Histories, Theories and Matters of Concern

Dominion & Design as an Act of Care Dominion: Dominion  Defenition= logic, sovereign or supreme authority. The concept of dominion gave a permission in to set man at the centre of all things. In this sense all that surrounds us is created to serve us. It hasn’t always been this way. Interrogation of indigenous ‘ways of being’ show very different paradigms in which they tread on the earth lightly. Australian Aboriginals held a symbiotic relationship with their environment in which they did not seek to conquer it, but live empathetically within it. Indigenous Americans also has a symbiotic relationship with Earth, normally living in nomadic lifestyles, moving across the land to follow the bison that they follow for food. Taking only from the land when they needed it to survive. What i find interesting about the past way that indigenous lived is that they display no sense of ‘dominion’, demonstrating that they didn’t have a hunger for power or control, but simply wanted to live ‘w...

Diversity and Homogenity & Making Place Around the World. Diversity and Homogenity: - To read: The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman ‘The world is flat’ map shows the global mapping of internet traffic at a moment in time which suggests that in todays world we are becoming much more ‘dichotomous’,  meaning that people are searching for their meaning, history and roots. However, global corporations are striving to modernise the world (e.g. McDonald’s as the archetype of homogenisation as previously touched upon in last weeks blog in ‘Jihad vs McWorld’). Nimes in France demonstrates the Roman Empire supporting not only their culture but within this, their architecture. Behind this is another export which is from the UK designed by Norman Foster, which is an example of high tech modernism. The Moors from North Africa did the same… - The dichotomy between sameness and particularly large corporations such as Google, Amazon, Uber.  - Richard Lesplatrier, Australia ‘draws from ...