#christopher-alexander — Public Fediverse posts

Been reading #NatureOfOrder by #ChristopherAlexander, one of the foundational #solarpunk texts. I came up with a neat trick how to #design things with much more life.

Draw eyes on it. Anthropomorphize everything. Like #AdventureTime #specialSentientSandwich. Imagine it's all alive.

Another entry about architecture and worldbuilding, and the difference between generation vs. creation.

https://asupala.me/2026/02/20/entry-21-the-timeless-way-of-building/

#architecture #worldbuilding #christopheralexander #reading #apatternlanguage

Long read with a solid metaphor, that is a story in and of itself. "Landslide; a ghost story" https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/ by @kissane

Solidified my appreciation for fact based tools, historical timelines and #ChristopherAlexander all in one piece.

Also has interesting research links on how social media influences if we actually learn from what we read.

@jpnearl

Yes products and services have become very un-usable for an increasing proportion of the population.

Hidden controls, complex controls, hidden food packaging openings, food jar tops that need tools to lever open, the whole of IT (with a few exceptions), low audio quality phone calls, microscopic print on food packaging are just the ones that spring to mind.

Seems to be a de-couple between design and consumers.

#DesignFails #ConsumingIn2025 #APatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander

"Christopher Alexander and his group of architects, back in the ’70s, compiled the groundbreaking book A Pattern Language, which looks at the built environment from a city scale down to the décor on your house walls in terms of the human relations that structures and spaces elicit."

#Starhawk, 2016

https://www.ic.org/social-permaculture-what-is-it/

AFAIK this is where digital design pattern thinking comes from too (eg Dark Patterns).

#PatternLanguage #ChristopherAlexander #architecture #Psychogeography #DarkPatterns

#lispyGopherClimate #upload https://communitymedia.video/w/cRzNMeBMWGyV2URdZN9CtF
@ajroach42 <3

Sorry about the technical issues with anonradio. Here's the episode I recorded an hour ago.
#lisp #gopher #ErikSandewall #RichardGabriel #ChristopherAlexander #patternsOfDesign #designPatterns #architecture #informationScience #computerScience

#gopher gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-07-03-erik-sandewall-speech.txt #unix_surrealism

#music @xylander <3
https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/hectic-life-busy-busy-busy

#lispyGopherClimate Go Here Please: https://communitymedia.video/w/cRzNMeBMWGyV2URdZN9CtF
@[email protected] and retoot

#climate #climateCrisis #senryu #haiku by @kentpitman https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/112718092451838500

#live ! #music from @xylander
https://xylander.bandcamp.com/album/hectic-life-busy-busy-busy

Beautiful #ErikSandewall #unix_surrealism . also #gopher transcript of Sandewall's inaugural statue speech on the new information science. gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-07-03-erik-sandewall-speech.txt
Also note #ascii #art

#RichardGabriel #DesignPatterns #ChristopherAlexander

@Frohmann Die letzten guten Sachbücher waren #HaskellInDepth von #VitalyBragilevsky (Manning), #TractatusLogicoPhilosophicus (re-read) von #LudwigWittgenstein, #TheJoyOfAbstraction von @DrEugeniaCheng, #TheTimelessWayOfBuilding von #ChristopherAlexander und #TheArtOfGameDesign von #JesseSchell.

Das letzte gute Fiktionale ist leider schon eine kleine Ewigkeit her: #MasonAndDixon von #ThomasEPynchon.

Thanks to @jan for pointing me to #christopheralexander and his #books The Nature of Order. Amazing Christmas holiday read.

Undulating moss-covered ground, and a portion of weathered perimeter wall surrounding the #Zen garden, Ryōan-ji Temple, #Kyoto, #Japan.

#mosstodon #gardens #meditation #ChristopherAlexander #moss

A remarkable person has died. I think I first learned about him from @rd and explored A Pattern Language. A couple of years ago I finally decided to buy the beautiful (but expensive!) four volumes of The Nature of Order, which I have been reading, a few pages a day, every day. His insistence on finding the existing and potential centers and using them to enhance life is something I want to integrate into my own life and work.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/29/christopher-alexander-obituary

#christopheralexander