Re: [design] The Arab World

Jan,
thanks for your summary of the Japanese concept of "ma" and the proxemic map forms of differing cross-cultural interactions.

excerpt from Sergio Missana's interpretation of Edward T.Hall's book, The Hidden Dimension, from the link provided by Brian:

"The Hidden Dimension emphasizes that virtually everything people are and do is associated with the experience of space. The sense of space is molded and patterned by culture."
"Culture has always dictated where to draw the line separating one thing from another. From birth to death, life is punctuated by separations, many of them painful. Paradoxically, each separation forms the foundation for new stages of integration, identity, and psychic growth. Hall alludes to "identity-separation-growth dynamisms, which can also be classed as boundary-ambiguity syndromes..."Humans in aggregate resist separations. One of life's important stratgies, albeit informal and out-of-awareness, has to do with what one is going to give up; appetites of every kind, neurotic dynamisms, ambition, greed, dependence on material things, security of a home with parents, the need for power over others, quick temper, nationalism, firm belief in a single religion, etc. Hall alludes to the process of identification as "the most important psychological aspect of culture," that which bridges the culture with the individual. Identification is defined as the transference reaction of one person with the feelings and responses relevant to another, and it includes the feelings towar parts of the self or aspects of the personality that have been "dissociated" and projected onto others. THe unconscious, out-of-awareness identificaiton process is one of the strongest cements that bind cultures into cohesive wholes. People under the aegis of cultural identification regard others as an unpredictable and uncontrollable part of themselves. People must transcend culture; the greatest separaton feat of all is to gradually free onself from the grip of unconscious culture."


Considering these statements, written in the 60's, both Arabs and Westerners are not very adaptable or interested in transcending culture. Is the unconscious desire to preserve it the root of all conflicts? Hall's ideas are very zen and very modernist. does a post-modernist believe historical myths should be preserved in physical forms glistening like cubist jewelry in grid system museums-cities? does a post-modernist want to free oneself from unconscious culture?

culture- the favored verbal communication of anthropo<logical> tribes?

just thinking......hmmmmmm........

cheryl

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