ubiquitous quality factor number 13 •
everyday design hero:
improvisation . . .

“the aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity & familiarity.”
philosopher ludwig wittgenstein

01) lightness . . .

02) enhancing civility . . .

03) beautility . . .

04) robust, resilient & repairable . . .

05) embracing aspects of homo ludens . . .

06) anthropomorphic . . .

07) adaptable | transformable . . .

08) intuitive | self-explanatory . . .

09) accessible to 90% of the world . . .

10) a variation on a theme . . .

11) ephemeral . . .

12) wabi-sabi (grows better with time &/or use) . . .

13) improvisation . . .

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like the fella says, in italy for 30 years under the borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced michelangelo, leonardo da vinci, and the renaissance. in switzerland they had brotherly love – they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce ? the cuckoo clock . . .

1949 | improvisation by orson welles as harry lime in the film, the third man, which was not in the script &/or the book by the same name written by graham greene.

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design should make room for spontaneity and discovery, blending
the pleasure and pain of life into something wonderful . . .

william eugene stumpf | * march 1, 1936 † august 30, 2006 |
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improvisation is really becoming one with nature, becoming one with our real self.

abdullah ibrahim | * october, 9 1934 † june 15, 2026 | 

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the architectural review:
rest in public as resistance, by marie-louise richards
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99% invisible: noodling workaround: cheap & clever
hack helps make roads safer for cyclists . . .
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suggested reading &/or the dialects of design continued, improvisation: