Deacon takes his guiding idea from one of my favourite chapters of a classic Chinese philosophical text from the fourth century B.

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As the bath-house indicates, her guiding idea for this year's Biennial is to treat looking at art as a shared rather than a one-on-one encounter.

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The vision, experience and conviction that turns blueprints into great cities while retaining the integrity of an idea and guiding essential changes through the intricacies of codes, zoning, market economics, popular expectations and procedural complexities is something for which politicians, businessmen and special interests are notoriously ill suited.

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Young made this idea a practical guiding principle.

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At the moment, the setup was still pretty rough around the edges, with an Alps employee keying in at least some of the commands during our demo, but we like the idea of integrating sensors that focus on the driver -- and that gently self-guiding gearstick.

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