http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/01/on-letting-them-do-it-themselves-activated-anarchy-vs-designed-intentions/ Sat, 18 May 2013 06:15:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/01/on-letting-them-do-it-themselves-activated-anarchy-vs-designed-intentions/comment-page-1/#comment-85571 Leon Barca Tue, 23 Nov 2010 12:42:24 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=834#comment-85571 It’s very informative posting, actualy i’m new in the domain matter, so this writing help me much increase my knowledge.

]]> http://blog.sfmoma.org/2009/01/on-letting-them-do-it-themselves-activated-anarchy-vs-designed-intentions/comment-page-1/#comment-6730 Rudolf Frieling Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:48:06 +0000 http://blog.sfmoma.org/?p=834#comment-6730 Stephanie, thanks for this great reflection. One comment on the notion of failure in the spirit of Samuel Beckett “you can only fail better the next time”: the Freecell project, like many others, is open and does not prescribe a specific function. What is specific is just how to assemble them, what is open though is to what end. So finding out about the visitors’ use of these cardboard pieces is an accomplishment in itself. We also learned a lot about the space and its overdetermined multi-purpose function. Setting these constraints aside at least temporarily has been a truly rewarding experiment which I would not consider a failure. The level of complexity is maybe key to the degree of participation. In our specific case, some of these cardboard pieces were probably asking too much. We should have had a series of objects that were easier to assemble. Rudolf

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