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This page is where we can collect ideas from everyone in the group. Click EasyEdit to add text, tables, photos, etc.Brainstorming Topic #1: Utrecht Meeting Africalia/ArchiAfrkia
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Here is the report of the Utrecht meeting,18th of January where ArchiAfrika,Africalia and La Cambre Architecture discussed future cooperation on the topic
of African architecture.
Brainstorming Topic #2: quotes on culture
Date: 18/01/2008
long list of quotes on culture, some relevant to our work :
SOURCE :http://www.unfpa.org/culture/quotes.htm
Tolerance, inter-cultural dialogue and respect for diversity are more essential than ever in a world where peoples are becoming more and more closely interconnected.
—Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what – and who – we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
—Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Culture is the whole complex of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterizes a society or a group. It includes creative expressions, community practices and material or built forms.
—from Our Creative Diversity: The UN World Commisssion
on Culture and Development Report
I believe that strong and vibrant cultures themselves nurture tolerance and justice. All cultures worth the name protect support and encourage diversity; and justice is the practical mechanism which enables them to do so.
Tolerance and justice are not merely morally desirable ends, but tools which underpin society and enable it to function. In other words, tolerance and justice are not abstract concepts but expressions of culture in practice.
It follows that each society will express the values of tolerance and justice in a different way: for example, systems of administering justice differ very widely. But that does not mean the values themselves are incompatible from one society to another .
—Dr. Nafis Sadik, former UNFPA Executive Director
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.
—Wole Sovinka, Nigerian Nobel Laureate
"Mr. Director General, why is it that you people from UN agencies when you come here, instead of asking us for our experience and our skills, our thoughts and our dreams, you give us lessons and advice? Why do you not come here to listen first, then give us advice based on what you heard?"
—A teacher in a village in Burkina Faso to Frederico Mayor, Director General of UNESCO, during a visit he made to the country
Brainstorming Topic #3:
Date: 22/02/2008
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