Social Engineering
Volume Magazine has just released its latest issue on the subject of ‘Social Engineering’. An independent magazine about design and architecture, Volume goes beyond architecture’s definition of ‘making buildings’. It reaches out for global views on designing environments, advocates for broader attitudes to social structures, and reclaims the cultural and political significance of architecture. Articles in the new issue range from an interview with James C. Scott in which he states a fundamental critique on State driven large-scale social engineering to OMA’s new architectural quest in being an incubator of cultural resistance. Highly recommended!
Our society seems to be locked into a position in which the choice of the user and the voter determine our future ways of living. A disturbing forecast of a collective urban life in a giant Big Brother House looms; a material and social world in which the sensational media and its commercial translation is prevalent. Our sense of what is real and what is quality is on the verge of collapse. The practice and education of the engineers of this society is determined by short term effect instead of social responsibility. Culture is market, politics its façade and the city its stage. Instead of reviving old school high modernist social engineering or claiming here the need for an intellectual Junta, we solicit for new forms of social engineering. Where does this lead you?
Here for Volume Magazine.
