{"id":1287,"date":"2015-11-12T13:58:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T21:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2015-11-12T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T22:01:17","slug":"viriditas-areophany-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/?p=1287","title":{"rendered":"Viriditas &#038; Areophany and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just wrapping up reading \u00a0 The Mars Trilogy \u00a0by\u00a0Kim Stanley Robinson.\u00a0I walk away from the series with two words burned into my brain. &#8220;<strong>Viriditas<\/strong>&#8221; and &#8220;<strong>Areophany<\/strong>&#8220;. I wonder how do these concepts apply to our appreciation of design and design systems.<\/p>\n<p>from Wikipedia: &#8220;<strong>Viriditas<\/strong> (Latin, literally &#8220;greenness,&#8221; formerly translated as &#8220;viridity&#8221;[1]) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth. \u00a0 Kim Stanley Robinson used it non-theologically to mean &#8220;the green force of life, expanding into the Universe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the Mars series a new belief system is created called the &#8220;<strong>Areophany<\/strong>&#8220;. The system is devoted to the appreciation and furthering of life (&#8220;viriditas&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to think we as designers have a <strong>Areophany<\/strong> about design and want to further the most delightful experiences as possible.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1288 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mars.jpg\" alt=\"mars\" width=\"400\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mars.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mars-300x152.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just wrapping up reading \u00a0 The Mars Trilogy \u00a0by\u00a0Kim Stanley Robinson.\u00a0I walk away from the series with two words burned into my brain. &#8220;Viriditas&#8221; and &#8220;Areophany&#8220;. I wonder how do these concepts apply to our appreciation of design and design systems. from Wikipedia: &#8220;Viriditas (Latin, literally &#8220;greenness,&#8221; formerly translated as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-design","8":"category-uncategorized","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-service-design"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/shell.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3iJZ9-kL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1287\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephengay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}