http://grist.org/urban-agriculture/2011-02-08-on-eco-architecture-and-urban-farming-are-you-kidding-me-with-yo/
I can't really say anything more insightful than the author of this article, which even though it is a year old, still seems relevant. These questions are always rolling around my head when I am sitting in studio making abstract models of cardboard, far removed from any real life place or situation: is our role to come up with the most imaginative far reaching designs, to erase and then efficiently rearrange plans from above, is it simply to find the possibilities in the everyday? how can we apply our pie-in-the-sky creative abilities to pragmatic improvements in our lives? and is intervention even necessary in some cases, or are the people who are living in the "problematic" situation more qualified than we are to know what's best?
I can't really say anything more insightful than the author of this article, which even though it is a year old, still seems relevant. These questions are always rolling around my head when I am sitting in studio making abstract models of cardboard, far removed from any real life place or situation: is our role to come up with the most imaginative far reaching designs, to erase and then efficiently rearrange plans from above, is it simply to find the possibilities in the everyday? how can we apply our pie-in-the-sky creative abilities to pragmatic improvements in our lives? and is intervention even necessary in some cases, or are the people who are living in the "problematic" situation more qualified than we are to know what's best?
