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Call for papers Revista de Arquitectura N.º 47.
Ways of looking at architectural sustainability + FREE THEME
Deadline for receipt of articles: September 10, 2024
Guidelines for authors: https://dearquitectura.uchile.cl/index.php/RA/about/submissions
Open technology
Abstract
Historically technology has been connected with the power and has been kept as a State secret. Until now the biggest technological developments come from the army research laboratories, invisible to the eyes of common people. To control the technology is to control the whole civilian population.
In the 70´s Buckminster Fuller, an American architect, made a turning point. His main gift to society was the concept of «do it by yourself» (DIY). He opened up technology to the common people. His work was a revolution with the beginning of the «catalogue».
From this idea comes the concept of «open technology» developed by Osamu Ishiyama at Waseda University, Tokyo. This idea is a continuation of the philosophy of Fuller and the main target is to democratise technology and make it accessible to the people of the xxi century.
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