speed culture

Thank you all for a lovely dinner party discussion and thank you especially to Annja for sharing your creative and culinary talents.

I have been thinking about spaces in the built environment that are a by-product of speed culture.

‘Fast flowing streams result in the loss of intermediate surfaces – in other words, the spaces that do not lie directly on the path of forward movement, of progress. These spaces are being forgotten and overlooked, and ultimately abandoned to dereliction. As the precondition for a better quality of life, more attention must be devoted to these intermediate spaces, the spaces of slow motion, of reflection, of dreaming, of story telling.’ (Ezio Manzini, 2002)