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• Title: These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian
• Date:
  • April 14th, 2021
• I have a lot of notes on what to talk about, what else we'll be doing, in the February 10th, 2021 daily notes from past emails and conversations with Byron Anway
• Outline
  • Hello
    • Thanks for the introduction.
    • I'm Kristian Bjornard, and this is my basement in Baltimore, MD.
    • Quick "this is me?"
      • Already being introduced, what else do I have to say?
      • What I'm working on right now?
  • These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian
    • This talk is called "These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian."
    • What do I mean by that?
      • What do I mean by a Gesture?
      • What do I mean by Utopian?
        • The Futures Cone
      • Briefly get into Pragmatic Utopianism?
    • I am calling this talk "These Gestures Are Undoubtedly Utopian.” My ideas of utopia are yes, perhaps slightly impossible or impractical … However, I choose to believe that while certain things SEEM impossible in the present, it merely takes some minor redirecting of our present to end up at a drastically different, improved future.
  • I don't know when exactly this way of working and thinking started making its way into my practices... But a good visual place to start was back in 2003, when I was completing my final work in my undergraduate studies.
  • SIP
    • Kalamazoo?
      • You still have to do a SIP!?!?
    • Senior Individualized Project
    • This work was called "Cellular Distortions"
    • What about this is utopian?
  • SundaysEnergy
    • Making BioDiesel
    • Solar and Wind offset websites
      • Drupal!
        • Vernacular!
        • Open Source!
    • The start of the sustainabilitist as well as the libre designer
    • Posters
      • So UnCool
      • Think Green
      • The Other Side
    • Green Roof Book?
      • First time doing Sustainable and Open Source things on purpose for a client and really researching the options for convincing the others that we need to do it! That there are sustainability improvements!?
  • GradSchool
    • a couple of experiments from early on?
      • Urban forest Project?
      • Posters of "how to think sustainably"
      • Systems
        • Systems in visual design: conditional design? rules-based design? what are the systems for creating visuals in a meaningful way
        • The Greenest Green?
        • a sustainabilitist landscape
    • The Sustainabilitist Manifesto
      • This is related to the question of How Do We Define Sustainability?
      • The Sustainabilitist Manifesto is one such way I suppose, trying to provide a simple modular framework for understanding and forward action
      • How did all the other things I worked on lead me to this?
        • How should this have just been my only piece
          • Reduce / Less Is More / Good Design Is as Little Design as Possible
      • The principles here, they were curated from all the ideas I kept seeing repeated.
        • how to surface these things, show where they come from, but give you a simpler, clearer, more direct way to access the ideas – the goal isn't neo-liberal time saving, but more of a cognitive load issue. Here are the important things, now you can go about using them instead of having to read through all of these yourselves ...
          • Albert Einstein? Any other examples of the cognitive load savings by minimizing choices? minimizing work?
      • This piece brought together all the ideas I was working with.
    • Design-A-Days?
      • Vernacular systems!?
    • Green Acres
      • and how it led to Ecovention Europe
    • Farming w/ Wife?
    • F/LOSD
      • the Vernacular Systems connection again!?
    • Spontaneous Lamps
    • Yard projects?
      • A Permaculture Orchard
    • Anything else?
    • The End!