11 November 2011

Small is still beautiful

A fine breezy morning and a brisk run by the loch.
Perhaps it was just me, but the 1970s seemed a decade of contradictory ideas, with style vying with substance in a confusing tangle. As a student of architecture this was made manifest in a curriculum which tried to combine the grandiose, the mechanistic, the mass-produced, and the modest & hand-knitted, in an incoherent stew with occasional highlights of excellence, such as E F Schumacher’s prophetic book.
Thirty five years later, the Occupy protests are re-setting the agenda of challenging global and corporate capitalism in all its de-humanising forms, and it is good to see the book in the spotlight again (ref). Maybe this time more people will listen. 

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