Sunday, November 06, 2005
First bead from the Lajitas Studio [57] ß
Looking towards one of the water ponds
Looking up away from the Rio Grande
Looking to the left from the same spot as picture #2
Looking from the same spot towards the Rio Grande
One of the several ponds of water
Interior area at one of the several Hotels/Condominiums
Area just outside of Pruitt’s studio
The Land and Culture Institute at Lajitas may be created as a not for profit foundation.
The Institute’s mission could be to understand how the current state of the Lajitas properties be used as a basis for positive transformation of culture and land.
The desired benefits must include more than profits by stockholders and landowners. The reason is that profit from the Lajitas properties may not be possible without a benefit being shared with those who live in the region, whose who pass through the resort on Highway 118 and more generally by Mexican-American cultural exchanges.
The land may also benefit from the introduction of “living machine” technology discussed in private between the principals of OntologyStream Inc and Sargert Design Associates.
Copy of text in an email message:
Scott Sargert is respected all over the world
for his imagination and sensitivity to the needs of each specific
"project". He will be contacting you directly.
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/environment/effluent_for_the_affluent.htm
http://wpni01.auroraquanta.com/pv/water?img=1342
(this was in National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/publications/explore.html
Discovery Channel also did a big segment on him
a few years ago too.
Dharma now owns the copyright to the
"Living Machine".
http://www.rps.psu.edu/0009/machine.html
Scott's newer version of this technology is
awesome and what we're using on our new African projects.
The above is an Oct 23, 2005 note from David Sargert to Paul Prueitt.
David and Paul became familiar with each other’s work due to the common emphasis on “anticipation”. The Living Machine is part of a “anticipatory design” philosophy that David and Scott have been developing and implementing in projects around the world. “Anticipatory Technology” is an alterative to Artificial Intelligence technology and to Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s concept of “Semantic Web” (coined as part of a World Wide Web consortium “W3C” standardization process.)