Observer_CollaborativeLiving_060512

Times_TrotterHouse

“We made these gray houses that you see, and they are square. It is a bad way to live, for there can be no power in a square.

Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles. The earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon does the same, and both are round. Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a person is a circle from childhood to childhood. Our teepees were round like the nests of birds and these were always set in a circle…..”

- Black Elk

CNC milling of a solid block of wood for Ockington country house site model currently in for planning. The Cutting Room provide an excellent service.

Tim Brown urges designers to think big

Tim Brown of IDEO.

Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.”