ASS 3

Personally i think that the image that the American want to show of heir country is totally unclean.  They are use card staking strategy to show facts that are based on lies and manipulatives strategies. As we studied earlier the  American society is an individualistic society , which means that the society values the individual and the self rather than the group and that  everyone is looking  for its own intereste and doiing things toward their own end. In fact , i don't think that what American are  in Iraq for example to give to iraqian people freedom, but i think that they are there more for their own interest (Oil). they are both ego and ethnocentric; egocentric because for example bush is revenging his father while doing the war in Iraq and ethnocentric because America as a person want to conquer Iraq and to acquire its goods and services. In the political philosphy, the indivisualist theory of government holds that the state should protect the liberty of individual to act as they wish as long as they do no infrige on the liberties of the others , this is what Amercian are always claiming as being a fact. In fact , this rule has to be aplied but why if the maker of the rule doesn't aplly it ? This is i think why karen hughes after several tries , decided to quitt because she was defending that she knew at the level was not respected and was manipulated.

Nomadic cities

Nomad is a member of a group of people who have no fixed home and move according to the seasons from place to place in search of food, water, and grazing land. The term of nomad applied to city means the same things , but it is about the stucture and the modernity of the architecture of the building. The concept of the Nomadic City is an attempt to express in an urban form the phenomenon of growing mobility which is overwhelming contemporary society. The lifestyle of a more and more significant number of citizens is based on their continuous movement from one place to another without residing in a stable manner in any of them. They are the "urban nomads", beings equipped with the technological paraphernalia (mobile phones, laptops, electronic agendas...) that allow them to be permanently on the move. Uprooting, mobility, instability - these are the nouns that govern their lives and the urban shapes of the Nomadic City where they live. The Nomadic City corresponds to a specific type of architecture, the key to which is flexibility. Its forms tend towards being incomplete, open, and non hierarchical, towards merging with the exterior, the dismantling of internal-external limits, the amalgamation of simple elements. The materials that accompany the architectural discourse of the Nomadic City are often interchangeable or even disposable. In such circumstances the inhabitants cannot link their collective memory with architectural events; they are incapable of generating urban milestones and can only create points of reference where, as occurs in the case of the Atla Building in Shinjuku, Tokyo, a huge video screen attracts citizens seeking information. This is the logic of the Nomadic City, where there is no place for anything tactile or tectonic that recalls the originality, locality, or essential nature of raw materials.
Example : Dubai

ASS 2

Nicholas Negroponte the "indefatiguable leader" has created an affordable laptop for poor children all over the world . The purpose of his project is more educational than economical in comparison with the case of Bill Gates with Chinese. Yet , he is doing a very good job by making the PCs accessible by all children over the world at 100$ to help them to learn better and to have a better access to technology and information. The dark point in this white and positive image of this project , is that for example if Nicholas Negroponte target the poor children in Morocco . the first problem that he will face very low percentage of poor children that are going to the school , the second problem is the price of the laptop. Even if the laptop is at a symbolic price , he is not affordable by poor children and families in Morocco since they have other more important expenses for their survival and daily life. The third problem is that even if the laptop was for free there will be very difficult for them to use it for their own purpose . Instead they will learn to use inside the school , but then there will be no place for it in their life since it will seem as unnecessary tool for their parents. However, if Ihave an advice to give to Nicholas it will be to begin to first target the average class of Moroccan then after doing a local study of the country he can find a suitable solution to help poor people in the educational domain.