CYBERSPACE AND ITS NETWORKS AS A TOOL FOR SUSTAINABILITY

PROMOTING CROSS CULTURAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN REGIONAL TOWNS FROM DIFFERENT CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS

Wajima_Japan Lahijan_Iran

Newman_Australia

Centralised State Structure - Town Hall at periphery of the network

RATHER THAN ONE TOWN HALL TO SUSTAIN CHANGES FROM THE PASSAGE OF TIME, 3 REGIONAL TOWNS WITH LOCAL SPECIFICITIES AND INTERDEPENDENT DESTINIES ON THE GLOBAL SCALE ARE INTERCONNECTED THROUGH THEIR TOWN HALL WHICH ACTS AS AN INTERFACE TO PROMOTE BOTH LOCAL IDENTITY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE. DIGITALLY CONNECTED EACH TOWN HALL IS THE RECIPIENT OF EACHOTHERS CONTENT AND BUILD A SHARED HISTORY. THE CONTENT IS PROVIDED BY LOCAL GROUPS AND INDIVIDUALS THROUGH DIGITAL MEDIA FACILITIES, RECORDING OLD AND NEW TRADITIONS. THE FACADE OF THE TOWN HALL IS INTERACTIVE, PROJECTIVE, REFLECTIVE AND RECEPTIVE. IT WOULD ALLOW INDIVIDUALS TO INFORMALLY TALK TO EACH OTHER AND LEARN FROM THE OTHER CULTURE. THE SURROUNDING OF THE TOWN HALL FROM wAJIMA CAN BE DISPLAYED IN REAL TIME IN NEWMAN. FURTHER, THE FACADE ALSO PROVIDES A DIFFERENT ASSESSMENT OF CHANGE PROVIDING IMAGES OF THINGS PAST REVEALING THE CHANGES WHICH REMAIN UNNOTICED ON AN EVERYDAY BASIS.

Internet Network Structure - No centre - Nodes are interconnected - each nodes can survive through the other.

SITE 1 - Wajima - Japan

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