Wabi-Sabi
Dom came over for the weekend, and brought me a present - a lovely book called Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. From the back cover:
Wabi-sabi is the quintessentail Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional…
Interestingly, I first came across the term in the source code of some wiki software (explaining that wikis are very wabi-sabi), and it is by no means a stretch of the imagination to apply the ideas to software, agile development and adaptive design.
I’ve been getting into the ideas behind Japanese architecture a bit recently too, so it should be a treat - looking forward to the read ahead. Thanks Dom!
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January 21st, 2006 at 5:53 pm
[...] (For more on this, see The Pope’s Children, Japan Grows a Beard, Wabi-Sabi, Slow Food Ireland, Griffner Coillte, and the wonderful RTÉ documentary series ‘Hands’) [...]
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