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“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
Meaning, Memory and Amnesia | uniformnovember
Jenna Guarascio added
This essay was written 14 years ago, but the concepts presented are just as relevant today as they were then and are particularly important as we try to figure out what to do with all the very intractable conflicts that are facing us
John Paul Lederach • Conflict Transformation
Gaia Soykok added
Peacebuilding tends to focus too much on economic development and too little on addressing the underlying causes that created the violence or meeting the needs of victims/survivors, and those who suffered the most from the violence.
F.M.H. • The Power of The Infra-Ordinary
Jenna Guarascio added
Despite progress in research on the rural-reconstruction movements, we are still missing some important questions related to their connective methodology. How was the self to articulate with the local, national and the global? How was the self to manage the inevitable tensions in the pull of these scales, but especially the tensions between the loc
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
Rather than transforming the inner condition of man in order to prevent wars, humans are asked to go to “school” in order to relive and recite the details of the wars that have taken place.
Kapil Gupta • A Master's Secret Whispers
It is in the collision of such contrasting ideas — the agonistics of design philosophies, almost — that we can endlessly generate a diversity of responses, and thus build ongoing resilience.
Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism
Keely Adler added
Repairing this ethic is a task that defies any straightforward approach. Solving it is not a matter of devising elegant theories or highly specified plans, but instead observing what stirs within when you encounter a piece of architecture.
Noah Putnam • The Concrete Oasis
claims that systems of autonomy can themselves cause conflict rather than resolve it.