Built Environment
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
the Knowledge Project 
the Green Blueprint
2 statements about Built Environment, every show
Spector: Using existing home devices for grid flexibility beats complete rebuilds
“You don't need to overhaul the home entirely. You can take devices people actually have already and make some use out of them for the grid. It's a more modest goal, and I think more realistic than swapping out the entirety of the built environment for somethin…”
Tversky: Architecture controls human actions by physically diagramming social rules
“The world is communicating to us not just in categories and hierarchies and themes and orders, cues for getting into the theater, but it's also telling us how to behave. So it's controlling our actions by the way it's diagrammed in the world”