The Architect of Remembrance

The dweller of a city may one day wonder: “Why does my city work so poorly? What can I do about it?” My function as Architect of Remembrance is to agree that the city has, indeed, been degraded; to help the city dweller coming out of hypnosis to remember their function in the original city, if they choose; and to help restitch the forgotten strands of the original blueprint with the lessons of having survived the current city-in-shambles. The resulting fabric is the living architecture of the new city.

This new city is not utopic. It is neither separatist nor escapist. New-city dwellers still have emotions and desires. However, the new city does not hinge on the wide-scale hypnosis that generates so much agony in the current city-in-shambles. For the new-city dweller, to have remembered original function is to have found joy; even when difficult, the new-city dweller’s true function is not yet another job, “brand,” or personality.