Volume 16: Engineering Society
Volume 16: Engineering Society
$35.00
Archis + Amo + C-Lab + OSE + ... Archis 2008 #2
Pap. Amsterdam, 2008
Book ID: 80062
Our society seems to be locked into a position in which the users and voters choices determine how we shall live in the future. A disturbing collective urban life in a giant Big Brother House looms, a material and social world in which sensationalistic media and its commercial translation dominate. Our sense of what is real and what is quality is on the verge of collapse. The practice and education of the engineers of this society is determined by short-term effect instead of long-term social responsibility. Culture becomes little more than a market, politics its faade and the city its stage. Instead of reviving old school high modernist social engineering or claiming the need for an intellectual junta, we solicit new forms of social engineering. Where shall this lead? English.
