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This Could...
“This Could…” is a guide to unlocking the potential of existing objects, materials, skills, and all resources to increase resourcefulness, make the most of available assets, and help build a resilient future. The book features Six Steps for How to Do More with What You Have: a 50-page section of insight, examples and worksheets to transform available resources into platforms of possibility. The result of decades of Scott Burnham’s work with cities, organizations, and institutions around the world to do more with their existing resources, “This Could…” is a handbook for individuals, innovators, and entrepreneurs who want to create real-world solutions without consuming additional resources.
Beethoven Hero
Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners be...
This Could
We are exhausting our natural resources. Our landfills are full, and islands of plastic waste are forming in our oceans. People seek alternatives to wasteful consumerism, and companies are challenged to innovate while trying to do more with less.This Could: How Two Words Can Create Opportunity in an Era of Limited Resources provides the strategies and tools needed for companies, cities, and individuals to create an abundance of solutions and future opportunities using the objects, assets, and materials we already have in new ways.The result of decades of Scott Burnham's research and work around the world, This Could enables people to discover the potential of existing assets and utilize what we've already molded from chemicals, pulled from the ground, and felled from forests instead of consuming more.
Sounding Values
For several decades, Scott Burnham has sought to bring a ready ear and plenty of humanistic warmth to musicological inquiry. Sounding Values features eighteen of his essays on mainstream Western music, music theory, aesthetics and criticism. In these writings, Burnham listens for the values-aesthetic, ethical, intellectual-of those who have created influential discourse about music, while also listening for the values of the music for which that discourse has been generated. The first half of the volume confronts pressing issues of historical theory and aesthetics, including intellectual models of tonal theory, leading concepts of sonata form, translations of music into poetic meaning, and recent rifts and rapprochements between criticism and analysis. The essays in the second half can be read as a series of critical appreciations, engaging some of the most consequential reception tropes of the past two centuries: Haydn and humor, Mozart and beauty, Beethoven and the sublime, Schubert and memory.
Design Hacking: Resourceful Innovation and Sustainable Self-Reliance
"Exceedingly well written and comprehensive." – Core77 "Hacking is really just today's name for the personal creative spirit that has always underpinned human ingenuity," writes Scott Burnham. Throughout this essay he traces hacking's evolution from the digital to the analogue world and shows how the resourceful spirit behind hacking is improving everything from design products to cities and public space. The essay features insight Burnham gained from years spent researching and working with design and urban hacking projects around the world. From this observation he details the benefits a hacking ethos can bring to products, services and cities: Hacking creates new engagements between the product and the consumer. Hacking mandates relevance and necessity in design. Hacking is resourceful. Hacking creates abundance from limited resources.Hacking finds the truth in systems. The text closes with "14 Ways to Get Hacked", showing how product makers or service providers can build in ways to encourage a more playful and resourceful relationship with your offering.
Reprogramming the City
"A hopeful anthology of solutions for our hot, crowded planet." - Renée Loth, editor, AchitectureBoston Featuring 44 projects from 17 countries Reprogramming the City shows how people are making cities more livable and resilient by using existing urban objects in new ways. 214 pages with over 300 color photos and illustrations. Reprogramming the City is a global overview of ways existing urban elements are being reimagined and repurposed for new use. From billboards in Lima, Peru, repurposed to generate fresh drinking water to bus stops in northern Sweden transformed to boost the mental health of commuters during dark winter months, Reprogramming the City reveals the hidden abilities contained in existing city structures to improve life for urban residents.
Beethoven Hero
Bringing together reception history, music analysis and criticism, the history of music theory, and the philosophy of music, Beethoven Hero explores the nature and persistence of Beethoven's heroic style. What have we come to value in this music, asks Scott Burnham, and why do generations of critics and analysts hear it in much the same way? Specifically, what is it that fosters the intensity of listener engagement with the heroic style, the often overwhelming sense of identification with its musical process? Starting with the story of heroic quest heard time and again in the first movement of the Eroica Symphony, Burnham suggests that Beethoven's music matters profoundly to its listeners be...
Trust and the Internet of Things
"There is no trust keeper that is trusted." - Bruce SterlingIn one sentence, Bruce Sterling identifies the core challenge of establishing trust in the Internet of Things. Originally written as part of the Trust Design project Burnham directed for two years for the Netherlands Design Institute, Scott Burnham's introductory essay explores some of the issues and possible solutions for designing trust and trusted systems in the Internet of Things. Exploring notions of Identity, Character and Integrity, Burnham shows how some of the human tools we employ when establishing and navigating trust with individuals can be integrated into the network of connected "things" in our lives.Featuring interviews with Bruce Sterling and Joost Grootens, this collection was the basis for a series of workshops and activities at Design Academy Eindhoven, PICNIC Amsterdam, and many other initiatives exploring Trust and the Internet of Things.
Mozart's Grace
Concentrating on music's effects, this book focuses on the most important elements of Mozart's music. Moving beyond conventional analysis and using the figurative powers of language with skill and imagination, this book engages musical issues such as sonority, texture, line, harmony, dissonance, and timing, and aspects of large-scale form such as thematic returns, retransitions, and endings.
Mozart's Grace
Aspects of beauty in the music of Mozart It is a common article of faith that Mozart composed the most beautiful music we can know. But few of us ask why. Why does the beautiful in Mozart stand apart, as though untouched by human hands? At the same time, why does it inspire intimacy rather than distant admiration, love rather than awe? And how does Mozart's music create and sustain its buoyant and ever-renewable effects? In Mozart's Grace, Scott Burnham probes a treasury of passages from many different genres of Mozart's music, listening always for the qualities of Mozartean beauty: beauty held in suspension; beauty placed in motion; beauty as the uncanny threshold of another dimension, whet...
