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Our built/lived environment is so bad and corrupting after tens (if not hundreds) of years of anti-humanisc approaches to building (including modernism and post
by mxmilkiib 5y ago
Our built/lived environment is so bad and corrupting after tens (if not hundreds) of years of anti-humanisc approaches to building (including modernism and postmodernism). No incentives for a wider range of housing possibility, like community and social understanding encouraging cohousing or just shared kitchen/reading facilities (apart from very lately apparently purely commercial driven development I've heard about from the US like in SF).
Maybe some post-post-structural theme is emerging. I've seen developments which have elements of that, but I have also seen some of those elements being coopted by modern estate builds (like, well at least from kinds of basic informal security but without internal walkways and personal space in front of flats along the walkways; like surrounded green spaces but that are left to fend for theirs self after build has finished), and that have little relation between integrating working spaces (workshops, community cafes and even theaters, etc.) into the plan, and most certainly no indications of resident open working groups for all aspects of the running of the building almost as a cooperative.
Wake me up when a Timeless Way of Building etc inspired and the like concepts are starting to become somewhat more of part of standard reading/planning/construction. All these new builds recently that are wasting so much already known wisdom and humanist conceptions of how to progress the mental well-being of residents as well as the state of society.
If only architects took on "patterns" in a way that the computer/design community have..
- pmoriarty 5y agoHaving architecture which encouraged communal living would help, but much more needs to be done. Even when people are in common areas way too many have their noses buried in their cell phones or laptops. City dwellers are often incredibly distrustful of strangers. They complain of being lonely but few make much of an effort to meet new people or deepen existing relationships. Architecture alone is not going to solve this.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoWell, naturally, yes, it's just one part of the picture, and I didn't think I was expressing that it wasn't, so I don't think it's really fair to assume that I was only thinking of this as the one solution and write a reply based on that. New more social architecture is literally one of the solutions available for providing opportunity for people to meet new people. And oof, a downvote to 0 on my original fair-enough comment.
- mxmilkiib 5y agoAnd now -1? Dang, sorry to rub your lamp, thanks for your eventual reply to my mail about the rational for flagged posts a while back and for asking for ideas then (I didn't reply again as I didn't have one then, but saying "Post flagged by users" would remove ambiguity from that system), but to save time now; single dimensional democracy without checks and balances is what makes this world unsustainable. Please seriously consider bringing the advancement of metamoderation that made Slashdot and kuro5hin not be sucked to a place where it feels like fair participation is not unjustly muted.