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architects are now taught to design houses, not homes, thus contributing to the uprooting that feeds into our growing inability to genuinely connect with the world. There is a “poetics of home”—linked to memory, emotions, dreams, identity, and intimacy—that functional architecture and “modern living” have foreclosed
Arturo Escobar • Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)
Kei Kreutler, in Artificial Memory and Orienting Infinity, reframes cultural memory systems—rituals, archives, architectures—not as storehouses of facts, but as technologies of orientation. Their purpose is to help agents navigate an overwhelming and shifting landscape of relevance. Memory in this sense is not for preservation but for direction—for
... See more“deliberately neutral or forgetful landscape being forged elsewhere in the centre of Belfast ......in an effort to attract financial investment and tourism” (McDowell and Braniff 2014 p01). With so much purposeful removal of memory and meaning, it is hard to imagine that a legitimate architectural intervention can help record and articulate the con... See more