I was having lunch with someone and got into an argument about the reason for putting up solar panels. It was weird to be faced with a different worldview when I felt my view was the obvious answer. It was even weirder to acknowledge that their reason was also perfectly valid, but I still felt triggered. So this got me thinking. This person is not a bad person, I just don’t think he ever even saw the need for care, giving it or receiving it. So what is that worldview, and why is it so different to mine? I wanted to call him selfish, but that wasn’t it. It was more … individualist.
Continue reading “Individualist vs selfish”A note on Claude
It’s weird to be gushing over AI while everyone else seems to hate it…
Continue reading “A note on Claude”Pocket Parks
I first heard of pocket parks when Birgitte was giving a presentation about water sensitive urban design, and citizen participation. She mentioned Pocket Parks in Portland (I cannot hear Portland without saying to myself “Keep Portland weird!“)
Continue reading “Pocket Parks”Curious Game idea
This is bringing together the metaverse data-interoperability idea, with the group level ethic of care – the AquaCurious stuff. Very early thoughts.
Continue reading “Curious Game idea”Holding structures and scapegoating theory … or something. A wobbly.
While working on the AquaCurious proposal, I had a wobbly. This happens, I pour myself into my work completely and so it gets tangled up with all the emotions and undercurrents and things. So I just poured it into Claude. I don’t know if any of its responses are factually true, but the feelings were BIG and the conversation helped.
Don’t you think this whole application is just naive? Too much of a pipe dream?
Continue reading “Holding structures and scapegoating theory … or something. A wobbly.”AquaSavvy: Street flow Sankey
Continuing from the layer perspective and the house level view, here I played with the street level view. Inspiration:
My brief: For the street level, let’s explore taking a OpenStreetMap view of a street, and then converting it from the top down map view, to the idealised, hand drawn version with inputs and outputs.
Continue reading “AquaSavvy: Street flow Sankey”AquaSavvy: House flow Sankey
Carrying on from the Layered visualisation, I started playing with what a house level, or street level visualisation could look like. Some inspiration off the web:
Layered visualisation of resource flows
Inspired by Fil’s Layers Perspective, as well as this papercraft calendar. The idea is to be able to isolate some elements, and then see how they relate.
Cape Town sewage flows
As part of thinking through the AquaSavvy tool visualisations, I revisited an idea from a loooong time ago (2018) that was part of the inspiration for AquaSavvy.
As an exercise, I’m not sure how this would make it into the AquaSavvy tool as is. I had to do a lot of wrangling with Claude, that I don’t think a layperson could or would want to do. It’s fine for the project to do this for our selected sites, but as a global tool meeting people where they are, I don’t know.
Continue reading “Cape Town sewage flows”AquaSavvy tool ideas: Emotion map
Note: This is part of the active AquaSavvy project. We’re prototyping ideas for rending the data into the visualisation tool.
The conversation started with “How can we visualise our emotions and responses to water?”
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