Shree: Experience

 

Shree: Experience

best place is that where there seems a natural movement of all elements from climate to materials to people to landscape - everyone is allowed to grow and nourish one another. how can we bring this feeling in our life and design? should we be so occupied and compartmentalized that we shut out climate, people, culture and history and our own core and thoughts and feelings? in other words should thoughts and feelings that seem to include everything suddenly turn into disconnected fragments? by not observing  the self or witnessing the self, we hurt ourselves eventually. history of humanity (at least in some parts of the world) may be seen how experiences (of environment, architecture, landscape and so on) have changed from community perspective to individual perspective to fragmentary perspective  - maybe there still exists some people where community perspective or a wholesome perspective still lingers?

can creativity or the making of "forms" as containers or generators of experiences be seen from this perspective? can experiences have a component of past or collective ideas or environment or community engagement or place making and so on? do these enhance the aspect of shared experiences? from this angle, do mythologies work? do folk tales work? do artistic attitudes work in creating such environments?

we probably are at the brink of annihilating ourselves by giving complete control to AI. visual environments may be sterile, cold, grays, clean but the experiences they may indicate would be alienation. the hell with such systems that compartmentalize, become bureaucratic and cumbersome and discourage for any interaction or change all in the name of production and privacy and "individual" freedom. the hell with space and time that feels alienated and does not allow oneself to just "be" and compels one to be sophisticated (or politically correct).

all is one - mindscape to systems to environment to built forms. each one affects the other or in other words, the same nature of vibrations is reflected either as thoughts or as forms or as built environment or as systems or anything else. therefore, as much as architecture may seem important, the activities and the systems that generate an experience within the forms also become important. a "box" is a box - but it might either feel as heaven or as a prison depending on what experience does it generate by host of factors. in the end, experience is all that matters (as an aspect of existence).

we talk of architecture as the container of experience but actually "motion" or "manifestation" becomes the container of experience.

Hari Om.