User:Ssstephen/grs/20231006

To de-sign design, I will assign a sign.

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Divided. Square. Equilateral. Gridded. Structured. Compartmentalised. When the groma was positioned, the land would be measures and split: north to south, east to west. Conquered. A basis for a military camp, or a trading village. The territory becomes the map. Centuriatio. Limitatio. Normung bringt Ordnung. The Po Valley was once ager publicus, but this act colonised it.

René Descartes invented the x,y,z coordinate system and the rational grid in the seventeenth century. 

Ruben Pater, Caps Lock

René as dreamer, René as mystic. Grids and magic squares and circles have been used for a long time before science, capitalism and other modern hegemonic structures have utilised them. Designer as shaman, potter, or sacred smith. Someone who embues objects with power. I'd like to take my shapes back now thank you.