Ground Covered

An accumulation of GPS tracks in Google Earth - the series of lines across Central Park and the set of three bridges represent two new pieces of work, the loop of yellow near the bottom represents two new friendships and the remainder represent a lot of looking and learning.

I recently went through my notebook and pulled out what are, for me, the resonant points from my 38 days in NYC. These come from various – and often multiple – sources:

• Radical changes occur when you link solutions to a new system.
• Fringes are very important.
• Porosity (leaving gaps for others to work in) is very important.
• What you think of as being possible is dictated by your past experience and/or what you think of as being the problem // You cannot see what the future post-leap will be // People will use the X in ways you cannot predict.
• Failure as a measure of progress.
• The importance of documentation and of working in a do-ocracy // Mapping possibilities through experimentation.
• Often the best teachers are those who have just learned for themselves.
• We’re not making things, we’re making things that help us to learn about ourselves // Making probes to reveal more about the world // our apparatuses and questions reveal new possibilities .
• The importance of triangulation // We show up through our interactions and relationships with others.

The challenge is now to digest and assimilate.