[p2p-research] possibilities of open source architecture

[Michel Bauwens]

Eric,

would the existence of Pachube change your comments, isn't that an
implementation of his ideas?

see
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/a-worldwide-infrastructure-for-interconnected-objects-and-environments/2009/02/09

please confirm, as I want to publish your comments on the blog,

Michel

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Eric Hunting <erichunting at gmail.com>wrote:

> Again, I must apologize for the long delay in response. Work has left me
> with a huge backlog in email I am slowly working through. My business
> partner and I have been facing increasing obstruction in the US book market
> due to recent systematic attempts at corruption and coercion in the
> distribution chains and among on-line merchant sites. In response we're
> declaring war on the whole textbook industry, forcing them to acknowledge
> the reality of the two value-tiers of textbooks they've created but, at a
> time when US students are struggling more than ever to afford college, have
> tried to bar American students access to by keeping the cheap books overseas
> and hassling their re-importers. And we also intend to shock the academic
> community out of its complacency and get it more active in this issue and
> the emerging open source textbook movement. We will do this by giving those
> 'international edition' textbooks away to students free. How? By helping the
> likes of Larry Flint put Hustler ads in theology textbooks. They might just
> kill us...
>
> Anyway, here is my attempt at a review and commentary on the article you
> noted. It was a very interesting piece, as was the other site you noted.
>
> ____________________________
>
> Hardspace, Softspace and the possibilities of open source architecture -
> Usman Haque (http://www.haque.co.uk/papers/hardsp-softsp-open-so-arch.PDF)
>
> This paper is an excellent example of a new sensibility emerging among
> contemporary designers. An emerging awareness of the evolution of
> civilization's artifacts from static products developed by specialist
> professionals to, as writer Bruce Sterling has dubbed them, networked and
> information-bearing 'Spimes' that exist in a perpetual evolutionary feedback
> loop and shift control over their development and evolution from
> professionals to end-users. In this discussion Usman presents us with a
> notion of architecture as evolving toward a conversational process between
> end-user and structure and offers a new role for the contemporary architect
> as systems/platform developer rather than creator of static permanent
> structures. The discussion culminates in the notion of the architectural
> operating system which mediates the technical and aesthetic aspects of
> structural design and the dynamic functional needs and personal tastes of
> the individual inhabitant. We are also presented with the exciting prospect
> of an open source architectural operating system, where the inner workings
> of a system of habitation remain open and evolvable in the larger community
> with participation ranging from the professional to the personal.
>
> What this article is lacking is a contemporary demonstration of its
> proposed principles. There is no flaw in this, of course, since this is such
> a very new area that pre-existing examples are scarce. His one reference
> goes back to that remarkable era of architectural experimentation among
> 1960s Modernists. But one is left with open questions and an anticipation of
> such a demonstration in the immediate future. Usman describes his principles
> in the abstract and we are left to ponder how they might be implemented in
> the real world of structural systems. Is his architectural operating system
> keyed to specific building technologies -lets say, specific modular
> component building systems- or is he referring to a codification to some
> language on a more abstract level independent of specific building
> technology? One looks forward to more articles or discussions by this
> author. He's definitely onto something very relevant to and paralleling this
> site's own discussions on peer-to-peer and adaptive architecture,
>
> Eric Hunting
> erichunting at gmail.com
>
>
>
>
> On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Michel Bauwens wrote:
>
>  Hi Eric,
>>
>> if this is still relevant, thanks for considering a commentary for our
>> blog:
>>
>> Paper by Usman Haque: Hardspace, Softspace and the possibilities of open
>> source architecture, 2002 (PDF)
>> URL = http://www.haque.co.uk/papers/hardsp-softsp-open-so-arch.PDF
>>
>> what an "operating system" might mean in the context of architecture,
>> particularly an "open source" operating system
>>
>>
>> [edit]
>> Example
>> Urban Versioning System, http://uvs.propositions.org.uk/
>>
>>
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