EURAU 2008. Communication. January 17, 2008. Aranjuez. CC Elizabeth Farnese
Gulls BOLOGNESA
time ago I see seagulls in Madrid. I have seen anywhere in the world. Inexpressive gesture of indifference, of sorts, I suggest the most insipid of the dimensions of space, that they only talk away.
appear and arranged by Madrid in search of food outside their natural habitat. Settle with the same nerve on a Napoleon hat riding along the Seine, on an elaborate ornament of the Forbidden City Peking or in a park in Helsinki, deaf to the beautiful monument Sibelius, the most revered Finnish musician. Complete, adaptable, effective, tasteless.
We show that this is the same one world, not too big, a little further or a little more here. Gulls will on African countries from famine and constant war. With the same indifference behold these miseries and the plenty. Do not know where they are.
It seems a matter of distance or proximity, but mile after mile, the time he has left a distinct footprint in each location. The distance, qualified by time has been enormous.
The men who inhabit the south-favored, well demonstrated this, preferred to accentuate the differences before filing them and even the lives of peoples. The inertia of things and the selfish interests have widened the gap, which now seem greater than ever. Nor have never seemed so empty "gestures"-a time of gestures, appearances, looking for a solution to this human tragedy of gigantic proportions.
Today and for years, Europe is witnessing, Spain is the border, the desperate peaceful invasion by those who first broke and then ignored, even paying to avoid competition. The exodus only produce victims in the "invaders" but apparently we are even able to avoid them.
Thinking about these things, watched from the roof of my studio a plane across the sky pretty far and I thought how interesting it would be - from the aesthetic point of view - a story to tell a story recalled by one of his passengers , while another that happen in real time on that plane and occurred inside any house of which they form part of the landscape visible from their windows. So many stories chained without regard to their simultaneity in time. The same time, real or imaginary, in places as different!
Some contemporary movies have come to these stories that highlight coral polyhedral what we call reality. It is a way of capturing the most difficult: the awareness that the world we live in reality consists of millions of simultaneous worlds experienced by millions of different beings. Immensity of ways to feel the reality. Immensity of reality reflected in the eyes faithfully captured by photographers. Too often the only thing that unites them is that they happen synchronously and what separates them is their permanent infinitely divergence, its irremediable estrangement.
The other day I heard on "Network" - that "Metropolis" is one of the few programs that can be seen on TV - a pigeon or a seagull - they can eat some bread crumbs on sheet of a newspaper, but does not acquire any of the information it contains. Not prepared for that. Language is the great attribute of being human, which allowed him to communicate, defend themselves, to survive in times past and evolve the species. Cultivated.
few months ago I heard and saw a Colombian girl about twelve years, which made his living breaking stones to open a a beautiful road-speaking Castilian. Using clear, rich in nuances and words almost forgotten in Spain, explaining how his life progressed and where they oriented their simple dreams.
I was inevitable comparison with the form - too common, to communicate to many people and also of the university: a language topic and free range. Reductive, using only three hundred words. If there is a correlation and there seems, this language can be depleted at an alarming expressing the scale impoverishment and lack of ideas.
however assist to a great development the image of the world where our young people seem to move more comfortable. Are we definitely changing language? Will you leave the word, written or spoken, if the normal means of transmission of ideas? Judging by the time they spend from childhood to the TV first and then the lure of computer and video games and compare it with the time devoted to reading, the answer seems clear and is the natural consequence of the loss of direction education in schools and in families. Perhaps we have failed to make them compatible.
The word is half of that old well known to a large extent its resources. Unpacked rhetoric and, somehow or other, we defend more easily from the far side. But we do not know enough the power of images. Its semantic content is a powerful tool for any idea. What is already anticipating the Eastern proverb now fully satisfied. A growing desire for economic and political interests in using and controlling media and use imagery and evocative symbolic language.
substance of the image is appearance, where it can easily hide the deception or, to be exact, where it is more difficult to discover that in the word. The new vehicle of communication is difficult to disentangle. Have on hand information so extensive, diverse, on any subject and that this information is served primarily by images is leading a cult of appearance over content.
The American psychologist and university professor Daniel G. Dennett explains that the real power is the ability to change people's ideas, to know the mind of another in order to manipulate and this is achieved, above all, taking his part more emotional. But this needs to cultivate a widespread uncritical. So dictators have dragged their bodies. Only the knowledge - indeed, as would Chillida, the desire to know - makes us strong to discern and choose. Ultimately to be free.
would like to find in young people occupying our classrooms a generation capable of dealing firmly with the most pressing problems. Able to perceive, feel and reflect on the legacy world and offer solutions to the injustice of the thousands of deaths through starvation and disease, wars and artificial conflicts caused many times to gain influence or economic areas and trying to sell weapons .
would like to train young people capable of changing the orientation of the world's response privileged.
This would take, for me, the first order of the university's objectives.
However, the concern is that it is difficult to expect a significant portion of our university, at least collectively, seem to have fun in his only immediate goal beyond the results of their studies. These problems are not part of their daily concerns, maintaining uncritical attitude and prefer to avoid and hide any exchange of ideas behind the loud music in their meeting places. When no alcohol or drugs as a means of crossing the border a reality which, powerless, they prefer to give back.
are only a part but even the most conscientious, concerned also the passivity of action. His usual attitude rarely goes beyond a passing comment.
Exaggerated or not, the fact is that in everyday life, how important has been replaced so funny almost without realizing it, trivialize almost everything and giving the impression to perceive and judge things superficially. It's another way to give back.
Is not this a scene of helplessness, the prologue to other units and submissions?
analyze complex is where is all this, what has been its origin and its development has been accentuated temporary but in any case, since relatively recently.
seems as if sustained generations of war and postwar years of the century just past had wanted their children to imagine an easier life and freedom would be obtained from the carelessness and lack of commitment. There have been in this little example and much neglect in families.
But it is also the complaint of the failure of an entire culture of success, the profit and power as targets, which has resulted in the disinterest of young people and look the other way toward a society that boasts pragmatic but, devoid of idealism, does not raise or resolve problems.
The Seagull, apparently free but even indifferent and ethos of the girl who tries to build his freedom, can symbolize the end of this landscape.
Any change is an opportunity for hope. No opportunity should be neglected. We are on the threshold of significant changes in the University by the common European challenge since the Treaty of Bologna.
However, the news is no longer uneasy, as the desirable ethical regeneration University could provide a more humanistic, more attention to the formative and creative, to everyone, it seems you have to wait and yield to production priorities and the company, if we look at the proposed models.
Tuning Report, coordinated by the Universities of Deusto and Groningen, the former Gruninger-set academic goals for all universities in the European Higher Education Area. The report promotes a model of teaching focused on the acquisition of skills, abilities and skills.
read in the news university some opinions:
Angel Ignacio Pérez, Professor of Education at the University of Manchester states that it is necessary to emphasize the usefulness of knowledge.
Apparently the company prefers a competent young wise.
Ana Rioja, Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Complutense University, on behalf of ACME, (Assembly against the commodification of Education) points out:
What this at stake is the university itself as an institution that generates and transmits knowledge against an institution subordinated to the demands of employers and businesses.
do not know if effective training that will give us hope in this and future generations. The effective word should always be accompanied by an explanation: why, for whom.
If we analyze the concepts of competition, efficiency and skill in light of the company, we read between the lines a clarifying definition of objectives:
"Universities competent individuals should be able to work effectively in the fight for companies to gain greater market share. "
Clearly, the Europe of merchants have decided to use his influence, his power, shape, manipulate, the University in his image and likeness.
Given how unpopular to cut investment in public universities, available to all, have decided to downgrade to the U.S., establishing a first degree level low profile to provide effective professional, executive and flights to companies, while reserves, not to price, other levels of training, master's and doctorate, probably more profitable for the universities and will be quickly evaluated in the productive sector to the detriment of those.
The devaluation of the first grade-only public actually available to a limited economy - not only likely but predictable. The American model is shown to follow: Years ago I had in my professional studio in the first two graduates of Architecture degree from Harvard in no way exceeded the average level of the third year of the School of Madrid.
is also expected that, as in the United States, gradually losing relevance Public University versus private.
be very serious with this, the equivalence of qualifications announced prior to the graduation level, first grade, after the reform is, among other considerations, a huge and shameful fraud to current graduates, whatever may be said, the medium term will upset the value of its title. I hope that architects know to address these challenges and that our title "Architect", the content and skills are not devalued.
(This comment seems to have been outdated by events somewhat more reassuring but not entirely)
I find it difficult understand the old Europe, abdicating so submissive to their own history, denying their own achievements, by replacing the original rough copy, as this does not even show good health and has not been able to provide solutions.
I do not think a university to serve the same failed idea that Europe is doing with respect to those objectives set out any new answers have to offer. The University is hoping to overcome this commodified and unjust world, not a tool at your service. Are we really willing to allow this? Take this as an opportunity - can be "to improve things in our schools and do not abdicate our authentic objective. None
effective gull learn to reflect on their existence and even less about the others.
The Colombian girl, would-be invader, you still need the words to survive. Probably this is the real hope.
JOSE MANUEL SANZ Architect
Associate Professor, Department of Projects
of the School of Architecture of Madrid
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