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Diagramming Utopia: Paolo Cirio’s “Open Society Structures – Algorithms Tryptic”

James David Morgan wrote this post at 12:35 pm on July 16th, 2009.

Open Society Structures - Algorithms Tryptic. Digital print on Plexiglass, prototype. 39x54cm

Tactical media artist Paolo Cirio, whose past work includes Google Will Eat Itself, presents the Open Society Structures tryptic as a framework for “direct, participative and processual democracy,” literally mapping elements of a society and flows of power for future use.

It includes a basic taxonomy of social, economic and political concepts relevant to the creation of a perfect society, showing the direction of dependencies, feedback interactions, and the relative significance of qualities and activities.

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