Post Capitalism

Professor Kiel Moe advocates for a more literal architecture, which can provide a clearer picture of the terrestrial web of life that supports building.

The jobs report released Friday showed America’s unemployment rate rising to its highest level since the Great Depression — but the stock market is taking it all in stride. Here’s why the S&P 500 doesn’t mind that the labor market is collapsing.

Weird (Cyber)Space

Coronagrifting: A Design Phenomenon We now interrupt our regularly scheduled content to bring you a critical essay on the design world. I promise you that this will also be funny. This morning, the...

Part of the Great Weirding essay collection

David Lynch Theater Presents: RABBITS 1 > from 2015 but now available as a free stream

The Yak Collective’s second report, The New Old Home, offers 22 perspectives built around Pamela Hobart’s central thesis: as work…

Online events and meetings done well

This morning I attended a technology conference. That in and of itself is not interesting, I’ve attended hundreds of those. And while it was a virtual one, that’s also not the interesting angle here…

Amazing pilot episode for a new series I started 8 weeks ago, called Gerd.Live by Gerd Leonhard. Very well produced with minimal means.

Mykel Dixon is onto something. My inspiration. For me this feels as "Pirate TV". Again without the big production companies, from your bedroom, sort of.

Art related

What’s the red thread between the 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig, the extras’ rebellion at the Cinecittà Studios in the ’50s, a Black Friday event, and social ­distancing measures? In his latest cycle of works, the German artist and filmmaker examines the power structures in group dynamics, social behavior, surveillance and mass manipulation.

There’s little doubt that the best way to pick up and learn a new language is through immersion. Removed from the creature comforts of a native tongue and surrounded by unfamiliar words, phonemes…

David Lynch Theater Presents: What Is David Working on Today?

In this multimedia piece, Andri Snær Magnason and Anní Ólafsdóttir take a journey with dancers, musicians, and philosophers across Iceland during the lockdown and explore the question: What is the meaning of the great stop, the apausalypse?

Friends from Academy

What if Star wars "A new Hope" was made by Pablo Picasso... An improved neural style transfer algorithm to deliver a more stable result for Video based on La Muse from Pablo Picasso. By co-student Frank Poncelet

Aesthetics

Self-taught, French dancer Wilfried Ebongue and Luxembourg-born multidisciplinary artist Jill Bettendorff fell in love in the German cultural mecca of Berlin...

Music/Sound

Sanctuaries of Silence is an immersive listening journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America. A virtual reality film by Emergence Magazine staff filmmakers Adam Loften and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee.

A playlist featuring Car Seat Headrest, Lucinda Williams, Khruangbin, and others

For real nerds

From An Engineer's Guide to Happiness https://anengineersguide.com/

Nerd definition of home