Please respond to the reading as you wish. Please be sure to address the following questions in your answer.
- Orr creates a list of assumptions that he believes "fast knowledge" is built upon. Do you agree with his list? What are his strongest notions... weakest ones?
- Based on your own experiences and that which you can refer to- do you see Orr's position here as accurate? applicable to current issues? (from page 38)"The result is that the system of fast knowledge creates social traps in which the benefits occur in the near term while the costs are deferred to others at a later time."
- Orr creates a list of beliefs that he believes "slow knowledge" is built upon. Do you agree with his list? What are his strongest notions... weakest ones?
- Protagoras was the first to say, "Man is the measure of all things"- here Orr attributes this to "fast knowledge." If not man, then who, or what do you think Orr values as a more effective measuring stick?
- How might this chapter- fast/slow knowledge be applicable to your own designs /to architecture in general?
Due October 14th, 2008
