More and more, it seems myopic and even naive to continue to treat the world as a collection of individual pieces. The ethos that brought us to our current society-isolate, divide, dissect, quantify- cannot solve the questions we face today because it is precisely that way of thinking that created the questions themselves.
Glitzy buildings sprouting from dreary streets. Single use products that last 300 years.
To move forward, we need a different paradigm. One that replaces brute causality with interrelatedness, that looks for opportunities to contextualize rather than abstracting a blurred out background, and that recognizes the fundamentally social nature of physical form and the physically defined nature of social interaction.