THE BIG RETHINK TRANSCEND AND INCLUDE: LESSONS FROM LIVING MASTERS

摘要

These Campaign essays are spurred by recognising this as a period of epochal transition, provoked by, among other factors, conditions so precariously poised and threatening that we cannot continue to blindly stumble forward. Instead we must act with the full awareness and responsibility that current knowledge should have, but has not as yet, made incumbent upon us so as to progress towards an inspiring and viable vision of the future. In part this vision would be shaped by a reappraisal of past triumphs and failures, including in architecture and urban design. The lessons learnt can then be synthesised in an unprecedentedly complete approach to the conception, in theory and design, of the built environment. We might then live more sustainably, not least because we feel more at home in the world and with ourselves because once again relating to community and place, culture and nature.