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Out of the grid you will be nothing. Pachube is a neo-Constant Nieuwenhuys’ thinking (Situationist architect of the New Babylon). Read the long but very informative interview of Usman Haque Funny Farm film .

Along the way I became interested at times in what an “operating system” might mean in the context of architecture (paper, Hardspace, Softspace and the possibilities of open source architecture, 2002 (PDF), particularly an “open source” operating system (Urban Versioning System). I was also interested in developing tools for supposedly “non-technical” people to start building their own interactive systems or environments, hence the release of The “Low Tech Sensors & Actuators for Artists and Architects” pamphlet , co-authored with an old friend, Adam Somlai-Fischer, back in 2005.

I still remember the short exclamation of a colleague of mine at the GSD when I was talking about this networked structure that the world was building (also a concept that Manuel Castells

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has written about in his seminal book, the Network Society – 3 volumes!)… That colleague was working on parametric design, and was an absolute anti online social networking communities. He said something like “you don’t want it all connected.” And indeed what if the system breaks? With the Financial crisis spreading, virus and else… we see the importance of fuses. But again fuses do not refute the ubiquitous grid that could be there when you need it.download Hating Alison Ashley