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Today I presented a “brown bag” talk tentatively entitled: “Christopher Alexander: second renaissance visionary”.
In it, I talked about how Alexander is a pioneering second renaissance (aka integral, metamodern etc) thinker and practitioner. Specifically in:
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(Re) Introducing value and beauty as real - specifically in a domain of architecture and aesthetics dominated by modern/post-modern relativism
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Providing a rigorous evidencing for this claim — one that includes and use reason
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Whilst … transcending reason and including the transrational, mystical element (see luminous ground etc)
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Providing practical techniques for applying this in building - pattern language, nature of order etc
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First published in the Life Itself newsletter on 12 July 2024. Read the original.
