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J’ai crée cette petite liste pour les gens que je connais et que j’apprécie beaucoup.
C’est une série remplie de trucs et de machins qui, en théorie, devraient vous inspirer. Parfois bilingue, parfois en anglais seulement.
Vous pouvez vous désabonner à tout moment, il suffit de répondre à ce courriel en me disant “non merci”.

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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand (1994)
amazon link

The book explains how architecture awards judge the building on how it looks before the people move in, forgetting the importance of that building's ability to adapt and grow with the needs of the people inside.

« This book is the best book about software architecture . It presents such a convincing case for the importance of adaptability and a core architecture to enable that - that you start to view the codebase you are working on, heck, even your life through the perspective of:

This six-part, three-hour, BBC TV series aired in 1997. Presented and co-written by Stewart Brand

You can now watch them online on Google Video

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6

Stewart Brand proclaiming 4 environmental ‘heresies’ during his talk at the US State Department on July 2009. Watch his talk on TED

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Brand

Father of The WELL, one of the first and most influential BBS (BBS were the first public and open network of computers linked by 2400 baud modems) and the Whole Earth Catalog (an “access to tools” that we still need for FarmVille on Facebook :-)

The man who helped usher in the environmental movement in the 1960s and '70s has been rethinking his positions on cities, nuclear power, genetic modification and geo-engineering. amazon link

“Save the Slums!”

..is a very important idea of his book “Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto”.
If you don’t want to read the book you can read this interview where he explain quickly his point of view (the Guardian has a longer review).

Stewart Brand also keep track of his annotations online about this book.

Thanks for taking the time to read this email. See you next week.

Merci beaucoup d’avoir pris le temps de lire ce courriel. A la semaine prochaine.

Take care.