People tend to mark cycles. It’s like we needed to benchmark our experiences along a linear path and that by creating these references, we get to conclude the beginning and end of most incidences. Either that or having a sense of what may arrive provides us a sense of control. We extrapolate based on the patterns and signals we derive out of such plausible causes and effects.
So today marks the end of another year and the start of a new one. And I can’t help but wonder if we are indeed moving in a linear path. Perhaps there really is no past nor future and we are all just constantly living in the present, gaining experiences and recording these experiences in our minds until such that this mind as a facility breaks down over time.
They say we are our memories. That our memories make up our identities. I’m not entirely convinced that identities are absolute. I think we transform periodically and systematically based on our interpretation of those memories on different opportunities whether we evaluate our current circumstances consciously or not. And because of which, when we exploit those memories, we could be who we want to be. In a way, what I am trying to point out is that when we alter our notion of a past, we are free to choose who we are in the present. We are that space we occupy in our culture of thoughts. My analogy would be the area occupying a space which will remain consistent at any point in time but the architecture or ambiance that is surrounding or building up in the area changes our perception or behavior of that space.
Today marks the official reveal of my blog site The Metamodern Architect.
Why metamodern? I encountered the term during my research on parametric art. It was first used to define a period which may come after post-modernism. I fondly associate the term to any attempt in altering pasts by forging new data around usual cognitive processes. Kind of a self-aware, self-referencing exercise oscillating between the observer and the subject itself to discover new creatives derived from the phenomenon. How flexibility in beliefs, systems, or norms could foster new ideas and innovations rather than to stay loyal with the tradition of polarities. Not all solutions should be limited to either good or bad, black or white. I am vastly interested in all the various shades of grays that lay in between opposing poles and how those unexplored territories would survive in the dying world of strong traditions.
This blog site is about disruptions in the world of architecture, art, technology and to each other. I am looking forward to years of sharing ideas and hopefully meeting new friends with similar interests on heuristic approaches, rhizomatic breakouts, and healthy doses of what ifs.
Happy New Year!
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