EU-Projekt, Kultur 2000: WOHNKULTUREN - CULTURE of LIVING
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Kulturprojekt: Ausstellung, Seminar und Workshop in Jakarta, Indonesien, Feb. 2005
BACKGROUND:
Our dwelling reflects the society and culture surrounding us, as well as the climatic conditions, and our standard of living, all influences from the outside world, which are becoming larger and more diverse. At the same time the dwellers outlook onto the world is widened, making it increasingly difficult to find a satisfying answer for the question of how to live. So different are the needs a dwelling must fulfil. Someone may need just a place to sleep, whereas others want a multifunctional home including for example a place for work with all necessary media connections.
The history of dwelling is closely related to the development of furniture, interior design, architecture and town planning. On both a large and small scale, the living space of human beings has been measured and arranged having a big impact on our way of living. But what exactly is responsible for a specific "style of living" to emerge? And how did these influences change in the course of time?
To find out how we shall live in the future seems an urgent task, sine the world population is growing rapidly. But it is not our intention to develop once and for all a unique future style of living our aim is to analyze and emphasize a variety of possibilities. The World Wide Web shall assist us in that respect and enable us to share, know, how, and experience. Intercultural exchange between the regions at the same time shall lead to the visionary development of future ways of living.
From a European point of view it is especially interesting to deal with South East Asia, since the physical and cultural distance, as well as its rapidly growing population constitutes a field of activity, posing significant challenges for exploring the topic of living.
The presentation of "European styles of living" will continue a dialogue with common force, since first contacts between single institutions- universities participation in this project are among them have already been installed in recent years.