• Notes on the synthesis of shapes p.64 in [Christopher Alexander. image
    • context and form.

    • The Real WorldStatue in the mindThe image of the statue in your mind

    • The Real World = Chapter 4: The Unaware State, Complex Interactions Between Context and Form, Humans Don’t Design

    • Statue in the mind

    • F2 is a blueprint, idea memo, or something that will take shape later.

    • Contextual mental images C2 are often wrong

    • The image of the statue in your mind

    • To solve the problem that the context’s mental image C2 is often wrong, he thought, we could abstract C2 further into C3, leaving only its abstract structural properties. This makes sense.

    • He brought set theory to this C3, but I wonder if the choice is appropriate.

    • But, well, we had to talk about the usefulness of using set theory in a situation where few people think it is beneficial to the designer’s work.

    • In the process of considering his design work from this “set” perspective, he began to think that “what he had implicitly thought of as a (Christmas) tree might be a semilachis.

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