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George Sturt

The wheelwright's shop

'George Sturt, my grandfather, was not a stranger to the shop when he bought it. He had been leading man there for some time ... It seems almost certain to me, first, that he only made a lathe on condition that a proper "house" for it should be built, and second, that Grover was not very well able to refuse what his leading man wanted.'
(p.5.81)

This is the most useful book I know for 'seeing behind design', or 'through it', for in his account of the craft of wagon-making George Sturt shows how objects of great complexity, and of excellent 'fit' to their users, were evolved entirely without designers or other educated specialists. I see similarities between this and the crafting of software, and encouragements to share creative processes 'with everyone'.

Gertrude Stein

Hannah Arendt

Edwin Schlossberg

Marshall McLuhan
Walt Whitman