Wabi-sabi for artists, designers, poets & philosophers
by Leonard Koren · first published 1994
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“Wabi-sabi 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... The immediate catalyst for this book was a widely publicized tea event in Japan. The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi has long been associated with the tea ceremony, and this event promised to be a profound wabi-sabi experience. Hiroshi Teshigahara, the hereditary iemoto (grand master) of the Sogetsu school of flower arranging, had commissioned three of Japan’s most famous and fashionable architects to design and build their conceptions
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I haven't actually gotten to it yet, but Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren has been on my to-read list for quite a while.
on “Japanese aesthetic principles to change your thinking” ↗…varying degrees of success. The current list can be described as "books for programming that are not about programming" containing such gems as How Buildings Learn, Pattern Recognition, Living System, Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers, and others. I suspect Dr. kay would have a lot to say about (and perhaps add to) such a list.
on “Alan Kay's reading list” ↗I've read "Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers" by Leonard Koren 978-0981484600. It's a bit pretentious, but helped me think about the concept on my own.
on “Overthinking (2021)” ↗This book sounds fun to read. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, by Leonard Koren > It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. And a discussion around how it might relate to software: >> A related term in literature and the arts is "clinamen", the act of deliberately breaking a stylistic rule to enhance the
on “Acronym’s new computer with Asus is bonkers, but that’s the point” ↗