“Sometime in the summer of 1986, after a lot of debating and obsessing over how I would like to spend my life, I made the decision to become an architect. It was a decision like any other and at the time, not bigger nor smaller, whose long-term implications I was not looking to grasp. I…
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What is the meaning of INDIVIDUAL in different cultures and how it shapes our understanding of HOME
Written in honour of World Culture Day, 21st of May 2021 The two extreme positions one can take as an individual in society are controversial. Culturally speaking, individualism is often set apart and opposite to communitarian beliefs. From an ethical and moral point of view, the question of the community over the individual is laden…