Sunday, September 2, 2012

Week 1 Reflection

Technology affects our society and its surroundings in a number of ways.


image : Sadler, S., 2005. Beyond Architecture. In. Archigram: Architecture Without Architecture, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press. pp90-138. 


Undoubtedly, electronic technology has become a very important of most of our lives these days. And interestingly, it wasn't long ago, this kind of technology was not important to the society. Technology has changed significantly over the last 50 years. It is because of the change of human activities and needs. Therefore, technology can be viewed as an activity that forms or changes culture. Technology affects our daily lives, whereas, technology development is based on what we need, and there are many innovations that will change our tomorrow.


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Wants and Needs

image : Koerth-Baker, M., 2012. Innovation that will change your tomorrow. Accessed 15 August, 2012


Architectural proposition should be a response to needs. What about the things that we want? and we know that what we need can be different from what we want. Wants are often distinguished from needs. A need is something that is necessary for survival (such as food and shelter), whereas a want is simply something that a person would like to have. The idea of want can be examined from many perspectives. Are we just going to survive? Or are we going to live our lives?



What do we desire? What do we need?





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