We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that our current reality is a blend of digital and physical experiences, shaped by our perceptions.
Paola Antonelli emphasizes the complex interplay between our physical realities and digital existence, suggesting that our understanding and experience of the world today is a 'minestrone'βa mix of various elements that our minds combine. This idea reflects the shifting nature of reality in an age where both digital and physical components influence our daily lives, emphasizing the unique perception each individual has based on their experiences and interactions.
In practice
In a discussion about the impact of technology on human interaction, I quoted Paola Antonelli to illustrate our complex modern reality.
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. Theyβre able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.
Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.
The water has a Water that is driving it; _x000D_ The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.
i understand that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which we stupidly impose our hopes and fears. i understood that, finally and absolutely, i alone exist. all the rest, i saw, is merely what pushes me, or what i push against, blindly - as blindly as all that is not myself pushes back. i create the whole universe, blink by blink.
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