This six-part, three-hour, BBC TV series aired in 1997.  I presented and co-wrote the series; it was directed by James Muncie, with music by Brian Eno.

The series was based on my 1994 book, HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After They’re Built.  The book is still selling well and is used as a text in some college courses.  Most of the 27 reviews on Amazon treat it as a book about system and software design, which tells me that architects are not as alert as computer people.  But I knew that; that’s part of why I wrote the book.

Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like.  Please don’t bug me with requests for permission.  Hack away.  Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.

Historic note: this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital--- shot digital, edited digital.  The project wound up with not enough money, so digital was the workaround.  The camera was so small that we seldom had to ask permission to shoot; everybody thought we were tourists.  No film or sound crew.  Everything technical on site was done by editors, writers, directors.  That’s why the sound is a little sketchy, but there’s also some direct perception in the filming that is unusual.

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Presenter/writer: Stewart Brand
Brian Eno, original music: James Runcie, Producer

Episode 1 - “Flow”

How Buildings Learn

Episode 2 - “The Low Road”

Episode 3 - “Built for Change”

Episode 4 - “Unreal Estate”

Episode 5 - “The Romance of Maintenance”

Epidsode 6 - “Shearing Layers”

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"Connections explores an "Alternative View of Change" that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that one cannot consider the development of any particular piece of the modern world in isolation. Rather, the entire gestalt of the modern world is the result of a web of interconnected events, each one consisting of a person or group acting for reasons of their own motivations (e.g., profit, curiosity, religion) with no concept of the final, modern result to which the actions of either them or their contemporaries would lead. The interplay of the results of these isolated events is what drives history and innovation, and is also the main focus of the series." -Wikipedia

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2  	The London Underground diagram John A Walker 
 	
The author analyses the diagrammatic conventions of Henry Beck's famous two-dimensional graphic represent­ ation of the London Underground railway system, arguing that it is a masterpiece of twentieth-century graphic art that has been accorded insufficient recognition by the art establishment.
 
5	Symbols for deafness
 	
We show the first-prize winning design and two runners-up in a recent competition for the design of a symbol for the deaf and hard-of­ hearing.
 
6	Symbols for tourist guides and maps 
 	
We publish a set of symbols prepared by the British Tourist Authority for use by the publishers of maps and guide books, providing information for tourists.
 
10 	
Blissymbols for the disabled—a manner of speaking Jack Anson Finke
 	
The author describes the remarkable success of Charles Bliss' Semanto­ graphy among patients of the Ontario Crippled Children's Center, Canada.
 
14  	Pattern design and literacy Jorge Frascara
 	
The author describes a joint project being developed by the Departments of Art and Design and Psychology in the University of Alberta, aiming to design an improved alphabet that might help retarded children to more readily identify letterforms.
 
16 	Japanese match box graphics
 	
We show a selection of late nine­ teenth century Japanese match box cover designs.
 
18 	
Type research at the London College of Printing 
 	
We show a selection of foreign type­ faces developed by staff and post­ graduate students within the research unit of the London College of Printing.
 
22	
Tell us what's wrong in pictures­—a medical phrase book
 	We show sample spreads from an experimental pictorial phrase book developed by the Health Education Council of Great Britain, designed to help medical staff when dealing with non-English speaking patients.
 
23	Computer and laser technology speed up Chinese printing
 	A brief account of how the Mono­ type Corporation's new laser-printing methods 

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