Shifting Our Collective Mindset

Session 614, November 11, 2005

Questions from the participants:

Do we want to be spending our lives in buildings?

Spiritual connection to earth--how to create/shift consciousness

   -- to a more intuitive process?

   -- to make it acceptable to talk about spiritual issues?

Why are we building buildings?

What do we want to foster in our buildings?

Is it ethical to build buildings as we do currently?

How do we achieve unity?

Shall we continue to ignore the 98%, the mass building market?

How do I serve the greatest good?

Do we have the courage to cut up and reassemble the built environment?

What are our assumptions of the greatest good?

How do we inspire those who are decision makers?

How do we "get away" from rating systems?

How do we reconcile the way people live/work/play/learn with the way we (green activists) tell them to?

Form--what is the purpose of the chicken coop -> true purpose of the design?

How do we create a cultural environment to design for love?

How can we become indigenous to our place?

How to shift mindset about cost?

How do we quantify the sense of sanctuary a building provides?

What constructed forms enable change of culture?

How to invoke regulations and codes to leverage large-scale change?

How to understand this new energy supply reality?

Is more technology the answer to the problems of technology?

How can architecture inspire, enliven, and empower the way we relate to ourselves and to each other?

How can we work to close the gap between what we know is the "right" thing to do, and actually doing it?