| #1414580 in Books | 2013-01-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.50 x.60 x8.00l,2.30 | File Name: 8415391021 | 160 pages
||1 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Outdated projects you can look at Online|By Hamer|I bought this book helping that it would be interesting or helpful. It was not. To be clear, almost every image in this book is available free, online, from the websites of the designers. It is very unclear if there is a real methodological tack here or if there is any insight on the part of the author/editors but it is more or||Bracket is an annual publication concerned with the interconnections of architecture, the environment, and digital culture. The "Goes Soft" part of the title represents this year's theme, and the concept of "soft" is explained in an introductory essay and in
From soft politics, soft power and soft spaces to fluid territories, software and soft programming, Bracket 2 unpacks the use and role of responsive, indeterminate, flexible, and immaterial systems in design. In an era of declared crises--economic, ecological and climatic, among others--the notion of soft systems has gained increasing traction as a counterpoint to permanent, static and hard systems. Acknowledging fluid and indeterminate situations with complex feedback ...
