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"Stewart Brand occupe une place essentielle, celle du passeur qui au delà de la technique fait naître les rêves, les utopies et les justifications auto-réalisatrices. Depuis la fin des années soixante, il a construit et promu les mythes de l'informatique avec le Whole Earth Catalog, le magazine Wired ou le système de conférences électroniques du WELL et ses communautés virtuelles. « Aux sources de l'utopie numérique » nous emmène avec lui à la découverte du mouvement de la contre-culture et de son rôle déterminant dans l'histoire de l'internet."

Computers and civilization --- Information technology --- Counterculture --- Computer networks --- Subculture --- Technology --- Brand, Stewart, - 1938-

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The idea that a building is 'finished' or 'complete' on the day it opens its doors is hardwired into existing thinking about design, planning and construction. But this ignores the unprecedented rate of social and technological change. A building only begins its life when the contractors leave. With resources at a premium and a greater need for a sustainable use of building materials, can we still afford to construct new housing or indeed any buildings that ignore the need for flexibility or the ability to evolve over time? Our design culture needs to move beyond the idealisation of a creative individual designer generating highly specific forms with fixed uses. The possibilities of adaptation and flexibility have often been overlooked, but they create hugely exciting 'loose-fit' architectures that emancipate users to create their own versatile and vibrant environments.

architecture [discipline] --- Architecture --- Design architectural --- Motion in architecture --- Architectural design --- Brand, Stewart. --- Design architectural. --- Buildings --- Sustainable buildings --- Architecture, Modern --- Architecture and society --- Architecture and technology --- Constructions --- Constructions durables --- Architecture et société --- Architecture et technologie --- Mouvement en architecture --- Remodeling for other use --- Designs and plans. --- Reconversion --- Dessins et plans --- Brand, Stewart

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A source book for American culture in the 1960s and 1970s: “suggested reading” from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, from Thoreau to James Baldwin. The Whole Earth Catalog was a cultural touchstone of the 1960s and 1970s. The iconic cover image of the Earth viewed from space made it one of the most recognizable books on bookstore shelves. Between 1968 and 1971, almost two million copies of its various editions were sold, and not just to commune-dwellers and hippies. Millions of mainstream readers turned to the Whole Earth Catalog for practical advice and intellectual stimulation, finding everything from a review of Buckminster Fuller to recommendations for juicers. This book offers selections from eighty texts from the nearly 1,000 items of “suggested reading” in the Last Whole Earth Catalog. After an introduction that provides background information on the catalog and its founder, Stewart Brand (interesting fact: Brand got his organizational skills from a stint in the Army), the book presents the texts arranged in nine sections that echo the sections of the Whole Earth Catalog itself. Enlightening juxtapositions abound. For example, “Understanding Whole Systems” maps the holistic terrain with writings by authors from Aldo Leopold to Herbert Simon; “Land Use” features selections from Thoreau's Walden and a report from the United Nations on new energy sources; “Craft” offers excerpts from The Book of Tea and The Illustrated Hassle-Free Make Your Own Clothes Book; “Community” includes Margaret Mead and James Baldwin's odd-couple collaboration, A Rap on Race. Together, these texts offer a sourcebook for the Whole Earth culture of the 1960s and 1970s in all its infinite variety.

Green technology --- Manufactures --- Handicraft --- Appropriate technology --- Equipment and supplies --- Technologie de protection de l'environnement --- Produits manufacturés --- Artisanat --- Technologie appropriée --- Appareils et matériel --- 7.01 --- 001.89 --- Catalogi ; catalogus van de wereld ; Whole Earth Catalog ; 1968-1972 --- Alternative technology --- Appropriate technologies --- Soft technology --- Technology --- Crafts (Handicrafts) --- Handcraft --- Occupational therapy --- Manual training --- Occupations --- Sloyd --- Earth-friendly technology --- Environmental technology --- Kunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Wetenschap en kennis in het algemeen ; organisatie van de wetenschap en van het wetenschappelijk werk --- Catalogi ; catalogus van de wereld ; Whole Earth Catalog ; een compendium --- Tijdschriften ; 20ste eeuw ; Whole Earth Catalog ; 1968-1972 --- Cultuurfilosofie ; 20ste eeuw ; ideeën ; over alle aspecten van de wereld --- Brand, Stewart --- Produits manufacturés --- Technologie appropriée --- Appareils et matériel --- Decorative arts --- Architecture mobile --- Utopie --- Architecture éphémère --- Sociologie de la culture --- Philosophie --- Années 1960 --- USA --- États-Unis