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Réf.
41387
Type
conference item
Titre
Space flow : past, present and future
Langues
English
Auteurs
Mandour, M Alaa
Date
2008
Pages
21 p.
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Québec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
philosophy / critical studies / continuity / cultural heritage / town planning / town and country planning / urban transformation
Résumé en anglais
Space Flow between periods of time is always a deepdimensional projection of human beliefs. At best it can provide
an echo of a spiritual universe which integrates man in ameaningful order and provides him with essential inner
fulfilment, by the very fact that his small personal world isin harmony with a much larger reality. The conflict between
the traditional culture and modern systems of thought has to beseen in this wider philosophical context, for the controversial
issue is the interpretation of "development" and what it shouldentail: should development enable the balanced realization of
the totality of human faculties and capabilities, or should itreduce reality to limited aspects of material life at the expense
of other qualities? Should it promote an increase in quantifiableproduction only, or should it support a different type of
creativity, which includes more fundamental forces andexperiences? As far-fetched as these questions may seem, they
determine the cultural responses which eventually generate thebuilt environment and its physical expressions.
This paper is an attempt to answer the following questions:What are the contributions to discover the potential of
continuity between Past, Present and Future? By analyzing andinterpreting basic urban and architectural patterns and by
exemplifying, how some of them can be adopted or reinterpretedin a contemporary context?, how to deal with the
problems and incompatibilities caused by the impact of timedifferences, both in philosophical and in practical terms? And
what are the new alternative approaches which could reconciletraditional principles, contemporary needs and the living future?
an echo of a spiritual universe which integrates man in ameaningful order and provides him with essential inner
fulfilment, by the very fact that his small personal world isin harmony with a much larger reality. The conflict between
the traditional culture and modern systems of thought has to beseen in this wider philosophical context, for the controversial
issue is the interpretation of "development" and what it shouldentail: should development enable the balanced realization of
the totality of human faculties and capabilities, or should itreduce reality to limited aspects of material life at the expense
of other qualities? Should it promote an increase in quantifiableproduction only, or should it support a different type of
creativity, which includes more fundamental forces andexperiences? As far-fetched as these questions may seem, they
determine the cultural responses which eventually generate thebuilt environment and its physical expressions.
This paper is an attempt to answer the following questions:What are the contributions to discover the potential of
continuity between Past, Present and Future? By analyzing andinterpreting basic urban and architectural patterns and by
exemplifying, how some of them can be adopted or reinterpretedin a contemporary context?, how to deal with the
problems and incompatibilities caused by the impact of timedifferences, both in philosophical and in practical terms? And
what are the new alternative approaches which could reconciletraditional principles, contemporary needs and the living future?
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