Maya notes from feb 26 meeting

Permanence is no longer important? Is that true? Home is where your heart is? Do we actually establish our roots and have a connection to any particular place? This could be the reason for high divorce. We still value permanence, but we no longer strive for it. Considering resale value as the determinant for purchasing property or products, our investments are non-permanent and our money is constantly being traded on an invisible market for the next best thing.

Replacing culture verse repairing culture. We are more apt to through something out then keep it and repair it.

Time costs money. Who makes things any more, we place value in our gifts by the price of the product not the time that it took for someone to make it.

We are in a non-permanent culture. Extended warranties, the laptop backing up information. Where are the storage spaces in the ultra modern home? We are expected to move from place to place and it is easier to throw something out then to keep it. What happens to the memories that we embed in our products when they get lost or thrown out?

Digital verses analog technology has allowed us to frivolously take pictures of things that we don't actually consider valuable or prescious, unlike our parents or grandparents generation that purchased and kept things that were built to last and retain their value.



Urban form is no longer designated by a line of demarcation between here and there, but has become synonymous with the programming of a “time schedule.”
With the advent of instantaneous communications.. arrival supplement depart: everything arrives with out necessarily departing.

Note: Black berry phenomena. We can do everything via the phone or the internet. We can be in many places at once, in meetings over IP phones. We may never have to leave the house. I don’t think that we will be able to work from home. We are social beings and need to be with other people. That is why computer communities have popped up over the internet (my space, msn chat, chat line, online communities).