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Slime Mold Urbanism: Let People Make Mistakes, conversation with Anthony Mattacchione and Raphael Kay
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I had so much fun speaking with Anthony Mattacchione and Raphael Kay.
They apply what they learned from slime mold to architecture and planning. This fascinating single-cell organism sends pulses through its body and can build efficient networks that resemble cities and transportation systems, only more resilient!
I learned that we need a bit of “individual stupidity” for bottom-up community design to work. And that digital twin-making for cities already exists! What are we going to learn from it?
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