Pattern language(ing) is one of three basic modes of writing within this assemblage. The intention is to characterise ‘chunks of practice’ that may be mobilised and articulated together, in a design-like intentional fashion, to constitute actual practices of actual radical formations. While this mode is in a sense more technical or operational than the other tow, it remains poetic and evocative: patterns need to be 'danceable' and 'singable' into the flow of intentional practice.
Pattern language(ing) - A main section of 'A book of skill'
The 'chunks' are understood as as patterns, and we understand these in the way that Chris Alexander and his colleagues exemplified when they presented a pattern language of urban and domestic space in the 70s; as **elements of order** that are experienced as present in eminently living, beautiful, habitable, well formed, convivial environments. Chris Alexander and pattern languages - to be added xxx
> This is a stub - to be extended xxx To begin with (April 2024) there's not a huge amount of concrete pattern in this collection. Most attention to date has gone into the foprop frame. Even if it is top-down, I feel it makes strategic sense to have an explicit ontological frame, which can of course evolve. But see: Pattern families @ foprop Narrative flow - The foprop weave