جدیت من و پست مدرنیتی

من برام تشخیص داده شده که دچار جدیت مزمن هستیم وسخت نگرفتن زندگی برام تجویز شده....این اولین تلاشمه...

Better or More

Andre Gorze in Ecology and Freedom argues:
"The link between more and better has now been broken. Better may now mean less. Creating as few needs as possible, satisfiying them with the smallest possible expenditure and materials, energy, and work, and imposing the least possible burden on the environment."


Loblolly House from KieranTimberlake Associates

Search for Answers

My mind is full of questions and it constantly seeks answers. Looking for answers could be very exhaustive.
This part of Richard Norgaard preface for his book Development Betrayed, resonates so much which how I have been feeling recently:

"While my research for coherence has led to fewer and fewer answers, I have become increasingly comfortable without them. In place of answers, I have developed an even greater faith in thinking. More importantly, I better understand the importance of sharing. [...] I do not think any one way of thinking will ever be right. Indeed, right thinking is a wrong concept."

Deep-Ecology

"There is enough in the world for everybody's need, but not enough for anybody's greed."
Mahatma Gandi

غر درسی

I revisited my nag! :o)

Retrospective philosophical look at my architectural expreince

I am reading about political ecology and it makes my mind to spin:

Where does the social responsibility take me? Can I be an architect and design buildings again? What was it that made me uncomfortable to be only an architect in the first place? Why did I feel I don’t have enough means to make a change? How come I have had a hard time feeling that I am serving the ‘HUMANITY’ when I was working in the design field? Why did I feel a pain in my heart when I was in a design team for a building which was a means to extract great amount of resources, contribute to environmental and social ill and even wouldn’t offer a healthy environment for its occupants? How could I care if my designs are of the best quality but are inspired by bottom line oriented clients and not to serve the real needsof the society? What is it that makes me restless, push me forward to explore more?

What is my social responsibility? How can I be a contributor to the better good?

Relation Between fertility Rate and Education in Women

I am reading an articles from Lester R. Brown. In his chapter about stabilizing population by reducing fertility he has his controversial and very Western way of looking at the problem. However, I want to share with you one part of his article. He cites Lawrence Summers (Yep the same guy who was Harvard's president and his controversial speech about female brain cost him resignation from Harward) that argues: "each additional year of female education reduces fertility by roughly 10%." Consider this is told in relation to developing and under-developed countries and "education" indicated here is the basic and elementary education rather than higher education.
But, looking at it out of context and having a humorous view we can conclude that we've been 120% less fertile when we got our high school diploma. Lets not think of our B.S and M.S. !!!