This article makes obvious the cultural predicament which we are faced with on an ever-increasing level. Affected by the overwhelming ramifications of this kind of lifestyle it seems tenuous to suggest such a simplistic reaction as this but....
I feel presently that, largely due to our image-driven culture, we have become estranged from the process of making and the consequences that accompany it. We favour our vision as a vehicle of communication, understand meaning through sight and accept possession through image. The realm of the image is so easily deceptive and contrived, yet simultaneously so convincing, that we are repeatedly forced to wonder whether we actually do believe something or not. Through the emphasis of this one (uncertain) mode of sensing over the remaining, it seems plausible that we could be incorrectly understanding our environment.
So I propose that if we were to place materials into the hands of students, and were to encourage a less product based education, that the flimsiness of the image could perhaps become more apparent, and the seductive value of the tactile and temoporal realms could lead to a more comprehensive understanding of what is valuable. This seems appropriate to architecture as well. If it is too image based at present, perhaps this is because of this sensory imablance mentioned earlier.
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What does it mean to have something that only has value for a certain amount of time, how can we understand value? In terms of purchasing things at Wal-Mart there value is in the fact that they are cheap and readily available but they lose their value shortly after purchased. Products are designed to break so that thet have to be re-purchased over an over. We are estranged from the act of production we either put time into things or put money into things that other people put time into, we are basically buying and selling time.
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