The Latin root it means “go.” Here we “go” on an “it” itinerary!Mass transit systems enable travelers to “go” across urban areas in an efficient fashion. These mass transit systems were initiated or “gone” into in the first place to clear city roads of cars. The mass transit systems make a circuit of the city, or “go” round them so as to serve all parts. This allows an itinerant person, or person on the “go,” to “go” to any part of a city that she wishes to as quickly as possible.
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Growth of Man – like Growth of Nature Poem by Emily Dickinson
Growth of Man – like Growth of Nature –
Gravitates within –
Atmosphere, and Sun endorse it –
Bit it stir – alone –
Each – its difficult Ideal
Must achieve – Itself –
Through the solitary prowess
Of a Silent Life –
Effort – is the sole condition –
Patience of Itself –
Patience of opposing forces –
And intact Belief –
Looking on – is the Department
Of its Audience –
But Transaction – is assisted
By no Countenance –
Source: Growth of Man – like Growth of Nature Poem by Emily Dickinson – Poem Hunter
“The most engaging hybrids are a seamless blend of opposites; for instance, the familiar and the foreign, or the horrific and the beautiful.”
The most engaging hybrids are a seamless blend of opposites; for instance, the familiar and the foreign, or the horrific and the beautiful.
DAM :: Essays :: King: Digital Art Museum 2002
If one is engaged, as we are, with an inventory of all mathematical branches and with an interest in visualising all forms that come to light, one can obtain plenty of forms, shapes and structures never seen before – an expansion of our treasury of forms
DAM :: Essays :: Franke: Expanding Medium 1986
Even though this statement may sound rather sober, it does imply that art is not a material but rather an intellectual process…Most art historians will probably agree that esthetic quality depends neither on style nor on the instrumentarium. What counts is the creativity and sensitivity of the artist and the form and content of the message presented to the public”
DAM :: Essays :: Dietrich: Thought-Experiments 1987
“On one hand, the repercussions of digital simulations are an ever-increasing dematerialization of, among others, aesthetic activities and objects. On the other hand, they provide sensuously apprehendable simulations in situations where scientists previously felt compelled to check theories with thought-experiments because the instrumentarium used to conduct and measure physical experiments was inadequate to provide measurable data.”
Adrian Bejan: “Growth Is Not Evolution” | Suzan Mazur
“I’m not an artist now, I’m a physicist, one who is at ease with images and the fact that science is images. Geometry is images or figures or relations between figures. Mechanics requires pictures that move.”
“In your book, The Origin of Life Circus: A How To Make Life Extravaganza, you interview Rockefeller University physicist Albert Libchaber, who said life is geometry because geometry is physical. I wrote down this line because this is correct. And geometry is macroscopic. Geometry you see it and you pick up a pencil and you draw it. It has nothing to do with chemistry or genes. Zero.”
“I agree with Branscomb to the extent that for anything to move, anything to flow, it must be driven. This is the reason why in my statement of the constructal law I used the word “imposed.” That word imposed means driven, dictated, pushed, pulled.”
“Everywhere I look, I see phenomena that confirm the constructal law, phenomena that tell me and my students that life is physics. That evolution is also a physics phenomenon. Evolution has direction, therefore it is not random. Again, as an educator, I can also tell people what knowledge is and what information is not.”
Source: Adrian Bejan: “Growth Is Not Evolution” | Suzan Mazur
Adrian Bejan
Design in Nature
The Constructal Law
1. Life is flow: all flow systems are live systems, the animate and the inanimate.
2. Design generation and evolution is a phenomenon of physics.
3. Design have the universal tendency to evolve in a certain direction in time.
“The Constructal Law teaches us that nothing operates in isolation; every flow system is part of a bigger flow system, shaped by and in service to the world around it.”
“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live) in must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”
“Constructal Law is another step in our ongoing effort to understand the world around us. It reveals that design in nature is not the result of chance but a universal law.”
“Nature is governed by the tendency to generate shapes and design that evolve in time to reduce imperfection. Design evolution never ends.”
“The rise of humanity is not a radical break from the past bit a chapter in the larger story of the Earth’s long history of flow, design, and evolution. We are part of nature; its oneness includes everything even us. Our special gift is not the ability to act apart from nature but the ability to generate complex and evolving natural designs that allow us to move more mass faster, farther, with longer lifetimes…”
“The road to easier flowing consists of balancing each imperfection against the rest. All the components, working together to create a whole that is less and less imperfect in time.”
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