LIFE THROUGH A LENSE

When we hear a story we place ourselves within the narrative, whether as an active participant or simply as a disembodied observer. We use our experience or imagination to flesh out the words and gestures gifted by the storyteller.

WITH STORY

AS MEDIATOR

WE ARE ABLE TO PLACE OURSELVES IN OTHER WORLDS

The result is a child that is both of ourselves and of the story - connecting each with a hidden thread.

Thus we empathise and care for the characters as a parent does. We hope for their ambitions and place our own within them.

When then I speak of an architecture that acts as storyteller, hopefully this is not too much a leap. Specifically an architecture that entails a ritual that engenders a connection between those that inhabit it and the characters the story tells of. If the architecture has the qualities of a good storyteller and has tailored its story to the listener, a child between the two is born.

All this stems from the developement in individual worlds that are formed in the urbanisation. We need a means to believe in connections existing between those worlds. Story is a life rope to save those cast adrift in an urban sea.