After the bad attempt at an article on Finnish Architecture I found in my last post The Dissolving Corporation by Peter McKeith is the real thing. A report on current corporate architecture in Finland although its conclusions could be applied to most countries in the global economy currently. I have been meaning to link to this for a while, and it is very interesting reading because of the strength of its critique of Finnish and indeed current world corporate architecture and its atttudes. Commissioned by eva Finland’s buisness policy forum it might have made some important people a little uncomfortable as it condemed pretty roundly current corporate attitutes reflected in the architecture they procure. A note of caution,its a long article.
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Equally, the challenge is to transform the romance of
“an information society” – the contemporary, unqualified, relentless
stream of data and images – and the commerce-driven ideal of a “design
economy.” As John Thackara writes, such a transformation will be
guided by “a belief that ethics and responsibility can inform design decisions
without constraining the social and technical innovation we all
need to do.” The new paradigm is the more significant, responsible,
empathetic responses of a design culture.
