Abstract
This article begins with the analogy between work in philosophy and work in architecture proposed by Wittgenstein, based on the idea that in both cases we are faced with work on ourselves and on the construction of our own identity and general understanding.
Highlights
This article begins with the analogy between work in philosophy and work in architecture proposed by Wittgenstein, based on the idea that in both cases we are faced with work on ourselves and on the construction of our own identity and general understanding
What acts as “rice” in the case in point is a vision of the future unfit to accommodate the deep sense of change we are experiencing and the radical innovations characterising our times. This “trap” concerns the fundamental issue of time and our relationship with it and is the fruit of our inability to realise that, today more than ever, the past may certainly provide us with instructive, emblematic cases but not answers and effective remedies since exact repeatability just does not exist. This theme is at the heart of a challenging book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, entitled, not by chance, The Black Swan
The respect for reality and “kindness” towards it, even when our desire for change makes it revocable, is fragile; is it not a hindrance to transformation and change but on the contrary constitutes the indispensable prerequisite. This necessary complementarity between sense of reality and sense of possibility is assured by what is called the “Triadic System of Rooting and Projection” (TSRP), in its turn “guaranteed by three different processing systems: ecological intelligence; social intelligence; temporal intelligence (the capacity to travel in time on which the construction of the experiential continuity of individuals is based” (Ferretti, 2009, p. 87)
Summary
This article begins with the analogy between work in philosophy and work in architecture proposed by Wittgenstein, based on the idea that in both cases we are faced with work on ourselves and on the construction of our own identity and general understanding.
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