The stick charts were the main tool the Marshallese used to navigate on canoe across the islands of the Pacific Ocean, until WWII. Lacking … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
Monopoly before Monopoly: A Board Game as a Critical Device
"Children of nine or ten years (...) learn that the quickest way to accumulate wealth and gain power is to get all the land they can in the … [Read more...]
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