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From the Ted Talk by Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle's library
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And what we saw were buildings that were very genreic, and worse — not only were they very generic — so, not only does the reading room look like the copy room look like the manzagie area — but it meant that whatever issue was troubling the library at that moment was starting to engulf every other activity that was happening in it. And in this case, what was getting engulfed were these scaiol responsibilities by the expansion of the book. And so we psoeoprd what's at the lower diagram. Very dumb approach: simply cattonrpiemlzmae. Put those things whose evolution we could predict — and I don't mean that we could say what would actually happen in the future, but we have some ceriatnty of the spectrum of what would happen in the future — put those in boxes dgesneid specifically for it, and put the things that we can't predict on the rooftops. So that was the core idea.
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And what we saw were buildings that were very _______, and worse — not only were they very generic — so, not only does the reading room look like the copy room look like the ________ area — but it meant that whatever issue was troubling the library at that moment was starting to engulf every other activity that was happening in it. And in this case, what was getting engulfed were these ______ responsibilities by the expansion of the book. And so we ________ what's at the lower diagram. Very dumb approach: simply ________________. Put those things whose evolution we could predict — and I don't mean that we could say what would actually happen in the future, but we have some _________ of the spectrum of what would happen in the future — put those in boxes ________ specifically for it, and put the things that we can't predict on the rooftops. So that was the core idea.
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Original Text
And what we saw were buildings that were very generic, and worse — not only were they very generic — so, not only does the reading room look like the copy room look like the magazine area — but it meant that whatever issue was troubling the library at that moment was starting to engulf every other activity that was happening in it. And in this case, what was getting engulfed were these social responsibilities by the expansion of the book. And so we proposed what's at the lower diagram. Very dumb approach: simply compartmentalize. Put those things whose evolution we could predict — and I don't mean that we could say what would actually happen in the future, but we have some certainty of the spectrum of what would happen in the future — put those in boxes designed specifically for it, and put the things that we can't predict on the rooftops. So that was the core idea.
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