Re: Dealing with the vast differences in cohousing intentions | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Sharon Villines (sharonsharonvillines.com) | |
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 08:17:03 -0700 (MST) |
> you are no longer making concrete type decisions and instead you are making > subjective decisions about how to live together, and these decisions often > strongly reflect personal expectations and values. I learned this this week in reference to "ugly" signs. I have a personal adversion to signs because they inflict a blight on the landscape, and the sink, and the doors, and the walls, and .... The first response to an irritation (and often the last) is to post a sign. The signs are rarely attractive or humorous, are often indecipherable, and are usually substitutes for effective action. I finally want ballistic last week over 10 that had been posted without community review (aesthetic or otherwise) and with intentions of being permanent . I told the poster, who could not understand why anyone would object to any sign being posted, that they were ugly, thereby hurting this feelings. Another person in the community called me to talk about this asserting that "ugly" was in the eye of the beholder. Having been through 8 years of college in which all I studied was ugly vs beautiful and 25 years of teaching, among other things, graphics -- logo development and signage among them -- I was livid. But the fact is cohousing is not a professional context. It doesn't matter whether professional criteria are met or not. They are not relevant. What works for the group, works for the group. Even safety and legality are relative values. There are still other issues with the signs -- like process and readability -- do they work? But if after we follow the process and sort out the legal issues (fire codes) the community likes them it doesn't matter whether every graphic designer in the world, including me, would reject them. It only matters that people are happy living with them. Sharon -- Sharon Villines Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC http://www.takomavillage.org _______________________________________________ Cohousing-L mailing list Cohousing-L [at] cohousing.org Unsubscribe and other info: http://www.communityforum.net/mailman/listinfo/cohousing-l
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Re: Power Struggles After Move-In (was: I don't buy ... Fred H Olson, December 10 2001
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Re: Power Struggles After Move-In (was: I don't buy ... Sharon Villines, December 10 2001
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Dealing with the vast differences in cohousing intentions Rob Sandelin, December 13 2001
- Re: Dealing with the vast differences in cohousing intentions Sharon Villines, December 13 2001
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Dealing with the vast differences in cohousing intentions Rob Sandelin, December 13 2001
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Re: Power Struggles After Move-In (was: I don't buy ... Sharon Villines, December 10 2001
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