alfgrimur · HackerTrans

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Honestly never met a studio that uses onshape, not sure how it handles all the nurbs, heavy polys and structural things native to rhino and other architecture CAD conventions like blocks and annotations. seems good to work through parts assemblies and collaborating with solidworks and fabricators. But most architecture studios seem to have their own janky rhino before schematic.

alfgrimur

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This is really cool! I work across the world w/ all kinds of other leading archs at early stage with limited timelines, in situations before everyone starts bimming it up. Seems promising, i will look into it for my next one.

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There’s a strong argument for paper computer, in the sense that we have evolved to think in space and with our body (Barbara Tversky’s work springs to mind). The cognitive load of parsing our thoughts, collaborating on ideas through digital interfaces is not insignificant, and changes the nature of the kind of combinatorial thinking required to externalise and socialise ideas, organise thoughts and structure work. I think AI created a huge opportunity for this kind of ambient association with computational power that over time can make the interface recede into the analogue rather than require us to engage with the digital.

I question the idea of pastoralism though, I would argue this is another kind of construct. Laurel Hatcher Ulrich’s ‘age of homespun’ talks about this in detail, and how handcraft revivals were an expression of fear or anxiety about the radical changes brought about by industrialisation, and became a sort of myth making device for the rejection of technological overlords.

In any case, Paper Computer charts neat reformulation of the personal computer into something more interesting. If all individual computing tasks become distributed back into real spaces, objects and physically manipulable media it becomes more of an interpersonal computer, and distributed computing power can be pushed to things that don’t ordinarily engage with computational tasks such as wind or plants or anything within the shared working environment.

alfgrimur

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I love to imagine this is all a cover and the Internet Archive is located in a remote cave in northern Sweden and consists of a series of endlessly self replicating flash drives powered by the sun.

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