Gatos in Rio

Great article in Harvard Design Magazine: Resisting Representation: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janiero by Daniela Fabricius tells a story about maps and favellas, the "informal" settlements in Brazil. The discussion on "gatos," where the informal meets the formal, is fascinating.

Whew! A Major Milestone for the Book is Behind Us

I realize that my first post was a little formal. Maybe I'll be ridiculously informal from now on. But probably not.

The big news of the week is that we've completed the proof-reading and the index to the Liberating Voices: A Pattern Language for Communication Revolution book and have submitted both of them to MIT Press. That was the last deliverable from the author's side.

I'll have a lot more on this project as time goes by. For now I'll just say that the pattern language and the civic intelligence work are deeply connected: The pattern language is an expression of civic intelligence at the same time that civic intelligence is pattern — the first — in the Liberating Voices pattern language.