“Access to data is important: it drives innovation and even social change. Governments that publish their data have to become more transparent. Humanitarian organizations that make their findings known could spark bigger projects and source innovative solutions from their communities. Scientific findings and raw information could be used to solve bigger problems than the result of a single experiment or trial could ever manage. Even the simple comparison of two or more facts can lead to new insight, and all of these things happen only when the walls around an institution become porous.”
»Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie gehen erwartungsfroh in ein Restaurant, und der Koch fragt Sie, was er Ihnen denn zubereiten soll, statt Ihnen eine faszinierende Speisekarte zu präsentieren – was würden Sie da antworten?«
“This all bears repeating now, at a time in which so many designers are engaged in addressing design for the public good — design that is sustainable, meaningful, socially relevant — because how can you achieve any of this if you don’t engage at some fundamentally human level, a level where memory and feeling are as valued as form and execution?”
Let’s start the day with the weirdest thing: Jonathan Meese’s “Marlene Dietrich in Dr. No’s Ludovico Clinic” at Watermill Center Southampton, Long Island, New York, July 2008 (via steveaoki)
