Summer School 2006
After Ivrea, Roma, Split and Timisoara the 5th Convivio Summer School came to Edinburgh, August 14th-25th.
The theme this year was: "Technology, Enjoying or Enduring it? Visions, Boundaries and Transformations in Extending or Replacing Human Capacities."
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The laws of simplicity.
John Maeda’s “The Laws of Simplicity” is a book (and website) devoted to Maeda’s ongoing thought processes regarding the topic of simplicity.
LAW 1: REDUCE
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.
LAW 2 : ORGANIZE
Organization makes a system of many appear fewer.
LAW 3: TIME
Savings in time feel like simplicity.
LAW 4:
Knowledge makes everything simpler.
LAW 5: DIFFERENCES
Simplicity and complexity need each other.
LAW 6: CONTEXT
What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral.
LAW 7:
More emotions are better than less.
LAW 8: TRUST
In simplicity we trust.
LAW 9: FAILURE
Some things can never be made simple.
LAW 10: THE OBVIOUS
Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.
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