Inspirational Rant

Inspirational Rant
By: Van Dwinnells

Inspiration can come from almost anything. An incomprehensible amount comes from our environment, the things around us. Just taking a few seconds, taking a close and almost isolated look, can unleash an insurmountable quantity of details so rich in variety, that if the secondary look had been squandered one would have never even noticed. Architecture is our opportunity to bridge this gap between this information and focus the attention on the details which can so often be overlooked. The shear vastness of data that we take in per minute, whether we be conscious or oblivious is no less than no less than staggering. It is easy to overlook the most beautiful and illuminating aspects of life simply by failing to recognize, especially in this day and age.

Time is exponentially growing, its net worth becoming more vital and more sparse. As responsibilities and obligations battle for you undivided attention, as technological advances make it easier for us to multi task, we constantly battle each other in a competitive manner. we strive for each other's place in this obscure world of monetary continuity. The complex and yet sporadic personality of our temporal existence constantly drives us to do more with less; to do more in less, really just to do more. It is easy to glance when we should be looking. It is easy to hear when we should be listening. It is easy to touch, when we should be feeling. We are given so much. These sensations that we communicate with our environments offer an unlimited number of possible scenarios for us to incorporate and utilize within our designs. We can learn so much from those and the things around us if we only took the time to observe and utilize what we have all around us.

As a world, we are moving in a back-assword fashion. Our movements and our decisions should be made with consideration, caution, and care in lieu of hasty decisions based on the constraints of deadlines and monetary encouragement. Understanding the social complexities of the culture as well as the local context and the environmental situations should be key as to what should serve a community better rather than biased opinions of monopolizing and self centered corporations and individuals. Economic standpoints should exist. We have to abide by a system "preinstalled" in which drives many of our subsidized functions. The way things work now is as if Band-Aids are being tossed down from the high and mighty elite groups. We have to help the people that make up this great country. Those that live in impoverished ways. Our government is suppose to be one of the people, by the people, and for the people. This current system will eventually erode from within forcing inevitable collapse. This would segment our nation more so creating compound fractures throughout. We don't have to wait for a calamity in order to make repairs. And where the repairs are too great, rebuild. Any push for change, even small ones, can inevitably create large impressions. As concerned citizens, we should be in a state of restructuring. There is so much corruption and litigation to go through to make any changes socially from a top down approach that the only real, time appropriate solutions for most of us in this country is to attack our problems in a dyadic fashion. We need to begin restructuring from the bottom up simultaneously securing our foundations across the country while attempting to repair the roof. So what if we get a little wet, at least we won't fall down.