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Looking for techniques and ways to think about designing safer and more humane digital experiences in this world filled with transactions and privacy for sale? I'm running a workshop at the IA Conference in New Orleans in late march. Come join us and use design for good.

https://www.theiaconference.com/sessions/designing-safer-more-humane-digital-experiences/

#design #privacy #humanedesign #consentfultech #ethicaldesign

So I posted the application they enticed me to. Now I'm posting the application video they wanted.

I present to you: The Future of Housing 2 Minute Jackin' House Remix

#Scholarships #Scholarship #City #HumaneDesign #Sustainable #Design #CityPlanning #UrbanInnovation #HumaneTech

A point of trivia that I picked up at a time in my past as an activist is that the shopping mall of yesterday had its own roots in the town square and the apartment complex. While I do not propose hearsay to be true, I do promote that it is interesting; and it's in supporting the reasons held within the premise that I'll be writing this essay in favor of our heading toward a cyberpunk future.

In any other report, I would define even the most obvious of facets if it would be the core of the study, and I will do the same to cyberpunk here. Starting with punk: the classification of punk is a namespace where the personality forces of voluntary and involuntary collide. The punk did not give birth to themselves into a space that is like the way it was; and punk acknowledges that a person who chooses does the most beneficial thing to themselves in their influence. There would be some room for error in my definition; I think some economic abstractionist extremism slipped in there.

Cyberpunk is a literary simulation about punk under an infinite network. Not one time would it ever be proper to insist that a person stop networking in a cyberpunk narrative; their influence is as free as life can be until it requires other people's help. However, if every turn or crossroads you'll ever need is at the end of that reach you have with your fingertips, how can anyone or anything be more than a consumable and forgettable commodity? Now I've put the punk in the cyberpunk.

So, what would you tell me if I said to you that infinity is typically the problem with every idea; that the simplicity of gratification is the poison in the well that makes a metaphor for my grand and dashing need? If you told me that it's cool, because it looks like I'm right anyway, you would be subjectively correct. Infinity is nested into every applicable idea, at the junction of that practicality that requires the bold to take a risk and that surefire need that bring strangers to our doorstep. Choosing a goal and sticking to it means making sacrifices and trades, which in turn means making planning adjustments and adjustments to expectations depending on how much power is in your network.

…And that's why Cyberpunk 2077 has mega-towers!

Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the original Cyberpunk game and rule of cool definition, was a scholar of behavioral psychology when he developed it. These ideas relate to the means of keeping a population clear and calm on the developments they would choose. His dystopian world is completely irrational in the need to continue doing business, just like real life! Because the mega-buildings contain town squares on every fifty, seventy, or one hundred floors, the residents of the buildings collect in those areas where they engage in business and social topics. Businesses flourish in these spaces, and collaborators find opportunities to engage one another. I once called cyberpunk a consumerist hell, where everything you need is there at your fingertips if you can just find it in the pile of refusable crap; but mega-blocks are actually really cool.

The Buildings

The buildings would be stacked in this fashion: Business spaces on the entrance floor, with doors entering and exiting from the outside. This should create somewhere around eight business spaces. The internal doors would be magnetically locked, but welcome business access. Internally there are two elevators, and one of them has outside access. This elevator stops at the first four floors and the top three. There is a door leading into the building from that elevator, but it is magnetically sealed.

On the next three floors, I would install office space and one community kitchen on each floor. This office space serves a charitable purpose, to promote probono services in the arts and retainer fields. The kitchens would be intended to serve the same function, and so would need to be locked until they can be serviced if not cleaned, and need to be cleaned by those who use them.

Now on to residential.

The next four floors would hold studio apartments, with twelve per floor (in the wildest of guesses.) These studio apartments would enjoy a sky view with a glass front skyscraper wall. Keeping with the intent, these apartments would cost $50 per month. These would be perfect apartments for the disabled, elderly, or bootstrapping self-impoverished; and they have the price range to promote professional cleaners.

The next eight floors would hold two-bedroom apartments. These apartments would cater to up-and-coming families at a price of $100 per month. These would fit six to a floor, and each would enjoy glass walls for every bedroom. These would also be offered to businesses that rent spaces in the building as employee perks.

With the next four floors, I will acknowledge that 16 floors make a very small skyscraper by recommending that all apartment access expansion is to five-bedroom apartments. Two of these would fit on any given floor, with a price of $150 per month.

The next floor would be a residential park area, a beautiful and glass-housed indoor park for the residents.

The top six floors, unless the building were to be expanded further would be for low-income office space, in keeping with a focus on economic development. These would be beautiful offices, developed with an open floor plan on two tiers in mind. Each office would enjoy two floors of service space to meet their needs.

The 16 floors of the residential mega-tower should house an ideal total of 84 people per building. The business and philanthropic spaces should not be difficult to fill. The price tag, however, understandably would be.

The income would be as follows: $8,400 monthly per building's residential (with the above standard.) $300 monthly per restaurant. $600 monthly per office. With all paid areas filled, $12,600 per month. That could reasonably pay two people a living wage.

Fantasy is here creating an inspiring vision. However, we still haven't talked about the neighborhood.

The Neighborhood

My planning for this idea, which I honestly was thrilled to have an opportunity to share, supposes that it will be a 2-mile by 2-mile plan. That would be 3 city blocks by 3 city blocks, with 4 intersecting roadways and 9 planned buildings on every city block. The buildings would take space in a squared 12-building by 12-building grid.

The mega-buildings form the core of this plan, taking up 3 buildings on every planned city block. I also gave them 3 parking garages for unknown reasons, because I was only feeling playful. I have five classes of buildings in total, and I have shared two of them. I intend to share the third, fourth, and fifth now. The third is called a service mall. A service mall would function like a shopping mall, a denser outlet of retail services. However, like all three of these next three options, the service mall would also offer employee housing on a greater scale than the mega towers. The fourth class of these buildings would be a dedicated office building with employee housing, and the fifth would be a retail box - or large-scale retail space, with employee housing.

I'd like to stop and talk about the parking garages. I believe I can honestly say that my plan was built around balances, but I don't think I know of a loss in having these spaces. That's because I designed them to park more than the cars. With an outside elevator directly to the roof, there is room for park spaces even in high-security low-income housing. This actually means having a list of park options: dog parks, skate parks, sports parks, and children's parks - and with the need for diversity, comes the technological need. How does one create the soft ground on a steel and concrete structure?

I planned a small city, 12 miles by 6 miles. This city district would have plenty of room to dedicate buildings to the local government and have a dedicated bar crawl. The bar crawl would house a retirement village, which I think would be great for the elderly. Adjacent to the bar crawl would be health services and an extension of the retirement village. Adjacent to these would be the wealth and leisure zoning, where a business would be drawn by advertised discounts.

From here, I went on something of a wealth kick; I don't really expect much, but I think it's pretty. I developed this city plan when I just wanted to understand what a walkable city was. So if I were to separate the district properly, I would separate it into happiness, health, and wealth. The zone at the extreme distance from the bar crawl would be dedicated to school and government installation, and like in the wealth and leisure zoning, happiness and inspiration would be drawn by advertised discounts. In the middle, I would choose wealth and utility, attempting to draw finance and other services intended to cater to business ventures starting or established.

My neighborhood plan has a 2-mile area holding 48 of mega buildings for a company. This would make the plan profitable at 453,600 monthly for low-income housing.

This was a low-income housing plan.

Hello.

Now, will you be my champion?

#Scholarships #Scholarship #City #HumaneDesign

@Gargron

This is a solicitation. This is an attempt at bribery.

Eugene Rochko,

I understand you like sci-fi. What about superheroes? Do you like the Ghost in the Shell? I'm exploring a super hero comic series, and I decided to do an exploration of my worldbuilding it in a NaNoWriMo project. I would be in conflict with my promises if I told you it was good, but it does make me laugh while I write it. The link will be at the bottom.

I also did learn that you like cat pictures. I did not intentionally cater to that. This feels awkward.

But why am I bribing you? For reasons that are influential on why I'm looking for an award payment, I had to stop everything in my life and engage in therapy. I'm poor, and all the stress means I had to prioritize survival over practicing for a skilled trade. Now I've learned more about doing therapy than I have about any skilled trade.

However before I was financially pressured into dropping out of college, I was studying New Media and Informatics. Those thoughts on therapy can find another use here.

I have two discussion submissions to your Github I'd like to bring to your attention.

One of them involves the subject of Critical Race Theory, as I've accidentally stumbled into an answer being asked for by the greater public. I was trying to redesign the concept of genre, since I write down my thoughts as they come.

The other of them relates to fundraising on the servers, as I have developed a method from Korean gamedevs that allows the person paying money to be celebrated by the community.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/21533

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/21551

Is there something particular or special I should do to repost these at Github? Would you have advice on that?

About payment if the idea is valuable. Personally, I'd like to raise at least enough money to participate in the program I'm recommending. Would you be willing to profit share with me for a year for each valuable point at a rate of 7%?

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1feNvsAIlIDaBZcGbQi9XPmJZ-vJvHH68?usp=share_link

If you happen to be seeing this, be that from one of the hashtags or some other way, boost this message and share the link in a mention to @Gargron and support your local server today.

#mastodon #patreon #contentcreator #philosophy #design #webdesign #monetization #humanedesign #github #appdevelopment @subMedia @nathan

#Tech #Design #HumaneTechnology

Aside from being continuously inspired by #DieterRams, this take on his ten principles remains one of my favourite articles on #HumaneDesign. 💚

https://medium.com/swlh/dieter-rams-ten-principles-for-good-design-the-1st-amendment-4e73111a18e4

@bonndigital @Sascha Gegen humane Formen des Angebotes spricht ja nichts. Ich glaube ihr wisst, was für eine Art von Agentur gemeint ist.

Behandle andere, wie du selbst behandelt werden willst.

social value > individual value
sustainable value > temporary value
honesty is beautiful
talk to humans, not consumers
etc.

#humanedesign #humanetech

This looks really worth subscribing to (and I just did):

"I’m launching a new newsletter to explore technology that helps rather than hurts human understanding, and human understanding that helps us create better technology. It’s called Humane Ingenuity...t I’m also seeking to broaden the scope and tackle some bigger issues that I’ve been thinking about recently..."

#humanedesign #openweb

https://dancohen.org/2019/09/04/humane-ingenuity-my-new-newsletter/