RE-CONNECT Sustainable Community

Competition 1st Place COMPETITION INFO

Our built environment is designed for the individual; our predominant culture has no perceived need for community. However, there is a sub-cultural crosscurrent that realizes that no matter what the motivations might be, fear, fashion, or freedom, change is imperative. Designing buildings is challenging; designing new cultural values, even more so. The Grid of Authority and its entanglements of socio cultural hegemony will struggle to maintain the status quo; the catalytic vanguard committed to personal responsibility and collective action will fight to change these paradigms and neutralize all power relationships, one level at a time.

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