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Speeds and rhythms and relations to time
Hi all, I’m writing from the edge of a river in Virginia (the Rivanna river) while doing one of the things that I enjoy most, which is kayaking, for, as it happens, I find myself thinking even here about life-centered design!
Because one of the things that strikes me most about this landscape is the relationship between movement and stillness. There are things drifting downstream along with me, and there are things clinging to the mud and banks and shore, working with and against that current. And this interplay seems so important, the fact that everything here, the leaves in the water, the fish somewhere below the surface, the kingfishers flitting overhead, the branches overhanging the river, everything has its own relation to a world ever-changing and on the move.
And it strikes me therefore that if we ever do have a thing that is truly life centered design, everything will turn on the way in which it can accommodate the real necessity of these different relations to time, change, and movement, the different speeds and rhythms that living things evolve in dynamic relation to a world ever becoming, both the beauty and the difficulty of such adaptation.
Just some thoughts to share from the water…
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