10 The vital need for a collective vision

Do it with the people, pulling the statements from their own lips. Make sure you ask each person, always, what is the deepest feeling you have about life, and what does that dictate. Go one pattern at a time, and when debate is needed, debate it, argue it out, one pattern at a time. Have someone — an architect, anyone trained like the staff members of the Center for Environmental Structure, who is not concerned to impose an egocentric image on the community — coordinating the work of putting this language together so that it can be made coherent and useful — and, if possible, poetic.
Do all this with a careful awareness of deep morphology so that […] the system of patterns and sequences becomes generative, capable of conjuring up a whole geometric world when it is let loose.

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