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about this communication on Patterns
Communication
on Patterns
From: Franz Nahrada
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:08 PM
To: globalvillages
Hello Kevin,
Thanks for using the GlobalVillages Wiki!!
its good that this is becoming a repository of thoughts concerning
the development
of cities and villages in the information age which can help all
of us develop their thoughts.
Anyway, I have to work out some hints to drop stuff at the
right place to keep
things coherent.
The main guideline and structural element of the wiki is the
table of content.
http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/TableOfContents
The pages you put in the Wiki seem to me a bit misplaced.
This means not that the information is irrelevant, but that
they should be linked
differently.
Context is even more relevant than content here.
For example, I do not know why you link to the
"EmergentPhenomena" page from Patterns (APatternLanguageForGlobalVillages). It almost
seems like an ironic contradiction to me. I have
understood that the content of EmergentPhenomena is almost an
antithesis to the pattern concept.
That's fine with me and antithesis is always productive!!!
But it should go
to the right place. "Patterns" are "carefully crafted essays
about particular problems and a kind of solution which can be
intended and also graphically described."
http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/GlobalVillages/WhatIsAPattern
According to the TOC, to host such an antithesis, we
would need to open a
general
discussion space about the values of intended patterns and the driving
forces of development for cities and villages. So to conclude, I encourage
you and all of us to not just dump links and information there, but
make it relevant to the context of globalvillages.
Another example:
PeterBurgess, BurgessNetwork and LeeThorn could be linked
from here: GlobalVillages/TableOfContents
"- Some Networks - The people and organizations which
are doing things
important
for Global Villages".
Thank you all for working on common thoughtspaces and
keeping them useful!
Franz