The reading adds another layer to our thought processes; how can architecture act as a device or facilitator to converge debates of the 21st century?
Some thoughts and extracts below.
Often the political, economic and societal demands are considered as separate entities.
Space accommodates current and future political, economic and societal demands. Architecture can facilitate the convergence of this debate and bring it to reality...What is the role for architecture in this process? Can it take an active position on these issues? Can it formulate spatial directions rather than fearful reactions?...Can it point to wider issues and show alternatives?...Can it contribute beyond its own domain toward other agendas such as globalization, free migration, the division between the rich and poor, ecology or demands for a more intensive use of the Earth?
when architecture is a device, its products can be understood as "instruments" of general observations, as "messengers" of urban transactions and criticism, as "facilitators" for development and acceleration and as "communicators" of wider processes and agendas.
