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Those at the DensityDesign department of Politecnico in Milan are successfully able to explain how we’ve been dealing with complex factors and data in history, and what’s changing now. They deal with topics like patterns, the big picture, and awareness.
Such factors should be in the designer’s mind at all time;
so, it’s really worth taking a look at the excellent presentation they prepared for TEDx (2009).
from here:
“Please note, this transmission is not optimized for easy listening, but for scientific research. […] Additionally, animal voices may be very faint. Amplifier settings are a compromise between picking up distant animals and not overdriving the system by nearby calving icebergs. So you might need to pump up the volume - but beware of sudden extremely loud events.”
see the visually-nice spectrogram here
A project where tables are designed by an algorythm, yet chosen by humans.
Are we finally starting to accept randomness in our lives?
Podcast with Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007.
Explaining why our usual ways of thinking at events in life are basically wrong.
Also, in 2007: “Globalization creates interlocking fragility, while reducing volatility and giving the appearance of stability. In other words it creates devastating Black Swans. We have never lived before under the threat of a global collapse.
Financial Institutions have been merging into a smaller number of very large banks. Almost all banks are interrelated. So the financial ecology is swelling into gigantic, incestuous, bureaucratic banks – when one fails, they all fall.” Spot on.
