“People-shaped systems” is an idea for designing infrastructure, tech, or institutions, around how people actually behave, not how planners wish they behave.
In theory, you want the "best" tool. But in reality, yet another system in the stack means more integration, dependencies and more potential points of failure.
Squares and rectangles dominate agriculture. Yet there are very few square crops? When you consider the utility of swales, mulching, prevailing wind patterns
Water’s hydrogen bonding gives it properties like high surface tension, capillarity, and cohesion—allowing it to hang from leaves and trees or form droplets...