See Ryan talk about Christopher Alexander in NYC

See Ryan talk about Christopher Alexander in NYC Ryan Mar 03 2010

6 comments Latest by Hakan Ensari

I’m excited to give a talk at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. I’m going to walk through Christopher Alexander’s design theory and explain how to apply it to everyday web app UI work. Alexander’s book Notes on the Synthesis of Form had a huge influence on me early in my career at 37signals. It’s going to be a lot of fun to share key points from that book with an audience for the first time. I hope you can come out to see it.

Where:
MFA Interaction Design Department
132 W 21st Street, 6 Floor
New York City

When:
Wednesday, April 7
6:30-8:30PM

See the event page at the SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program to RSVP.

UPDATE: The talk is now sold-out.

6 comments so far

Nathan Borror 03 Mar 10

Hope they’re able to record it. Notes on Synthesis and Form is one of my favorites.

The form is the part of the world over which we have control, and which we decide to shape while leaving the rest of the world as it is. The context is that part of the world which puts demands on this form; anything in the world that makes demands on the form is context. Fitness is a relation of mutual acceptability between these two. In a problem of design we want to satisfy the mutual demands which the two make on one another. We want to put the context and the form into effortless contact or frictionless coexistence. (p. 19)

Poetry.

Marcus Baur 03 Mar 10

I have read all of Alexanders books and met him in person a couple of times. He might well be way ahead of our time. His ideas about live and beauty dwell in that rare space where the practical meets the metaphysical. His latest work “The Nature of Order” has so much to offer for anyone who aims to create something of lasting timeless beauty.

I would love to hear your talk! I have a very good talk by Alexander to computer scientist from 1996. I can share it with you if you want.

Hakan 03 Mar 10

Oh no, it’s already booked up! Posted at 11:30 PM EST and sold out by 9:30 AM :( Any chance they’ll expand the slots available?

Forrest 03 Mar 10

PLEASE make your presentation available to those of us who cannot attend – video, powerpoint, podcast, anything!

RS 03 Mar 10

The department says they will record video and post it online. They did this with Jared Spool’s talk in January.

Hakan Ensari 03 Mar 10

I see a namesake of mine is in similar conundrum. Was going to be in NYC that week, and it would have been cool to attend. I protest.

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