Category: riflessione
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focal things
The German-born American philosopher Albert Borgmann (1937-2023) described two contrasting phenomena: devices and focal things that were based on Martin Heidegger’s concept of Gestell (or enframing as it is known in English). Borgmann uses an old hearth as an example of a focal thing. A hearth is designed to heat a building, but it also…
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abà
We continue to discuss the nature of this project and work and the ways in which how it is called reflect that emerging and adapting work. Below is some text about one possible name: Abà. As we slowly begin to understand this place we are caring for, words start to matter differently. In Sassarese – the…
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after we are gone
He said one day he got up the nerve to ask a Mennonite bishop why rubber tires were forbidden. The bishop answered Klaas’s question with a question: “When do you start raising a child?” According to the bishop, Klaas told us, child rearing begins not at birth, or even conception, but one hundred years before…
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parlavamo
What follows is a text I wrote to capture some sense of the conversations that Igor, Moreno and I were having about S’ABBA in April 2025. – Simon We’ve been talking a lot about movement. The movement and flow of air, light, ideas, people, communication, friendship. The ways in which the space might transform with the…
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il fuoco
Following on from the post forno-improvvisato here are some ideas from Anil Dash about the nature of fire that resonate with our plans for S’ABBA and the potential of building – and cooking with –a wood-fired oven. This one in particular strikes a chord: Depending on the species, and the dimensions, each log in your fire…
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un paradosso
Igor, Moreno and I met this week to talk about S’Abba. We talked about feeling as if the three of us have the vision and determination to complete the project, while wanting to make the space as generously open to others as possible. We wondered if this might be a paradox. Io, Igor e Moreno…