Meetings Along the Edge » Links & quotations http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com Design Anthropology & Experience Design Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:25:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Quote from Henry Ford http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2010/08/25/quote-from-henry-ford/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2010/08/25/quote-from-henry-ford/#comments Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:50:26 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=318 Great quote from Henry Ford on the first car he built:
“If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”

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“Those who have not learnt to die know not how to live” (Tibetan Book of the Dead)

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]]> http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/12/15/soy-on-fwa/feed/ 0 The most precious natural resource http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/03/15/the-most-precious-natural-resource/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/03/15/the-most-precious-natural-resource/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:55:10 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=108 Very few Heads of State aknowledge that children are the most precious natural resource of their country (Negroponte).

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Approcci progettuali per un design sostenibile:

  • Design per riduzione
  • Riciclo e riuso
  • Piegare e compattare
  • Flessibilità
  • Sostenibilità e tecnologia
  • Sostenibilità e materia
  • Energie alternative

da Paolo Tamborrini Design sostenibile (Electa)

]]> http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/03/15/design-e-sostenibilita/feed/ 0 Words from Matisse http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/14/words-from-matisse/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/14/words-from-matisse/#comments Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:49:16 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=104 I do not paint things, I paint only the differences between things.

]]> http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/14/words-from-matisse/feed/ 0 Jean-Luc Godard http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/08/jean-luc-godard/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/08/jean-luc-godard/#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 10:41:04 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=103 It’s not where you take things from-it’s where you take them to.

]]> http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/02/08/jean-luc-godard/feed/ 0 Does the water have to be transparent? http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/01/12/does-the-water-have-to-be-transparent/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/01/12/does-the-water-have-to-be-transparent/#comments Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:46:34 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=102 Equa System

]]> http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2009/01/12/does-the-water-have-to-be-transparent/feed/ 0 A dialogue between Marco Polo and the Kublai Khan http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2008/12/21/a-dialogue-between-marco-polo-and-the-kublai-khan/ http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/2008/12/21/a-dialogue-between-marco-polo-and-the-kublai-khan/#comments Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:43:21 +0000 admin http://www.meetingsalongtheedge.com/?p=100 Forse l’impero, penso Kublai, non è altro che uno zodiaco di fantasmi della mente.
“Il giorno in cui conoscerò tutti gli emblemi” chiese a Marco “riuscirò a possedere il mio impero, finalmente?”
E il veneziano: “Sire, non lo credere: quel giorno sarai tu stesso emblema tra gli emblemi.”

Da Le città invisibili di Calvino.

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