MAPLED SYSTEMS
MODULAR: components plug-and-play nicely together
ACCESSIBLE: sub-luxury pricing, open-source
POROUS: facilitates permanent and temporary joinery, supports pass-throughs, weaving
LENDABLE: shareable, tradeable, portable
EXTENSIBLE: systems that can adapt and grow; morph
DECAYABLE: fail gradually/fail gracefully/break down into components which return to other systems; flow; rot and return
NEST_OS
NEST_OS is a collection of MAPLED systems and components to support modes of living, working, and making meaning within our home space(s).
NE_001.PARACORD_SHAKER_RAIL_KIT_S_A-1.0 is the first MAPLED SYSTEM designed for BL0T2046. Like a traditional Shaker Rail, BL0T2046’s version is intended to declutter space by suspending objects up and away from useful surfaces.
“traditional furniture was never organized as a whole system. the pieces were a bunch of separate, unrelated objects determined by inertia & sentiment. feeble efforts were made to organize them “visually” but that was just another trap. the old culture always tried to make the unworkable endurable by overlaying it with whichever “good taste” is going at the moment. unfortunately this is like trying to make airplanes look like birds. that never worked either. that’s because you can’t make feathers out of aluminum. Living Structures work with interpenetration of spaces & systematically, geometrically get more performance from a smaller array of components in a more cohesive area. away from room walls they aid circulation, movement & cleaning. one of the most profound results of the Living Structure synthesis is that it frees a larger part of the space in any room for open & inventive uses. you have room left over for tearing a motorbike down, gallery-mounting pre-Columbia sculpture collections or restoring great-grandma’s Singer sewing machine. in a traditional “living room” all these activities would not fit in very well.”
-Ken Isaacs HOW TO BUIILD YOUR OWN LIVING STRUCTURES
"I was talking to my friend Caleb recently about 4-buckers, what he calls $4 knives, the kind of okay-quality-won't-care-if-lost-stolen-vaporized item that you can acquire just about anywhere. He says really though these days, maybe because of inflation, maybe because of supply chain struggles, the balance point of cost/quality/no tears upon loss trifecta means the 4-bucker has become a 7-bucker.”
The 4-bucker philosophy is reminiscent of MUJI's:
"MUJI’s goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, “This is what I really want” but with “This will do.” “This is what I really. want” expresses both faint egoism and discord, while “This will do” expresses conciliatory reasoning."
This will do/4-bucker quality creates a healthy distance between the object and the spirit.
Disposability is not a virtue, but neither is fetishistic luxury. BL0T2046 goods are discardable: giving away something we make, losing it, having it stolen, etc., none of those outcomes should cause any great sense of regret (34. sacrifice is a kind of editing, 37. invest in what is living, 44. share the loot).
Gathering is assembling what is needed; collecting is a perversion of that, a curatorial hoarding oppositional to the flows of flourishing life that includes loss.
Gather the right things, and make meaning while the sun is shining.
