CALL ME MAGGIE

Row row row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream.

In the world of architecture and the built environment, wishful thinking is in the ascendent in direct proportion to the decline of relevancy and action.  We’re dreaming and the real world becomes more and more inaccessible.

This information graphic is by AMO, a part of their proposal for a new architecture and planning school in Moscow.  It describes a crisis in planning education which they cheekily propose to put at the heart of their new school and curriculum.

I’ve written some – maybe mostly redundant – notes in reaction:

ENERGY – We are hyper aware of sustainability … and doing virtually nothing about it.  Our new discourse and methods for sustainability are sneakily designed to propagate the same disastrous planning ideals that were used to make the giant unsustainable mess we now…