Editorial: Home Sweet Home - Sofia Gandini

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HOME SWEET HOME 7th January 2019

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A house is not a home but what if it actually was?

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how does our culture reflect who we are as a person and as a comunity?

DOES YOUR HOUSE MATCH YOUR SOUL? how much is the placement actually relevant for urban development and why?

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WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? The primary purpose of this magazine is to highlight how different the basic architecture around the world is by pointing out the main factors that make every type of structure one of a kind, giving a sense of comunity and belonging to all the people sharing that particular architecture. This means that architecture is no more only a way of thinking places but the glue that holds together a membership with its ideas, traditions, culture, religion and social status, an ability of shaping people into their background, giving them what they need before they even know what they actually need. What is in this magazine is an analysis of all of this differences, starting from a study of the main causes that lead to them. This particular issue will focuse on how relevant the background of a comunity and its placement is.

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The beginnings of architecture can be traced back to the days of the caveman Prehistoric architecture can be traced back to early man living in caves and tents. Since the dawn of civilization and the quitting of nomadic life people used to build houses not only for repair but

also to ground a comunity, feeling themselves home.

From this moment on a differenciation between house and home was

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WHERE DO YOU COME FROM?

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What is generally identified as the Japanese aesthetic stems from ideals of Taoism, imported from China in ancient times.

Japanese culture is extremely diverse; despite this, in terms on the interior, the aesthetic is one of simplicity and minimalism. The specific idea that a room’s true beauty is in the empty

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CULTURAL BACKGROUND

Ethnic or cultural background is not the same as nationality or place of birth. Your ethnic or cultural background means the group from which you descend and that shares a distinct identity. If you are a member of the Irish Travelling community you see yourself as having a distinct identity, and people outside the group also see you as having a distinct identity. Broadly speaking people from the same ethnic or cultural background share the same culture which can include history, language and religion.

People of different cultural backgrounds often have to interact with each other. These interactions may lead to strong relationships that help build diverse communities capable of achieving substantial goals.

For instance, it may be necessary to work effectively with people from divergent races or with those who speak a different language to promote economic development and health care within a community or secure a good education for children. While it is important to learn about the cultures of other people

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

to succeed in working together, one must first understand his own culture before he can appreciate any other. This understanding starts with recognition of the values, customs and world views passed down from grandparents or parents or those acquired from personal experiences while growing up in a given society. One can cultures, asking questions and reading. The main thing to remember is that everyone, no matter what their cultural background, has different opinions, habits and ways of life. The sooner you accept that everyone is different, the

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which are your beliefs?

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WHERE DO YOU BELONG?

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African architecture reflects the interaction of environmental factors—such as natural resources, climate, and vegetation—with the economies and population densities of the continent’s various regions. As stone is the most durable of building materials, some ancient stone structures survive, while other materials have succumbed to rain, rot, or termites. Stone-walled kraals from early Sotho and Tswana settlements (South Africa and Botswana) and stone-lined pit circles with sunken kraals for pygmy cattle (Zimbabwe) have been the subject of archaeological study. Stone-corbeled shelters and circular huts with thatched

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“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

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SENSE OF BELONGING Having a sense of belonging is a common experience. Belonging means acceptance as a member or part, it is a human need. Feeling that you belong is most important in seeing value in life and in coping with intensely painful emotions. Some find belonging in a church, some with friends, some with family, and some on Twitter or other social media. Some see themselves as connected only to one or two people. Others believe and feel a connection to all people the world over, to humanity.

Building a Sense of Belonging as a natural human need

Some seek belonging through excluding others. That reflects the idea that there must be those who don’t belong in order for there to be those who do. Yet a single instance of being excluded can undermine self-control and well being and often creates pain and conflict.

The feeling of being isolated is counter-productive for ourseves

A sense of belonging to a greater community improves your motivation, health, and happiness. When you see your connection to others, you know that all people struggle and have difficult times. You are not alone. There is comfort in that knowledge.

People struggle to find where they belong to because it leads to a connection with others

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WHERE DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE?

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Nothing expresses more the social status of a country than its architecture.

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The economic gap between the rich industrialized nations and the underdeveloped countries has been increasing in recent years even as the time needed to travel between them has shrunk. The poor countries of the world, with few exceptions, have remained poor or become poorer. The poor countries are not homogeneous; they vary in their depth of poverty, quantity and type of resources, population density, and other aspects.

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Obstacles to progress among them are extremely varied.

Industrial development in the economically advanced countries may have worsened conditions in some of these countries, but it did not cause their poverty. Many currently underdeveloped countries have been poor since the dawn of history. Even though developing countries appear to have at their disposal the entire apparatus of modern technology, most economists believe that development in them will be much more difficult than in countries that developed in the 19th century.

Among the nearly insurmountable obstacles to progress are the difficulty developing countries have in adapting to western technology, which tends to be capital intensive and to require a small though technically skilled labor force.

In most developing countries, manpower is abundant but capital and skilled labor are scarce. Modernized technology adapted to the needs of developing countries in reality does not exist. Many poor countries lack preparation for an industrial revolution and require complete social and cultural revolutions as well, indicating that they are economically more impoverished than countries that developed in the 19th century.

Most developing countries also have different and more serious population problems than those experienced by western countries in the 19th century. Population density in

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Poverty is definitely one of the skeletal reasons of why third world countries are called third world countries. If people weren’t poor, they would live well above the poverty line, that simple, but what exactly is Poverty? You could be wondering. Well as per UN standards I believe, poverty means living on $2.50 a whole day and extreme poverty is living on a $1.25 or less.

Around 1 billion of these people are innocent little children, infants. According to the UN approx. 22,000 children die each day in these countries due to poverty.

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Ever been in a situation when you were really thirsty and didn’t have any water around you? At least not drinkable water; what would have you done? Probably run down to the nearest store and get a bottle mineral water and quench your ever so unbearable thirst. Well, imagine feeling thirsty and not having any water at all, not around you, not anywhere. No taps, no department stores, no pools, no lakes, not even a river; just the thought of it suffocates you, doesn’t it?

More than a billion people do not have adequate access to clean drinking water and estimate 400 million of these are children again.

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A quarter or more of the entire human population lives without electricity in pitch black darkness as the night falls, along with the eternal darkness that overshadows their fates. That is around 1.6 billion people who do not know something like electricity exists. They are technically still living in Stone Age, no computers, no internet, no appliances, just nothing.

More than half the population of all the developing nations in the world depends on Agriculture or farming for survival and for at least two meals a day. That is almost 75 percent of the world’s poorest people, approx. 1.4 billion women, children and men.

However, the even more intriguing fact is that 50 percent of hungry people are farming families. A lot of internationally acclaimed projects are carried out every year in order to train and empower these people from such countries to at least to help them learn to live off Agriculture.

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Most of the countries that fall in the third world category or the ones that are developing are either facing heavy duty corruption or buried deep under the ashes of war. Civil wars, cold wars, war on religion and so on, are fought no matter how low or pitiful the country’s condition, you might be wondering how? Well it just happens to be the policy of certain country’s to help these third world countries at the time of war for arms and ammunition and medic and supplies for the army just so they could live through the war and pay an even huger amount of debt. Something really inhumane, isn’t it? Well countries like the US, China, Russia have these ill-traits of supporting war.

1% of world populaion owns 44% of global wealth

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WHERE DO YOU FEEL HOME?

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Free University of Bolzano - Bozen Faculty of Design and Art Bachelor in Design and Art - Major in Design WUP 18/19 | 1st semester foundation course Supervision: Project leader Prof. Antonino Benincasa Project assistants Maximilian Boiger, Gian Marco Favretto Design by: Sofia Gandini Magazine | Home sweet home Paper: Color copy uncoated 160 gr.

Color copy uncoated 300 gr.

Printed: Bozen-Bolzano, January 2019 Inside pages – Digital Print | Canon Cover – UV-Serigprahy

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Photography: Adam Friedlander, Kyoto View Alan Weiner Bundo Kim Hugo Joel, Trinidad Inge Schuster, Girl in a window Iza Łysoń, Norway José Alejandro Cuffia Jungshik Lee The Kasbah Keith Hardy Louis Hansel Luca Bizarre, Old house (Habana Vieja ) Cuba My 1st impressions, Viva Cuba Libre Sameh Refat Rainy day in Tokyo Sergio Lubezky, Any day / Everyday.

Tamara Budai Yuma Yamashita, 5am, Kyoto night, Explored at Miyazaki, Fushimi Fonts: Helvetica Project Modul: Editorial Design

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