Thank you for sharing this, Dougald. It provides structure to a phenomenon I have long experienced but never theorised. It explains (among other things) my constant frustration at needing to formulate project goals in "upward" terms, and the difference between "upward" and "outer", especially when happily engaged in developing the "inner". Looking forward to what how new book develops tthings!
Of course you know Jesse! I was introduced to her during a residency in Peterborough in 2014/5 - A year or two before I was introduced to you! A small world and continued, glorious, summer riffing.
Dougald, thank you for your championing of the commons, and also your model of inward, upward and outward speech when it comes to projects such as the Green Backyard. I can see that this schema could help so many of us dreaming and working on behalf of the common good.
Very thoughtful...You can hardly go wrong with Illich...somethings are beyond language especially the commons- common spaces....North American Indigenous people knew the commons better than our European private/public distinctions...which may be why they did not tend to write things down and reduce beauty to words contracts descriptions which demean intrinsic value..
That's a great model, and how fabulous to see Access Space mentioned 😊
Thank you for sharing this, Dougald. It provides structure to a phenomenon I have long experienced but never theorised. It explains (among other things) my constant frustration at needing to formulate project goals in "upward" terms, and the difference between "upward" and "outer", especially when happily engaged in developing the "inner". Looking forward to what how new book develops tthings!
Of course you know Jesse! I was introduced to her during a residency in Peterborough in 2014/5 - A year or two before I was introduced to you! A small world and continued, glorious, summer riffing.
Dougald, thank you for your championing of the commons, and also your model of inward, upward and outward speech when it comes to projects such as the Green Backyard. I can see that this schema could help so many of us dreaming and working on behalf of the common good.
Very thoughtful...You can hardly go wrong with Illich...somethings are beyond language especially the commons- common spaces....North American Indigenous people knew the commons better than our European private/public distinctions...which may be why they did not tend to write things down and reduce beauty to words contracts descriptions which demean intrinsic value..