[Vision2020] Here & There

mark seman baukunst at moscow.com
Thu Dec 18 04:16:58 PST 2008


To those people who in my earlier post perceived a symbol of our
contemporary visual language (which you likely first observed as a
youth), or for that matter any others, I encourage you to participate
in an new process of not only visualization, but of the "experience"
of the development of your built environment.  Of learning what your
(our) contemporary culture is saying.  [What IS our climate saying?
What is our infrastructure saying?  What are we saying to/with our
communities?]  In this specific case it has to do with the development
of one acre of land.  The timing is flexible and the process has been
ongoing for years.  There is no end, it is the journey.  [more of this
will come in the future as I have time to devote]

Concurrently, I am using this forum for my own purposes to generate
connection and synchronicity here.  To some extent my effort has a
focus on the Palouse (Moscow, more specifically; and one acre of land,
more generally), but it's even more focused locally in AZ.  Prescott
does not have much use of the social technology that many other more
"sophisticated" societies do.  I'm using some of Moscow's online
community dialogue to indoctrinate (actually educate) my local
colleagues in more "progressive" strategies.  This place (AZ state)
has seen high influx and exponential growth and now has the resulting
negative turmoil of such malignant expansion.  Now is the time for its
re-adjustment and a re-engagment with a more sustainable flow and
drawing on its human (community) resources.

Here, residential-related sectors have a most serious and acute
stenosis, most others markets (tourism, retail, and such) will
continue to struggle & survive.  Those with enough "sophistication"
(higher education, government, financials, etc) will know what they're
doing, continue at a modest pace, strategically metering their
expeditures while also being creative in maximizing their eventual
return from those academic &/or economic investments.  Infrastructure
is a key element, more frequently meaning: maintain and repair what
you have and don't build new if you don't have to.  The conservation
of resources, but simultaneously not leaving out strategic planning
for the extended future.  There is likely some area for improved
efficiency that outweighs our trashing existing consumables [re:
resources.]  Maybe there's a way to strategically weave that trash
into the community fabric - as a enhancement rather than a landfill
by-product?  Maybe it's about what WE want to put ON, IN, UNDER, or
OVER our land?

I love NAKED land.  It's so pure.  So virgin and fragile [even as most
of us know what Mother Earth has gone through her life - w/ asteroids
and massive obliteration of ecosystems].  She is easily altered [ants
can move Earth], yet seeming infinitely resilient to catastrophy,
having thousands of millennia to recover and regain a harmonic, though
continually evolving, symbiology.

So it's with my utmost reverence for every square foot of land that I
destroy, through my man-made environments, that I also seek to make a
readable language that furture generations will understand and have a
reverence for that is at least as equal as mine.  If they "need" to
destroy it, they are also "aware" of their need.

Anyone's efforts will have near-term ROI, while others are more
spreadout over Time.  The strategic ones even hedge some of their bets
to be positioned for their next big wave in the future.  As with
surfing, without this acceleration and having the momentum to make the
"ride," one has to ask, "Where's the fun?"  They might consider, "It's
not about the final ride-out onto shore, but rather the whole
surfing-process."  It's the pomp and circumstance, of ceremony,
weather, technology, community, the sand between your toes, and the
Woody's, or spending gas money so you can have fun not needing gas to
propel yourself forward on a foil bouyed upon a liquid.

It's the Partnership and Collaboration in the Creative process.
Knowing that the process destroys as it creates, but with the hope
that it creates more out of less, or at least it is/was FUN.


Mark


p.s. - I applaud Linda, Aly, Nancy and Judy in their recent efforts to
engage the community in dialogue and to offer a synopsis of that
citizens' discussion to the upper levels of government.  There is a
harmony in their efforts that is seeking further resonance.  Without
it, at least they've done their part for synchronicity.  With it they
could resonate as far as Washington [DC (not just Pullman)] and even
beyond.  Sincere Kudos!



mark.r.seman.architect

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