In the same way that monocropping corn creates weaker, less resilient land, monocropping our streets with cars creates cities that aren’t as vibrant as they ought to be. We often don’t notice it, because we’ve trained ourselves to think of streets as “almost exclusively for cars”. But if you think of all the things you could do with streets, you realize how weird it is that we have, for decades now, used them mostly only for vehicles.
This reminds me of a piece that I wrote a few years ago about ‘rewilding education‘. Also, the suggestion of replacing roads had me thinking about the scene in Babakiueria where they propose replacing the freeway, a ‘baron wasteland’, with bushland. Of course, this is really a comical reference to the tendency to build on top of existing sacred sites.
Enjoyed the further dive into rewilding Clive. The idea of replacing the highway w/ a canal reminded me of Babakiueria where they propose replacing the freeway with bushland youtu.be/gYtz4hH2z7A?t=…
I’ve also written about rewilding education too readwriterespond.com/2015/06/rewild…
Welcome back to another month. I feel like it has had a bit of everything, catching up with family visiting from interstate, eldest daughter managing to go on her first school camp in three years, as well as being being thrust into health and safety protocols.
On the Work front, I feel like I have spent much of my time trying to get to the bottom of a range of new defects that have come with a recent upgrade. I am always intrigued how aspects of the application that have not been fixed or improved are impacted.
Personally, I binged quite a bit this month, including The 100, Stranger Things, Birdman, Moon Knight and The Gray Man. I also listened to Tom Tilley’s memoir Speaking in Tongues. In regards to music, I enjoyed listening to Sam Prekop and John McEntire’s modular album Sons Of.
Here then are some of the posts that have had me thinking:
Self-Assessing Creative Problem Solving
Wouter Groeneveld discusses his development of the Creative Programming Problem Solving Test (CPPST), a self-assessment test for programmers that measures more than just divergent thinking.
If You’re Not Paying for the Product, You Are… Possibly Just Consuming Goodwill for Free
Troy Hunt posits that sometimes we are simply consuming goodwill.
Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century
Jon Dron shares his thoughts on how to help the edtech community find its soul again.
Four Tet on His 155-Hour Spotify Playlist, the Coolest Thing on Streaming
Kieran Hebden discusses his epic Spotify playlist, an artefact for listeners to explore.
Rewilding Cities
Clive Thompson thinks about the idea of monocropping and the impact of rewilding beyond just nature.
Read Write Respond #078
So that was July for me, how about you? As always, hope you are safe and well.
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