give the people who will live and work in the space ability to locally control the design, as espoused by Christopher Alexander. that means getting the end use

give the people who will live and work in the space ability to locally control the design, as espoused by Christopher Alexander. that means getting the end users out in the field and teaching them how to build or customise the system to meet their needs using simpler and cheaper traditional materials. maybe perl, javascript, wordpress. maybe excel. maybe bash & cron. smother those high modernist RSI-inducing SaaS user interfaces with a layer of malleable user-written robotic process automation.