General talk about software patterns

[Ron Goldman <rgoldman AT cs.stanford.edu>]

Just ran across this short interview with Christopher Alexander on youtube 
where he talks about the use of feeling in his work at the University of 
Oregon:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V4QYC-PRIw

Thought folks on this list might appreciate it.

-- Ron --

p.s. Greg also has a website, www.urbanology.com, to aid in community 
development using ideas he developed with Alexander.


youtube description: 

To create and maintain good places, buildings, and neighborhoods, we must 
admit the explicit use of _feeling_ when we decide whether some proposal is 
in harmony with the good things that already exist. This video is from a talk 
between 'A Pattern Language' author Christopher Alexander, and Urbanology.com 
founder Greg Bryant, recorded in Berkeley on January 6, 1994 by filmmaker 
David Heine.


and a comment from the interviewer:

Greg Bryant via Google+
 
In 1993, I had some questions I needed to ask Christopher Alexander about the 
Oregon Experiment, which he began in 1970 at the University of Oregon, and 
with which he had recently become involved again. One question: the nature of 
the criteria used to diagnose a place ...