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Carnival Manifesto: Doing away with the trivial and the mundane, at least for a while.

by Tommy Manuel

I came across this a few days ago while look­ing for man­i­festos online. What appealed to me, besides the obvi­ous intent that any man­i­festo seeks to ini­ti­ate a fis­sure in the sta­tus quo, was the mix­ture of seri­ous­ness that typ­i­cally char­ac­ter­ize these pub­lic state­ments and the light-hearted epi­curean qual­i­ties of the carnival.

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The Awesomeness Manifesto

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Umair Haque, Harvard Busi­ness Publishing, 2:47 PM Wednes­day Sep­tem­ber 16, 2009
Inno­va­tion: it’s the ulti­mate source of advan­tage, the undis­puted heavy­weight cham­pion of the eco­nomic ring. Inno­va­tion is what every orga­ni­za­tion should be ruth­lessly pur­su­ing, right? Wrong.
I’d like to advance a hypoth­e­sis: awe­some­ness is the new inno­va­tion.
Let’s face it. “Inno­va­tion” feels like a relic of the indus­trial era. […]

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WHY ART? Manifesto

by Tommy Manuel

So, if you’ve been read­ing, you may be aware that I like man­i­festos. I came across this one on by Holly Friesen while brows­ing Twit­ter yes­ter­day.  Friesen is an artist/poet liv­ing in the Lau­rent­ian moun­tains of Que­bec. Below is one of Friesn’s land­scape paint­ings, Fem­i­nine Cocoon.

Fem­i­nine Cocoon, 2008

The WHY ART? Man­i­festo
PEOPLE Have been THINKING too […]

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The Generation M Manifesto, by Umair Haque

by Tommy Manuel

I real­ize I may be veer­ing off the topic with this post, but sev­eral things  —  the Iran­ian elec­tion, now riots in China, the col­lapse of our house-of-cards econ­omy, a loom­ing infra­struc­ture cri­sis, and Kim Jong Ill’s hissy fits - have been con­verg­ing into an opti­mal seed bed for the polemic. Last night at the Man­hat­tan Stu­dio Ses­sion, the […]

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Manifesto for an Infrastructure Against Atrophy

by Tommy Manuel

The fol­low­ing man­i­festo is a work­ing draft and may be edited in the future to account for new infor­ma­tion and devel­op­ments.
This a man­i­festo for an infra­struc­ture against atro­phy, a net­work of mul­ti­func­tional sys­tems con­ceived on the premise to sup­port human fit­ness and envi­ron­men­tal resiliency. This is the under­ly­ing form before form, the antecedent to future […]

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“A Manifesto in 140 Characters or Less” or “Tweeting Democracy in Iran”

by Tommy Manuel

When I first got the idea for this post, I was mostly think­ing about archi­tec­tural man­i­festos in 140 char­ac­ters or less. The recent events in Iran, how­ever, made me real­ize that a great num­ber of archi­tec­tural man­i­festos are intensely polit­i­cal. As a tool, the man­i­festo pub­licly out­lines a set of prin­ci­ples and objec­tives by which […]

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