Digital Global Polis: Random Notes and Thoughts
Notes from the Book: The Digital Global Polis
The language of the Global Polis
Urban Planning discussions
Centralization vs. de-centralization
Top-down vs. Bottom-up
Collectivism vs. the capitalist city
Today we find out that city planning is far more philosophically than historians are willing to admit
- Excourse: Cultural City
à Self-help based urbanism
à Planning spontaneity in the modern metropolis
The industrialized metropolis, Neuraths theorized, suffered form the fact that it thrives on the de-humanization of the worker.
DEMOCRATIZE AND DECENTRALIZE KNOWLEDGE IN THE CITY
à Sprung von der Polis zu modernen Ontologien und Ontologie-visualisierung unter dem Aspekt des Geschichtenerzählens.
Stadtplanung involves philosophical aspects and they are far more complicated than expected in his eyes.
Neurath believes in sel-help urbanism or participatory urban planning.
This involves planning spontaneity in the modern metropolis. Ordererd disorder.
“How can you re-concile modernity (Modernism) and community (informal planning)? ”
à Improve the ability of Vienna to communicate with its citizens.
à New approach to knowledge management, visual communication and information design.
“How can you re-concile modernity (Modernism) and community (informal planning)? ”= Organized self-help
Otto Neuraths Understanding of Democracy: Being able to understand complex information in the coffee break.
2D graphics with concrete guidelines. Isotype and Gerd Arndtz.
Neurath was acutely aware of the way in which habit conditioned we absorb knowledge.
More Random notes:
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Looking at my idea of a Digital Global Polis means looking at the context and how things interact.
Swarms like birds who fly together, Traffic systems/ the mind/ How we interact with cities who interact like the mind of networks,
Bootstrap Theorie (Quantenphysik), The inner life of a cell, trying to visualize the life of a cell.
http://lockerz.com/u/20851366/decalz/9044832/the_inner_life_of_a_cell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id2rZS59xSE
Niklas Luhmann and finally Manuel Limas idea of the interconnectedness of things. Puh, now all this is mentioned lets go 2000 years back in time:
If the community is succesfull than the individual will work.
Everything you disturb can have consequences…but in the end when something went wrong you can not say where it came from.
Communication = Exchange of information.
Cognition = processing of information in the brain.”