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    Designing Science Fiction...
    The course will be loosely inspired by the movie (and the book) The Man who Fell to Earth in which David Bowie plays an extraterrestrial visitor...
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    Where forward thinking terrestrials share ideas and information about the state of the species, their planet and the universe, living the lives of science fiction. Introduction
    Featuring Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames, based on an idea by Kees Boeke.
    The Holy Evolution





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    The Tree of Intoxication
    "Gonds make liquor from the flowers of the Mahua tree. If you take small amounts, and mix it with good herbs, it is a medicine for many ailments. If you drink a little more, it is pleasant. But if you drink too much, your very form can change, and depending on your character, you may become a mouse or a tiger, a pig or pigeon."
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    Mind inhabits body,
    body inhabits space,
    space inhabits time,
    time inhabits memory,
    memory inhabits mind.
    Thu, Jan 7, 2010  Permanent link

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    We are all breaths
    that run from the source
    as rays from the Sun-
    making thought an entity.
    Tue, Jun 16, 2009  Permanent link

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    1974
    >The Arecibo radio telescope message:
    a ceremony for making the telescope
    aimed at distant M13 stellar cluster
    (25,000 light years away).
    >period of transition: 3 min.














    1999
    >Encounter 2001 - Evpatoria radio telescope message: commercial project.
    >period of transition: 3 hrs
















    2004-2014
    >Genesis in 1,000 native tongues on a robotic probe that
    Europe is despatching to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-
    Gerasimenko
    : Rosetta flagship mission.
    >period of transition: 10 yrs












    2008-2029
    >Bebo social networking website radio
    telescope message to the potential
    occupants of Gliese 581c (20 light
    years away): competition project.
    >period of transition: 20 yrs











    Languages, including digital codes, are symbolic (re)presentations, rising up from highly developed social structures.These social structures have externalized human memory, both out of the mind and out of the place of present. So this memory is a link between culture and brain. It makes one think if any creature is to receive and understand these messages will be of human species.
    So could it be in future, when humans have colonized space, if encounter with these messages out there in space, they will need tools and knowledge to understand human intelligence at our time, when the messages were sent?... If humans could be the receivers of these codes what is our memorabilia to the upcoming generations and future space archaeologists?

    3500 BC

    Cuneiform script



    1427-1392 BCE
    The Declaration of Purifications



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    'Refer to the discourse of music improviser and wine and ask around less the secret of time
    for one hasn’t solved and won't solve this puzzle through science.'

    Hafez
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    The Locavores appeared in San Francisco in 2005 and define themselves as ‘a group of culinary adventurers who eat foods produced in a radius of 100 miles (160 km) around their city’. By doing so they aim to reduce impact on the environment inherent to the transport of foodstuffs, while ensuring their traceability.

    Local River anticipates the growing influence of this group (the word ‘locavore’ made its first appearance in an American dictionary in 2007) by proposing a home storage unit for live freshwater fish combined with a mini vegetable patch. This DIY fish-farm-cum-kitchen-garden is based on the principle of aquaponics coupled with the exchange and interdependence of two living organisms - plants and fish.

    The plants extract nutrients from the nitrate-rich dejecta of the fish. In doing so they act as a natural filter that purifies the water and maintains a vital balance for the eco-system in which the fish live. The same technique is used on large-scale pioneer aquaponics/fish-farms, which raise tilapia (a food fish from the Far East) and lettuce planted in trays floating on the surface of ponds.

    Local River responds to everyday needs for fresh food that is 100% traceable. It bets on a return to favour of farm-raised freshwater fish (trout, eel, perch, carp, etc…), given the dwindling supplies of many saltwater species due to over-fishing. It also demonstrates the capacity of fish-farmers to deliver their stock live to a private consumer as a guarantee of optimum freshness - impossible in the case of saltwater fish that has been netted.

    Local River aims to replace the decorative ‘TV aquarium’ by an equally decorative but also functional ‘refrigerator-aquarium’. In this scenario, fish and greens cohabit for a short time in a home storage unit before being eaten by their keepers, the end-players in an exchange cycle within a controlled ecosystem.

    Materials: glass: blown & thermoformed, water pump, joints.
    Dimensions : Large : 64 x 29 x 39 inches, Small : 29 x 18 x 36 inches.

    “Local River”
    Mathieu Lehanneur
    with Anthony van den Bossche, spin doctor
    Sun, Sep 7, 2008  Permanent link

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    Teme: A new term in sociobiology by Susan Blackmore explaining 'a new kind of meme which spreads itself via technology-and invents ways to keep itself alive'.


    Considering teme to be a new meme, questions came up about the time it was branched out of meme and its independent procedure in human evolution.

    By looking at the timeline of technology, measuring geometry has played an outstanding role in mystifying the nature of life to human’s perception. Perhaps natural numbers , were invented by women counting to keep track of their menstrual cycles, belonged goods, population and in weaving. They were added, subtracted, multiplied, until the concept of ratio was perceived in spatial calculations.

    Constructing thick and safe walls, using bricks and stone-cuts as units, required much complex forms of calculation and numeral systems that were not perceived before that. For centuries constructing pyramids and measuring the circumference of circle by its radius brought new understanding to mathematical observations. The calculations inspired one of the deepest pleasures that the mind seeks: to be awed by existence, this time not only with fleshly pleasures, but by becoming intelligent enough to uncover nature’s precision and thus to conquer it. As irrational numbers appeared through the ratio of rational numbers, mind joined Ecosophia in conceiving proportionality of space and time that still to this day transcends precision.

    In short, I see as ratios were discovered that showed numbers that could/would not terminate (e.i. pi), teme distinguished itself from meme. Does the historical fact that the development of geometrical math happened around the same time when the myths about human’s creation were introduced to cultures, (starting 5th millennium BC in Egypt, Babylon and India), reveal anything about teme?
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    Units Form Nets - Activity Follows Network

    To begin with, designing form and determining function depend on emotional and intellectual motivation. In the realm of human affairs, as the selves complement each other, emotion and intellect condition the affairs. The type of imagination and memory activity that is from anxious and aggressive mind, weaves future with visions and reasons that endure what ails in illusion: an afterimage of meantime struggle. The form that is born out of excited lively memory anticipates in forthcoming changes.

    As the structure becomes physical, it situates itself in the intensity of matter and constant reactive responses of both natural and cultural worlds; The physical form finds its way into this multidimensional labyrinth by attracting codes and patterns and through exchanging energy impulses. So every impression of attraction, whether arising from human percept or the physical environment, should be able to modify their structure by realigning it to currents.

    In the procedure of cultural evolution, traumas, among other non-conscious replicators of information, act much like viruses. They have been actively taken part in our perceptual evolution and have caused a major slow-down in the evolution of mind. They can be categorized as trauma of birth, death and natural disasters. The traumatized perception is in constant search of communal power. The seekers and creators of these powers can cause major shocks in societies which in times can have devastating results, depending upon individuals' creativity and intellectual strength of the society.

    The ways that design deals with the life of the proposed form and/or function refers to the designer(s)'s cognitive memory. As memory, a major part of cultural process, replicates through variation, mutation, and competition, design education has a critical role in this process since it offers towering figures of knowledge and creativity. Majority of educators give priority to those ideas that can be best expressed through words and numbers, and not original imagination. In such interactions, originality, an inherent energy of all humans is overshadowed by communal power.


    Now, for the sake of progressive life, the cultural memory is compelling us to rethink the quality of life as part of Espace: Ecosophic Space. It takes individual awareness to recognize the difference between heroic wisdom and holistic wisdom and choose the original way!
    Sun, Aug 17, 2008  Permanent link

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