Good bye « Oscillation » … #hexagram #ensad #biennalenemo #decrochage #exposition
This sign in front of the Hotel zum Riesen (Hotel of the Giant) in Miltenberg (Lower Franconia, Bavaria) depicts a giant. The hexagram below it has nothing to do with Judaism, but is an old guild symbol of brewers, especially in southern Germany and Bohemia.
(August 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Zunftzeichen, #guild_symbols, #hexagram, #magen_david, #Brauer, #brewers, #Miltenberg, #Unterfranken, #Bayern

Another workshop done and glad I got a chance to introduce colleagues to the I Ching hexagrams as an example for #BottomUpDesign and as system for constructing/composing higher level concepts/meanings from just a small set of fundamental archetypes (in the I Ching there're only 8 fundamental trigrams)... It's been hugely influential and a guiding principle for my own work & design philosophy (incl. for most of my #OpenSource projects) and I keep finding ever new uses for applying this approach, here to devise a composable classification system, eventually allowing us to define more complex concepts... In world defined by #TopDownThinking, going the opposite way and showing people the benefits/flexibility is sometimes/oftentimes _very_ hard, but to me unquestionably more powerful...

Ps. Also reminded again of the whole Seed technology and essence/function (aka "ti-yong") contrast/discussion/subplots in Stephenson's Diamond Age... Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram_(I_Ching)

#ThingUmbrella #Composition #Language #IChing #Hexagram

Hexagram (I Ching) - Wikipedia

The Hexagram of Solomon - The Hermetic Library Blog

“This is the Form of the Hexagram of Solomon, the figure whereof is to be made on parchment of a calf’s skin, and worn at the skirt of thy white vestment, and covered with a cloth of fine linen white and pure, the which is to be shown unto the Spirits when they do appear, […]

The Hermetic Library Blog

« True joy, therefore, rests on firmness and strength within, manifesting itself outwardly as yielding and gentle. »

― Hexagram #58 from the I Ching

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#quotes #IChing #joy #TheJoyous #hexagram #strength #gentleness

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

True joy, therefore, rests on firmness and strength within, manifesting itself outwardly as yielding and gentle. — Hexagram #58 from the I Ching · The Joyous · via Ask The Oracle

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