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 ==== Monster Code ====
-Title of the book by Lynne Kelley. Ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge directly into the environment (or objects). Oral cultures tap into two immensely powerful forms of human memory for storing knowledge:
+//Monster// refers to imagination. //Code// refers to encoding things geographically. The name is an adaptation of //Memory Code// the title of the book by Lynne Kelley, on ways of encoding environmental, ethological and cultural knowledge directly into the environment (or objects). Oral cultures tap into two immensely powerful forms of human memory for storing knowledge:
-  * **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.
+  * monster: **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More then “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.
-  * **our memory of character**: you may forget someones name, but you never struggle to remember someones personality. More then “thinking stones and mountains are alive” oral cultures they give their landscape character.
+  * code: **our memory for geography**: we may not be great at remembering list, but we are amazingly good at remembering places. Imagine your house. Almost nobody struggles to remember where the living room, bedroom, kitchen, toilet are, or even the furniture in those rooms. Modern memory champions still use this technique known as a memory-palace. Often the greek [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci|method of loci]] is pointed out as its origin, but that vastly underestimates how fundamental these principles were, stretching over tens of thousands of years of human history and across all continents.
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-==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ====
-Notes on a research program in collaboration with Sjef van Gaalen and Creative Coding Utrecht.
-=== Stage1: Monster Code, Landscape as Mindpalace ===
-Monster Code explores techniques for encoding environmental knowledge directly into the environment itself. Imagination (monsters) and geographic memory are key pillars this builds on. Basically associating knowledge to features and hooks in the landscape, by the power of imagination and story. That power is considerable, as evidenced by the practices of oral cultures around the world, showing knowledge remaining intact over thousands of years and spanning thousands of km. People who have started practicing it report their world is filled with new layers of liveliness: you are not just walking to the bakery or office, you are walking through the history of early humans, all indigenous dragonfly species (or whatever you happen to have encoded locally). But we will start at the beginning.
-This first phase of the research is about rapid prototyping, taking subjects and encoding them in different ways into the environment.
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-Prototyping phase:\\
-  * timeline of presidents encoded into shopping street
-  * timeline of hominids encoded into opposite side of shopping street (each block 1 million years)
-  * mindpalace of damselflies
-=== Stage2: Hiking with Monsters ===
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   * pg 127 shape signifies life, in death they loose shape, so all things with shape have soul  / Julian Barbour geometry is fundamental to the universe
   * pg 127 the soul passes from one chariot to another and this gives creation order, it moves through a particular set of things created by the same ancestor in the Dreaming.
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+==== Hiking with Monsters at Amelisweerd 2021/2022 ====
+Notes on a research program in collaboration with Sjef van Gaalen and Creative Coding Utrecht.
+=== Stage1: Monster Code, Landscape as Mindpalace ===
+Monster Code explores techniques for encoding environmental knowledge directly into the environment itself. Imagination (monsters) and geographic memory are key pillars this builds on. Basically associating knowledge to features and hooks in the landscape, by the power of imagination and story. That power is considerable, as evidenced by the practices of oral cultures around the world, showing knowledge remaining intact over thousands of years and spanning thousands of km. People who have started practicing it report their world is filled with new layers of liveliness: you are not just walking to the bakery or office, you are walking through the history of early humans, all indigenous dragonfly species (or whatever you happen to have encoded locally). But we will start at the beginning.
+This first phase of the research is about rapid prototyping, taking subjects and encoding them in different ways into the environment.
+\\
+Prototyping phase:\\
+  * timeline of presidents encoded into shopping street
+  * timeline of hominids encoded into opposite side of shopping street (each block 1 million years)
+  * mindpalace of damselflies
 ==== Memory Craft, hands-on: ====