Human scale is a concept proposed by Oliver Sacks, a neurologist and writer, as a key idea for the future. It means we must preserve the human dimension in everything we do, from architecture to technology, from culture to nature. It also means that we have to respect our human needs and values and avoid becoming anonymous or alienated in a world that is too big, fast, or complex. #HumanScale #OliverSacks #FutureVision https://www.themarginalian.org/2023/08/05/oliver-sacks-human-scale/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

Stumbled upon this post I wrote a few years ago (2020) about "small is beautiful" applied to architecture and web system development. Still love those ideas and concepts, will probably reuse this approach and my `tulip` #lua framework for other projects.

#fedora #sourcehut #postgresql #webdev #minimal #humanscale

https://mna.dev/posts/small-is-beautiful.html

Dezeen : Humanscale launches inclusive task chair for the home and office https://www.dezeen.com/2023/06/20/humanscale-path-office-task-chair/ #Officefurniture #officechairs #Promotions #Humanscale #Furniture #Design #Chairs #all

> Not only did he admire the painters of the early Renaissance, he applied serious analysis of his own to their techniques, observing about the Siennese and Florentine Primitives: “Their insistence on making monuments smaller than men is a result not of an ignorance of the laws of perspective but of a persistence in giving importance to the men and saints whom they depict.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308971696_Albert_Camus_Engages_the_visual_Arts
#Camus #AlbertCamus on #HumanScale #SacredScale #FlorentinePrimitives #RenaissanceArt #Sienneese

> Not only did he admire the painters of the early Renaissance, he applied serious analysis of his own to their techniques, observing about the Siennese and Florentine Primitives: “Their insistence on making monuments smaller than men is a result not of an ignorance of the laws of perspective but of a persistence in giving importance to the men and saints whom they depict.”
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308971696_Albert_Camus_Engages_the_visual_Arts
#Camus #AlbertCamus on #HumanScale #SacredScale #FlorentinePrimitives #RenaissanceArt #Sienneese

8. BEAUTY
A place of high-quality ‘Baukultur’ is beautiful.

High-quality Baukultur* takes into account the sensory perception and understanding of the relationship between objects, spaces and people, increasing people’s life satisfaction and quality of life.

It emphasises the need for positive aesthetic appreciation and a fulfilling relationship between people and the place.

- From ‘Eight criteria for a high-quality Baukultur, Davos Baukultur Quality System’:
https://baukultur--production--storage.s3.amazonaws.com/baukultur/2022-06-17-174034--dbqs-en.pdf
*The expression baukultur embodies the cultural value of a high-quality, socially integrated and sustainable built environment. Baukultur (pronounced baw-cool-tor) is both the ethos of creating an environment we want to live in, and the processes involved in its creation.

#Baukultur #Sustainable #Design #Beauty #Harmonious #HumanScale #BuiltEnvironment #Culture #Solarpunk

We must prioritize #disability access and #pedestrian and human-powered #traffic over vehicular #convenience. We must prioritize human #comfort over corporate #avarice.

We must advance public #policy which incentivizes #humanscale living over vehicle miles travelled. We must rebuild our city and town centers to increase density of settlement.

The technologies we use to generate power are the last things we should be thinking about. There is no such thing as "#renewable" energy generation.

> The bird made it possible to make offerings without straining a family’s budget. In his 2010 paper in American Antiquity, Dueppen writes “chickens provided a means to maintain the rich spiritual life within a consciously reinvented egalitarian society without creating wealth differentials.” In other words, you didn’t need to be a rich cattle baron to maintain your connection with the gods.
#Chickens #ChickenEquality #HumanScale #MiniScale #Egalitarianism

Inspired by #Evolution on a #PaleBlueDot with #Unschooling in #Community #Together building #TinyHouses amongst #HumanScale infrastructure #NotJustBikes and other #MassTransit as part of a #SharingEconomy promoting #Sustainable living in a #CapitalistDeathSpiral

Plus #Dogs #Cats #Birds #Bugs #Herbs #Music and all kinds of #Artists and #Writers
especially #SciFi #Fantasy involving #TimeTravel

Did that cover everything?
Not a chance.
That re #introduction barely scratches the surface

Time for some hope! Strong Towns just put out a video with concrete steps and information on how you can be part of the #urbanism solution! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP5UCwMTjFk #walkability #StrongTowns #HumanScale

The Selection Committee of Sustainable Cities And Human Settlements Awards decided to give #architect and #urbanplanning master #JanGehl the Global Human Settlements Outstanding Contribution Award 2022.

Jan Gehls contribution to urban planning is absolutely incredible.

If you are not familiar with is work i suggest you check out "Life Between Buildings"

https://gfhsforum.org/GFHS---2022
#danisharchitecture #humanscale #citiesforpeople

#Introduction #Introductions
I make music. I run. I don't wear jeans.

Hopes
#BePassionateButBeKind #LessMeMeMe #DontJumpToConclusions

Goals
#BeInTheNow #BeBetter #MakeMusic

Why I'm Here
#ToLearn #ToStayUpdated #ToExpand #ToMuse

Dreams for the Future
#HumanScale #CittaSlow #IntelligenceAndHumility #Equality

What I Love
#Sincerity #Kindness #Humour #Openmindedness #WrySelfDeprecation #ACertainKindOfCurmudgeonry

Brings Me to Life
#Absurdity #Art #Templates #Ideas #NewProjects

"Especially relevant to present-day problems is the.. contention that industrial organisation, by its very nature, gives rise to oligarchy or dictatorship.. tending to destroy democracy.. and to impose upon the individual pressures and restraints that prevent his full life as a human being.. leading to trivial pursuits and passivity.. collective #rage and #hysteria."
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59284
#BertrandRussel #IndustrialCivilization #HumanScale #HumanPace #workrhythm #activityrhythm

> ... the central practical problem of our society is how to handle bigness—how to avoid waste and fragmentation and dehumanization without centralization, which, by definition (we have discovered rather later than Goodman), increases these things even while attempts to remedy them.
- https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/paul-goodman-outsider-looking-in.html
#PaulGoodman #bureaucracy #scale #DavidGraeber #UtoipaOfRules #人間の尺度 #humanscale

We need a #humanscale #socialnetwork, like #fediverse, not a soul crushing, algorithmically optimized #clickbait, #monopoly chasing concoction.

#africa
#contentmoderation
#facebook
#mentalhealth

https://time.com/6147458/facebook-africa-content-moderation-employee-treatment/