In Tom Sawyer, the Temperance Tavern is
exposed as a fraud. In the increasingly selfrighteous
discourses of 21st Century culture,
we detect the same note of hypocrisy.
What will the discourses of the culture of the
city of tomorrow be? Will they be two-faced?
Hypocritical? Self-righteous? We offer a space
that embodies a journey, a transition, a crossing
of a threshold.
We reference the にぎり口 (Nijiri-guchi), the
crawl-through entrance of the Japanese tea
house. Anecdotally, the low entrance meant
everyone entered the room in a humble posture.
Although society was built of strict hierarchies,
everyone was equal in the tea house.
To the extent that our discourses are in our hands,
what will we make of them? As liberalism, social
democracy, and its related ideals are challenged
by the authoritarian right and left, will we go forward
in a posture of humility? As we cross the threshold
into the city of tomorrow, what will its culture be?
What will we make it?
RCA Team:
Tzu-Yuan Chen, Pennie Dawes, Stefanie Misch, Patricia Ntagoma,
Julia Samplawska, Devan Skuban, James Watts
Mentor:
Steve Jensen – SJd
exposed as a fraud. In the increasingly selfrighteous
discourses of 21st Century culture,
we detect the same note of hypocrisy.
What will the discourses of the culture of the
city of tomorrow be? Will they be two-faced?
Hypocritical? Self-righteous? We offer a space
that embodies a journey, a transition, a crossing
of a threshold.
We reference the にぎり口 (Nijiri-guchi), the
crawl-through entrance of the Japanese tea
house. Anecdotally, the low entrance meant
everyone entered the room in a humble posture.
Although society was built of strict hierarchies,
everyone was equal in the tea house.
To the extent that our discourses are in our hands,
what will we make of them? As liberalism, social
democracy, and its related ideals are challenged
by the authoritarian right and left, will we go forward
in a posture of humility? As we cross the threshold
into the city of tomorrow, what will its culture be?
What will we make it?
RCA Team:
Tzu-Yuan Chen, Pennie Dawes, Stefanie Misch, Patricia Ntagoma,
Julia Samplawska, Devan Skuban, James Watts
Mentor:
Steve Jensen – SJd