"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989) was a French philosopher renowned for his work on philosophy of technology. He developed an ontology focusing on the processes of individuation, addressing how individuals emerge and transform through communication, and contributed significantly to information theory. This week we try to take...
Last week I wrote a litle thing on how a naming convention can help: people finding stuff; people using stuff at the appropriate Level of Development; people revising such stuff, and recognising its Level of Development at a glance. The decision tree of this process was summarised as follows: It's...
Domanda legittima. Dato che settimana scorsa ho scritto due righe a proposito dei riferimenti normativi obsoleti, qualcuno ha pensato che potesse essere una buona idea mandarmi il suo capitolato informativo per sapere se fosse ben fatto oppure no. A prescindere dal fatto che un lavoro...
How to Craft Names That Keep Humans Sane Whenever I draft a new standard for a company that's transitioning to BIM, I start from the naming convention of files and objects, because if you can't name things, you can't find them, and most certainly you can't...
1. The Taste of Water In Dune, Frank Herbert imagined a desert planet called Arrakis, a world so arid that water itself becomes sacred. On its burning sands, the nomadic Fremen survive by recovering every possible drop of moisture from their bodies, air, and even the...
"The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality." An overview of the series and...
1. Introduction — The Paradox of Standards The dream of a digital commons is as old as the internet itself: a space where information flows freely across boundaries, where collaboration scales beyond organisations, and where knowledge becomes a shared infrastructure rather than a private asset. In...
I think it's plain to see that there are very few things being actually developed within Autodesk, right now. Revit needs a total rewrite (and it's not happening), Navisworks is a zombie crawling from version to version and it hasn't been updated in decades, and...
1. Introduction 1.1. Why the Word “Common” deserves Scrutiny Let’s get something out of the way: in the world of digital construction, “common” is a loaded word. It evokes a sense of unity, standardisation, and shared purpose. It conjures images of centralised vaults of truth — the...
