About
In modern society, globalisation prevails. Boundaries between cultures, countries, and continents have dissolved and exist only on a physical level, offering the opportunity for people from around the world to interact, share ideas, and collaborate in an instant. Education and culture exchange have become more accessible, and with this, international students from around the world coming to the UK have become more common, allowing students from different cultures and backgrounds to engage with each other.
As an aspiring architect and designer, I constantly consider social responsibility. The world right now has the opportunity to unite everyone around the globe with the help of technology, yet we have chosen not to do that. Architects shape our community, city, and even the globe. AcrossRCA allowed me to discover and be aware of the issues I have perhaps previously overlooked, it is impossible to address every problem we face. However, as creative practitioners, we should, and can look at the issues from an unfamiliar perspective and perhaps offer an alternative solution. Especially for me in the built environment, How should we reshape our cities and communities to face these issues?
With globalisation, boundaries between people have blurred. It is now easier than ever to learn about other cultures, characters, and people. The world in theory should have become more inclusive, yet that is not the case. Byung-Chul Han wrote in The Disappearance of Ritual, “The revival of nationalism today has in part to do with an urge for a kind of closure that involves the exclusion of the other, of the stranger.” The world is scared of this fading of threshold and perforation of boundaries. We, not only as creative practitioners but also as global citizens should fight to unite the world or to re-unite the ones who have distanced.