1. SOUNDTRACK OF THE DAY
2. PLACES TO KNOW
Pataliputra is the modern Patna, India
Tent works - site
the yurt tent’s structure!
More about the design of yurt
Unusual summer camping tents
If you were to design your own tent, what would you do? Why? How? Using what?
Chess - All in all, to design is like playing a game. You have a goal, a number of rules/constraints, external forces to fight against (in order to achieve your goal), a moment where you understand if you made it or not. Playing is a very appropriate metaphor for our design activities.
Johan Huizinga - “Homo Ludens”, - a lot of interesting explanations on how we think, behave and process things in our lives.
Computers beat humans in chess?
If you were to design your own tent, what would you do? Why? How? Using what?
Chess - All in all, to design is like playing a game. You have a goal, a number of rules/constraints, external forces to fight against (in order to achieve your goal), a moment where you understand if you made it or not. Playing is a very appropriate metaphor for our design activities.
Johan Huizinga - “Homo Ludens”, - a lot of interesting explanations on how we think, behave and process things in our lives.
Computers beat humans in chess?
From a design point of view, chess can be used as a conceptual tool to understand a lot of things related to people who played them. Some people played chess using the Lewis Chessmen.
Other people played chess with Deep Blue...
Alice was in a world of chess
Iepe Rubing with his chessboxing invention.
Some people play traditional chess.
Some prefer chess variations
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility”, Richard Dawkins
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position”, Marcel Duchamp
“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make”, David Hockney
A fable - the rice and chessboard problem...
Some people play traditional chess.
Some prefer chess variations
“Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility”, Richard Dawkins
“I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position”, Marcel Duchamp
“Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make”, David Hockney
A fable - the rice and chessboard problem...
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