September
5, 2003 to December 3, 2003 |
| I
remind you that this section of my web sit
is essentially an autobiographical work [link].
As a Notebook, it is a biography in real-time
that moves back and forth between past, present
and future. It so happens that this also
documents ongoing work and therefore is
a place where collogues come for current
project information. As I have noted elsewhere
[link],
I will soon reach a cut off point and create
an entirely separate section for the presentation
of professional projects and finished writings.
I have not done that yet because the present
work is so much part and parcel of the first
chapter of my story which is getting to a
certain place in my work - a place that certainly
is in sight now but not yet quite reached
[link]. |
| As
I have stated, this is about context [link] -
it is my firm belief that, although this
co-mingling
of personal and professional thought processes
is unusual, that it is essential for understanding
the work as well as the man. |
| The
parts of this Notebook that are produced
directly in html for web publishing are unusually
candid; they are, however, written with the
awareness that they will immediately go onto
a public web site. The hand-written Notebooks
were
not done with this intent in mind. They are,
therefore, another degree more candid and
personal. It was in November of 2003
that I decided to “publish” the several thousand
hand-written pages that I produced between
1979 and today - without this in the record,
the story of the making of MG Taylor is greately
impoverished. This Notebook, represented
by the pages below, is the most recently
completed one and the
first
to be
published. I will work my way backward to
1979 as time allows and publish current Notebooks
as I finish them. These will be published
in their entirety except where certain individual’s
or organization’s privacy may be an issue.
In this case, I will blank out page sections
or omit the page all together. This case
it will be made clear that this has happened. |
| What
I ask of you, the reader, is to be aware
that this is, in many cases, sensitive information
and to act accordingly. There are many reasons
for documenting a life - mine is primarily
to pass on what I have experienced and learned
about attempting a serious life in a time
that does not much honor such pursuits. It
is also done to document a number of ideas
and projects, because of their nature or
that of the times, that may have a very long
incubation period and,
if
not
preserved,
may have to
be reinvented from scratch at some future
date.
The record is distorted if not complete.
To be complete, however, means to be exposed.
I am asking you, the reader, to act while
keeping all this in mind. |
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| This
series of pages make up some of my most important
personal work in several years. During the last
quarter of 2003, I was reassessing myself and my
work - sorting through experiences and circumstances
to
find what is relevant, now. There is no question
that my work is at some kind of tipping-point but
what
this means - and how I should act on it - is not
a simple thing to understand. At the time I was “asking”
these
questions, I was also working through the design
of the Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital Executive Offices
[link] -
one of the most advanced and difficult designs I
have attempted in decades. These two together -
the questions and the project - caused a great deal
of personal stress and creative tension. These Notebook
pages document how this tension was resolved and
baked into a more advanced understanding, from before,
of what the next few
years may produce. |
| It
appears that we are well on our way to achieving
the critical mass necessary for building Xanadu -
a vision that goes back to 1958 [link].
The next round of work, with Vanderbilt, the VA,
SDC, Master’s Academy, perhaps Columbia, Kingsport
and Harmony, can effectively double the critical
mass of the NavCenter ValueWeb putting us within
shouting distance of both the ability to demonstrate
the need for a global response system and the capability
to respond that way when the need is recognized.
Xanadu will come into existence when this capacity
crosses a certain threshold. |
| One
thing that emerges from these pages is that it is
time for me to take on the public role of representing
this work in such a way that it becomes a true issue
of choice of our society. It may - or not - succeed,
but it has to be given a life of its own. It is time
for these concepts to leave the nest and it is time
for me relate to them in a different way. 2004 will,
in large part, be about this transition. |
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pages
402 - 451 September 5, 2203 to December 3, 2003
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PROLOG
written
December 3, 2003
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INDEX
[not
yet complete]
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402
09/05/03
self
assessment
my life’s intent
where do I belong?
Abscape: Quo Vatus?
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403
09/07/03
Xanadu
as THERE
main focus
Glass Bead Game
where, when, how?
which VISION prevails?
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404
09/08/03
Xanadu’s
social context
transformation
Neutral Voice
Smith, Hesse, Channon
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405
09/08/03
steps
to Xanadu
100 NavCenters
Unicredito Bank
Italy
EEU
1958 vision
Renascence
Peter Ponton
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406
09/09/03
present
projects
network of NavCenters
Xanadu as HUB
network architecture
1982, 1983 maps
node investment model
critical mass
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407
09/09/03
SDC
Campus
Regional NavCenter
planetary scope
design the future
neutral place
“think” ValueWeb
engineer dreams
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408
09/09/03
design/build/use
planetary scale architect
network architecture
production capability
R&D
recursion levels
2 year development
NavCenter network
Xanadu by 2005
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409
09/08/03
MGT
business model
IP/IC
MG Taylor mission
ValueWeb Integrator
7 level of system
MT personal goals
enterprise intent
Xanadu
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410
09/10/03
SFIA
Architects
Master Builders
web page design
project profiles
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411
09/11/03
Mumford
my network strategy
1958 vision
nature of community?
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412
09/11/03
success
or failure?
what works no matter?
friends - associates
relationships
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413
09/11/03
The
Work
work and success
heuristic search
personal path
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414
09/11/03
THE Choice
Cathedral Builder
SFIA Architects
4 tasks
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415
09/15/03
POD patent
control-ability
WorkConservatory
Peter Ponton
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416
09/15/03
POD
patent
high variety environment
knowledge worker
creativity
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417
09/16/03
65th
birthday
creating a life
20,000 steps - Coffman
humanities’ choice
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418
09/16/03
edited
personal reflections
living a serious life
4 strategies
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419
09/17/03
DesignShop
practice
next level
frames
memory
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420
09/18/03
present
projects
end-state model
D/B/U process
VCH project
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421
09/19/03
Bernard
Rudofsky
Streets For People
Hardin, Mumford, Fuller
Wright, Dudofsky, Beer
McHarg, Alexander
our voice, now?
VCH as landscape
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422
09/19/03
street
metaphor
wilderness mega city
VCH sections
armature elements
true recreation
transition to landscape
Gaia
state capitalism
modern failures
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423
09/19/03
why
do it?
personal reflections
4 life strategies
building
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424
09/20/03
street
and armature
automobile misuse
design process
materiality
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425
09/20/03
VCH
project goals
“earth” floor
20 years
signature piece
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426
09/21/03
wilderness
mega city
program
articulating skin
point of view
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427
09/22/03
VCH
Executive Offices
work packages
HVAC strategies
SFIA model
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428
09/24/03
VCH
theme
Gaia, health, youth,
renewal, transformation
life forms
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429
09/25/03
VCH
Offices
the possible
raising the anti
web page use
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430
09/25/03
POD
components
owner options
POD technology
adjustability scales
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431
09/27/03
CAMELOT visit
location question
stewardship
POD design issues
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432
09/27/03
CAMELOT:
use, economics,
next steps
materiality
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433
09/27/03
CAMELOT:
use and symbol
young architects
MGT model skill set
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434
09/28/03
VCH
field visit
dimensions
drawing schedule
questions/concerns
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435
10/02/03
Osler
DesignShop
notes
modules
goals
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436
10/04/03
VCH
Notes
floors-why flat?
texture!
authenticity
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437
10/05/03
Osler
DesignShop
notes
modules
Day 3 options
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438
10/09/03
VCH
Plan
kinds of space
floor: earthy base
direct expression
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439
10/16/03
SFIA
presentation
mindmap
4 projects
architectural practice
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440
10/17/03
Matt
Taylor web site
improvements
links
sections
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441
10/17/03
ARCHITECTURE:
creed
values
process
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442
10/19/03
VCH
project
work breakdown
drawings format
schedule issues
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443
10/22/03
4
trends: destruction of
natural habitat, human habitat, law, public participation/discourse
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444
10/23/03
starting
over
“do no harm...”
all scales in play
2004
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445
10/25/03
VCH
POD
technical systems
embedded processes
habit of work
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446
10/29/03
THERE
knowledge augmentation
10 step process
VCH/Apple system
next generation
SFIA iSight use
20 years to now
1967 vision
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447
11/07/03
THE
WORK
cybernetic forest
archive reorganization
documentation
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448
11/07/03
20,000
steps
1983 assignment
distributed documentation
building works
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449
11/07/03
Kingsport
MGT office location
community NavCenter
RK - 2004 budget
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450
11/07/03
Columbia
Presentation
mindmap
role of libraries
network connections
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451
11/08/03
VCH
implementation
meet w/ Jim & Fred
trade-offs
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Postscript
12/03/03
paradox
creativity
the work ahead
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Postscript
2
12/03/03
prospect
of profit
make or break time
MGT leadership
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Matt
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Elsewhere
January 1, 2004
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