slightly P - zomes at Burning Man

[Michael Bailey]

http://bootiesattva.blogspot.com/

(from which I plucked...)

I'm very happy to announce that our Art Grant proposal for Zonotopia
2012 has been accepted and for the first time we are receiving
Honorarium status as well as financial support from Burning Man!

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As some know, the Zomes such as I design them have two fundamental
influences. The first being, the famous, Buckminster Fuller, who
through his unprecedented impetuousness thought that he could change
the world and actually did. The second is architect Christopher
Alexander, author of "A Pattern Language". Where Fuller aspired to
house all the peoples of the earth in shining aluminum domes and
factory produced Dymaxion homes emphasizing minimum inventory with
maximum volume, Alexander espoused essentially the opposite.

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To Christopher Alexander, shelter, community and society are all
deconstruct-able into patterns of design each of which, for better or
worse, shapes the quality of experience for everyone at all
levels...be it from the quality and quantity of parks and waterways in
your neighborhood to whether or not your child has a secret hiding
cave under the stairs. It is this aesthetic quality of design and the
science of applying that design that Alexander cares about. In his
trilogy called "The Nature of Order", each titled "The Phenomenon of
Life",  "The Process of Creating Life" and "A Vision of a Living
World", he declares and defines the concept that the terms Life and
Living apply to created objects as much as to animate entities. That
is to say that when a thing is designed well and intentionally with
the same principals observed in nature such as levels of scale,
slightly off center, self similarity, etc..., then that thing begins
to become alive for all intents and purposes.

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Here's an excerpt from our proposal...


The Zomes of Zonotopia are jewel like structures carved from wood
which seemingly have sprouted from the playa.  Each provides a
beautiful well crafted sanctuary in which people can interact,
contemplate and meditate. Each zome provides a different experience of
space and enclosure.


Zomes are structural forms which create a magical quality of
experience to the participants.  Derived from three dimensional
projections of higher dimensional cubes, these structures embody a
deep mathematical and geometric expression.


In keeping with the theme Fertility 2.0, this year in addition to the
return of the Zomes of Zonotopia, which will be arranged in a circular
pattern 70' in radius forming a central courtyard, there will be two
dynamically illuminated zonotopal trees. The Two Trees of Zonotopia.