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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)
The nature of complex social challenges means that perhaps, more than anything, what is required is a stable platform, an institution that can bring together diverse capital, talent, and strategic direction to build collaborative responses.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
any new movement in architecture is in part the invention of a new language.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind
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