Nathan Schneider
Cathedrals have not usually been built by top down design, as Eric Raymond assumed. Like the bazaar, they are made from the commons—the overlapping tradition, creativity, and agency distributed across a community.
Unlike the bazaar, they invite people into an interest bigger than themselves.
Nathan Schneider
@rose_alibi @ntnsndr Yes, the idea of building something that you will not live to see finished
a libi rose
@ntnsndr i have always appreciated how much of cathedral building was collaborative and sometimes multigenerational trial and error
Nathan Schneider
@kittylyst @ntnsndr And ongoing!
Ben Evans
@ntnsndr One pertinent example would be La Sagrada Família in #Barcelona - which has an extremely rich and highly relevant history.
Nathan Schneider
@rose_alibi @ntnsndr For sure. I feel like the most important art lesson I can convey as a parent is "turn your mistakes into something beautiful"
a libi rose
@ntnsndr you picked up on the "not see it finished" part of that, i intended the beauty of shared mistake making and course correction 😆. both are true
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