THE CULTURE CeDE

Аннотация

Let’s start with a question, which might be the oldest question of all: Why do certain groups add up to be greater than the sum o f their parts, while others add up to be less? A few years ago the designer and engineer Peter Skillman held a competition to find out. Over several months, he assembled a series of four-person groups at Stanford, the University of California, the University of Tokyo, and several other places. He challenged each group to build the tallest possible structure using the following items: