Maya Notes from Feb 7

Identity, originality,

What is wrong with plastic signing?
Copy, fake,

What is wrong with fake wood?

Makes sense in regard to peoples happiness, durability, and sometimes is more environmentally friendly than other materials, so why do we fundamentally think it is wrong?

It deals with issues of authenticity, originality, and assimilation

What does it mean to say that if a fake?

Need a level of assessment value, and a position for choosing materials then it will be taken over by the client who may be moved by money.
How do we argue the value of something being sustainable?
A real value must be significant to the client and therefore will give meaning to your decision making.

What informs the identity, mechanism of identity creation? Broader, what makes Canadian, Canadian, Architects, architects etc.

My own response: I think it is created by the a history of events that have already occurred that effects the current cultural, physiological, context. I think true Identity is in constant flux.

Engaging the world from the inside out, as a cognitive processing based on our senses (very internal, self centered process)

Vs.

Gagging the external environmental influences

The issues are the blurring of that boundary,

What is our source of identity? What is our reference?

There are two many referential systems, that it is difficult to determine which reference system gives an appropriate identity. The only way we can copy with this is to be inclusive and realize that it is a combination of a variety of values.

PM condition is always an and condition, assemblage rather than discrimination

If assuming A as their identity and therefore using one material because of that. If the user group identifies with B then how do you justify their choice.

This reminds me of the issues I will have to face with my site. I have chosen this dune buggy area with a culture of people that I do not identify with. I have one judgment regarding their erasure of the environment, waist of resources, etc. I am sure that that group of people have a very different view of their identity and their activities in the place.

Do you just enforce your views on this type of behavior? Write books about it before hand.
If you prepare your ideas beforehand then like Eisenman people will be able to understand you design philosophy before you even build anything. Preparing your market.

Value or identity creation. It is not given, but it is manufactured.

By references other histories, products, cultural contexts, this linkage gives identity to the new product, person, culture etc. regardless of the authenticity of the referenced.

What makes certain things inauthentic?

My response: Something that is not true to its own original intentions, it could be a copy of something else as long as it is not a reproduction of those intentions. Our products now could always find reference in things of the past.

Group discussion:

The only way things are authentic is the way in which we process the stimuli.

Why do we even think about authenticity?

We think about authenticity because there is no general reference point for a collective group of people to refer back to. As PM individuals we all have the right to choose.

Why do we think about an authentic experience of Time Square.

Group discussion:
We no longer have a point of reference we have an territory of reference
PM it is all relative. That depends. PM talk
When you have to act, then you have to project certain values.

Authenticity is linked to power. By giving authenticity to a certain object, you are giving power to it.

As a means to read into the other dimension. Did video kill the radio star?

All bring up questions of place. Placelessness etc.

Is it important to know if we are experiencing is read or simulated?

Active/passive nature of our culture. There is a predetermined nature of simulated environments like Disney Land that allow for a false sense of security.

Total immersion is something we are scared of (Nazi, communism, etc).
Being in the balancing position is always good for you, on the margin, on the fringe
We lost how to get towards total immersion, we are constantly measuring things, we are always distancing ourselves from the subject. How do you talk about these things?
But are we really out of that position?
We might actually be part of it, but we are taught to distance ourselves from its,……. Illusionist.

True calculation can only be done from within
If you want to talk about the ecology of Disney land you must be inside it in order to understand it.

You can not escape from the frame of reference. Post-structuralisms are saying that the exterior condition does not exist. It only exists when we go back in history. By that point you are outside.

Travel

Why do we feel the need to leave? Why do we need to travel?

Distancing so that our day to day lives can be looked at with new eyes.