“The car has become “the vanguard of that precarious ideology of progress for a social group tied to the conspicuousness of consumption”. (V. Gregotti, 1978).”
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July 2012
“When a person looks at an immobile object, “fixes” it with his eyes, the eyeballs do not remain absolutely immobile; they make small involuntary movements. As a result the image of the object on the retina is constantly in motion, slowly drifting and jumping back to the point of maximum sensitivity. The image “marks time” in the vicinity of this point.”
—Gestalt psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A Frog hunts on land by vision… He has no fovea, or region of greatest acuity in vision, upon which he must center a part of the image… The frog does not seem to see or, at any rate, is not concerned with the detail of stationary parts of the world around him. He will starve to death surrounded by food if it is not moving. His choice of food is determined only by size and movement. He will leap to capture any object the size of an insect or worm, providing it moves like one. He can be fooled easily not only by a piece of dangled meat but by any moving small object… He does remember a moving thing provided it stays within his field of vision and he is not distracted.”
—Gestalt psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces — what Dr. Seuss calls “the waiting place.” Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference — the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.”
—Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
“Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.”
—Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
“Designing new experiences in new ways has a higher risk of failure, but also a higher risk of reward in greater impact and behavioral change.”
—The Past and Future of Experience Design - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
