Needs and now are no longer synonymously valid! Vision, proactivity
and prediction are the new vocabulary of designers.
Responsive architecture will set the status quo and any sub-ordinate,
non-reactive forms will no longer satisfy The Human Condition. In a Neo-Vitruvian sub-text where Technology is the protagonist; architecture
imitates nature in the highest form of flattery: organic evolution = built
evolution (firmitas//solid, utilitas//useful, venustas//beautiful, + NEW//tractabilis//responsive or adaptable)
Piecing the puzzle together: Fusing the three elements of modern existence - 1. Natural Environment 2. Built Environment 3. Technology (as a virtual world) - and neo-Vitruvian structural qualities firmitas, utilitas, venustas, tractabilis)
Source: Self-made collage
Source: Self-made collage
An historic review of the past reveals a social order and democratic
stability that doesn’t infringe on society in the arduous, self-inflicted
hierarchy of contemporary politicians in a childish banter: more staff, less
sauce, more money, less sugar, more ham, less equality. Destroy the liberty and
crush the creative ideas. Control and deflect! They will smile through their
gold-plated teeth.
Can we look to ideas from the past for ideas on how to structure
contemporary society? Let’s utilise the tried and proven urban and suburban
form; when ‘things-got-done’ and the social order was less complicated. Hierarchy was a significantly less
substantive factor upon societal order and process. I posit that with technology change, perhaps
hierarchy will become a redundant bureaucratic nightmare of the past. We can use technology and systems designs to
create a ten-fold more efficient alternative to politicians. But the question is what will be the outcome
of technology itself and how will it influence society?
I think the first forerunner in the design and development stage will
and must be the important consideration of culture, context, users and how all
three interact with each other harmoniously.
With depleting global resources threatening human life, as we know it, we can shape a ‘counter-attack’ against the extinction of humans. Inert structures must be left behind for a new architectural organism, catalysing a symbiosis between technology, humans, architecture and social order and bureaucracy.
With depleting global resources threatening human life, as we know it, we can shape a ‘counter-attack’ against the extinction of humans. Inert structures must be left behind for a new architectural organism, catalysing a symbiosis between technology, humans, architecture and social order and bureaucracy.
