GUILLERMO ARANDA-MENA

 SG 2022 Myth or reality? Reflections on readings from Jacques Desrrida while sketching Singapore’s most sustainable buildings: “ The study of myths raises a methodological problem, in that ti cannot be carried out according to the Cartesian principles of breaking down the difficultly into as many parts as may be necessary for finding the solution. There is no real end to methodological analysis, no hidden unity to grasped once the breaking-down process has been completed. Themes can be split up ad infinitud. Just when you think you have disentangled and separated them, you realize that they are knitting together again in response to the operation of unexpected affinities. Consequently the unity of the myth is never more than tendencial and protective and cannot reflect a state or a particular moment of the myth. It is a phenomenon of the imagination resulting from the attempt at inter parea timón; and its function is to endow the myth with synthetic from and to prevent its disinte...

 "Melbourne's a city you get to know from the inside out - you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That's when you capture glimpses of people - eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading - through half-open terrace house doors and windows. That's when you see a shaft of moonlight shoot bright down a bluestone lane, though, as often as not, by the time you look up to seethe source of light a cloud has moved across the sky and the moon has disappeared. It is a city of inside places and conversations. Of intimacy. It's a city that lives in its head. It's a city that has winters grey enough to make most of its inhabitants SAD and, increasingly, summers punctuated by terrible heatwaves" Sophie Conningham, Melbourne (2011) Page 7. Climate and global warming is back on the agenda, indeed!  Water (3) and Melbourne council (2) sites, hopefully moving at the speed of 6.  Guillermo Aranda-Mena Ⓒ 2022