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Project: Polytopia
Project: Polytopia
what takes an idea from inception to actualization & execution, the visualization & realization of that initial invisible spark?
what keeps it in the realm of thought, of talk? what keeps it from reaching through to the visible and starting a fire? is is that we don't feel "ready"? don't feel we have the resources necessary to begin?
Hope Floats
by notthisbody
"While idealistic architects, futurists, sociologists, philosophers - are in an endless search for creating the perfect island out of society, in a context totally foreign and segmented, there is a group of 15 people actually doing it. But its not just the creation of their world - but rather the connections they are gonna establish by sailing with the world that seems disconnected in a communication society. They are building a house on a boat - and its more than a house - its a multi purpose space - that lets you live on it, move with it, float with it and do service! Its a purposeful house. What an attempt...."
the floating doctors have never been "ready" - they've scratched and struggled, begged, borrowed (but not stolen), slogged through the dirty work, the tedious work, the shit work & done the needful. and they still struggling. but it is a necessary one.
the momentum gathers around them gains something of the autopoietic. their house is already floating, though they're not yet on the ocean.
we have our invisible spark on SpaceCollective in the form of the Polytopia Project, but we need to start its active realization. SpaceCollective is a think-tank; think-tanks have output. what is ours? is it stuck on the level of talk? of thought? we must not watch & wait & comment but act. but we are not yet living under the same house. we are semi-connected nodes, surfacing on SC's recent posts page, sometimes on twitter or twine or friendfeed & then submerging again.
we're shouting up here, across the void, how many are listening?
there are few of us, we have some architectural plans, have started digging the foundation; open source of course. but we need help. to be explicit:
who wants to start building our purposeful house?
what keeps it in the realm of thought, of talk? what keeps it from reaching through to the visible and starting a fire? is is that we don't feel "ready"? don't feel we have the resources necessary to begin?
Hope Floats
by notthisbody
"While idealistic architects, futurists, sociologists, philosophers - are in an endless search for creating the perfect island out of society, in a context totally foreign and segmented, there is a group of 15 people actually doing it. But its not just the creation of their world - but rather the connections they are gonna establish by sailing with the world that seems disconnected in a communication society. They are building a house on a boat - and its more than a house - its a multi purpose space - that lets you live on it, move with it, float with it and do service! Its a purposeful house. What an attempt...."
the floating doctors have never been "ready" - they've scratched and struggled, begged, borrowed (but not stolen), slogged through the dirty work, the tedious work, the shit work & done the needful. and they still struggling. but it is a necessary one.
the momentum gathers around them gains something of the autopoietic. their house is already floating, though they're not yet on the ocean.
we have our invisible spark on SpaceCollective in the form of the Polytopia Project, but we need to start its active realization. SpaceCollective is a think-tank; think-tanks have output. what is ours? is it stuck on the level of talk? of thought? we must not watch & wait & comment but act. but we are not yet living under the same house. we are semi-connected nodes, surfacing on SC's recent posts page, sometimes on twitter or twine or friendfeed & then submerging again.
we're shouting up here, across the void, how many are listening?
there are few of us, we have some architectural plans, have started digging the foundation; open source of course. but we need help. to be explicit:
who wants to start building our purposeful house?
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Categories: architecture, video, polytopia, floating doctors, actualization, action
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