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Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)

Looking for Alice, part 3

This was what we were discussing at Cochabamba bus terminal, while ticket sellers announced their services by singing the names of destinations, their voices weaving together into a soft murmur under the arched sheet metal roof. For it to happen, the mathematician and architect Christopher Alexander writes, the design must allow you to “mess around with it and progressively change it to bring it into an adapted state with yourself, your family, the climate, whatever.” Often, modern houses make this harder. There was no holding back after we started hanging, no waiting to answer messages; there was an unbridled curiosity and openness towards each other, a shared longing to learn and develop in every way, and this led to a rapid progression.

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