Lewis Home Systems

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Domestic Metasystems"><U>Domestic Metasystems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Multipurpose Design Labs"><U>Multipurpose Design Labs</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Extended Habitation Systems"><U>Extended Habitation Systems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corporate Cottage Systems"><U>Corporate & Community based Cottage Systems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Global Village"><U>The Global Village</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Modularizing the Future Skyline"><U>Modularization and Streamlining of the Future Skyline</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Franchising Metasystems"><U>Franchising Metasystems</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ReGlobalization"><U>Alternative Development & Reglobalization</U></A></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Lewis Works</B></FONT>     |     <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Lewis Works"><U>home</U></A></div> <div> <B>Lewis Home Systems</B>   |   <A HREF="id50.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Multipurpose Design Labs"><U>Multipurpose Design Labs</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Domestic Metasystems"><U>Domestic Metasystems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id53.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Extended Habitation Systems"><U>Extended Habitation Systems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Global Village"><U>The Global Village</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id54.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Corporate Cottage Systems"><U>Corporate Cottage Systems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id57.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Modularizing the Future Skyline"><U>Modularizing the Future Skyline</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id56.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Franchising Metasystems"><U>Franchising Metasystems</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id58.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ReGlobalization"><U>ReGlobalization</U></A></div> <div> Lewis Home Systems</div> <div> The home based system provides a fundamental metasystems model and design template for the Lewis-Works framework. The home is variously defined and articulated in cross-cultural contexts, and represents a pan-human feature that is at the center and core of human cultures and human adaptive systems on earth. How we articulate things in the context of the home provides a basic framework that is extended to larger social and community contexts in the world, and that defines as well the basic relationships we establish with our environment.</div> <bR> <div> The Lewis-Works framework has had its beginning in a domestic context, and domestic modes of production, in particular cottage and craft handiwork, are considered of high regard in relation to the human systems framework that supports and operates within this mode of production. Though such systems do not obtain the efficiencies and production capacities of assembly lines and machine-based industrialized systems, and though they can offer in exploitative contexts a form of coercion bordering on the drudgery of involuntary servitude, it remains nevertheless the case that from the standpoint of human integration, adaptive flexibility, creativity and interest, they remain the best and most naturalistic forms of productive systems yet devised. They offer the greatest possibility for differential human involvement in work and organization of production.</div> <bR> <div> Though Lewis-Works as a framework has outgrown the domestic context and has been transplanted increasingly to an outside market context, it retains a central connection to home-based metasystems. With the Internet, an increasing number of jobs are being distributed back to working domestic contexts. Home-based web-business have sprung up worldwide as a developmental possibility of the Internet.</div> <bR> <div> Lewis Home Systems provide the operational headquarters for the entire Lewis-Works framework, home-based metasystems continues to be the driving context for the development of this framework in a larger world. The boundary between home and business, between work and play, structure and anti-structure, has become blurred as a result of the successful extension of such home-based metasystems. On one hand, such extension can provide considerable cost-reduction in terms of capital investment, etc. At the same time, it provides a framework for total systems integration that cannot be achieved by commuting to distant centralized locations and the separation of space and time between various functions that a person undergoes in the cycle of a normal day. This is a great hidden benefit and potential for human-based redevelopment afforded by the information revolution and the worldwide web. </div> <bR> <div> Lewis Home Systems provides the foundation for the new forms of social and cultural integration upon which redevelopment strategies rest. It entails the realization of new forms of freedom and self-control as well as new forms of responsibility and self-discipline and provides the platform for the articulation of change and conflict resolution in the future. Many of these issues are already being played out as the result of unrestricted access to the Internet.</div> <bR> <div> Unfortunately, our reconceptualization, reorganization and reconfiguration of our homes, workplaces, and relations with the world is relatively incomplete and immature--regressive in some respects as we look back to by-gone eras for a sense of nostalgia and escape from the coercive dictates of modern living. It cannot be accomplished in isolation, as an island, bereft of social context for support.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <p align="center"> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> s="na";c="na";j="na";f=""+escape(document.referrer) </script> <script language="javascript1.2" type="text/javascript"> s=screen.width;v=navigator.appName if (v != "Netscape") {c=screen.colorDepth} else {c=screen.pixelDepth} j=navigator.javaEnabled() </script> <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"> function pr(n) {document.write(n,"\n");} NS2Ch=0 if (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2") {NS2Ch=1} if (NS2Ch == 0) { r="&size="+s+"&colors="+c+"&referer="+f+"&java="+j+"" pr("<A HREF=\"http://www.TheCounter.com\" TARGET=\"_top\"><IMG"+ " BORDER=0 SRC=\"http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383"+r+"\"><\/A>")} </script> <NOSCRIPT> <a HREF="http://www.TheCounter.com" TARGET="_top"><img SRC="http://c1.thecounter.com/id=515383" ALT="TC" BORDER="0" width="88" height="31"></a> </NOSCRIPT>   </div> </td> </tr></table></body>