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Fort Mason Bench Project, San Francisco

A communal workshop in which ~20 student apprentices built a bench at Fort Mason using the fundamental process as a microcosm of neighborhood dynamics.

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

Thinkers (2)

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Stewart Brand
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Author of How Buildings Learn, argued for step-by-step adaptation in buildings.
Irmine Stelzner
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Co-organizer with Stewart Brand of the Fort Mason bench workshop.

Concepts (1)

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Fundamental process
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The core iterative procedure that creates living structure; the engine of living process

Chapters (1)

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Chapter 11: How Living Processes Must Generate Necessary Further Dynamics of Any Neighborhood Which Comes to Life
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The working unit being extracted; covers dynamic neighborhood generation, structure-preserving transformations, and case studies in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, and San Francisco.

Claims (1)

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In miniature, the Fort Mason bench and its ornaments display the same morphological features as the layout of a neighborhood displays in the large — the fundamental process works at all scales
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Alexander's cross-scale invariance claim about the living process.