Urban Complexity 1

080221_Urban Complexity 1

thrownness - born into a context, then you make your meaning.
mind is part of world: patterns - habits
memory = patterns over time

cosmology: does the world have a brain? (its memory = culture, tradition, evolution)
mind, spirit, universe, god
world structure / our structure
technology: map - discover world; language - "we live in language, it is invisible to us" (Heidegger)
= tool of action in world
= frame for looking at world

horizons of attention: table-room-house-neighbourhood-city places-national-worldwide
"global is no bigger than what you have around you" (Bruno Letour)

we act on a local scale, through a technological frame, with a technological tool
what we project on the world is what we understand global to be
dharavi: no boundaries to understand it, multiple scales, connections, relations, horizons