Zairja-Thinking: A Second Virtuality for Design

With the increased transfer of training tasks from corporate architectural practice to universities, “learning” has shifted its component parts in the direction of determinative efficiency. Many of thought’s traditional schematics, both in formal philosophy as well as cultural practices, have been put out of range on behalf of vocational aims. The Zairja is a set of linked techniques that, having stood the tests of time and diverse cultures, media, and mindsets, is now, paradoxically, the “odd man out” in comparison to cognitivist models of mind and their virtual reality counterparts. This essay argues that the commitment to “virtual reality” should yield, in the interest of studio creativity, to consideration of the Zairja’s unique access to a “second virtuality.”

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.108.112

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978-1-944214-26-5