so talking about i dont know what bad bad police forces beating the all so good peaceful demonstrators is ... ark talk .... i dont get that .... sorry ...

sure the topics u wanna address are important and sure as well more of the easaians are having a serious look at the state of the world and even are trying to do sth about it.

but to show off about it as u like to do from the heights of ur moralities is maybe not their way to "discuss" and communicate. to me u dont seem to wanna debate - u have the talent to kill any thread - even ur owns.

i respect the commitment to political issues - but do not mix 'em up with ark by pretending "all is ark" - it is not. all is art. all is politics. all is all. all is a soup mixed up??? if that is the way u see the world i am sorry for u cos' u wont be able to see nuances and distinctions.

i wouldnt mind discussing those matters with you in real life - but as alex said - this is not the place. by spamming this blog with off topics, u are badly serving ur cause discrediting it more than u "communicate" it. u shouldnt be surprised then that there is little hope to get response in the seldom cases u really address architecture.

as said before - i respect ur commitment and energy - i just wished u'd use it smarter.

u wont be at easa ... u should maybe think about retiring from this oh so unwilling and unlistening network online as well.

johanes, you accused me of trolling back here
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without responding when i pointed out i had observed proper etiquette.
the fact that you might not feel my views are not architectural does not give you the right to speak on behalf of architecture and silence me and push me into little corner, which you previously did then.

im asking you to engage in the full discussion of what architecture is about, but it seems most easa are not interested in this as fun and fun alone is what counts.

and by the way, taking to the streets is a highly educational urban event

lovely, thanks adam

all this stuff is architecture related
is it not?

mayday 2005- "whats going on in your country?"- sorry for asking EASA this question
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music from ireland - sorry for sharing something i thought might interest EASA
easa.antville.org

greening the city- new community garden for dublin- sorry for informing EASA of my architectural thesis- "greening the city, connecting communities"
easa.antville.org
also asked for advice from easa on this project

Six Simple and Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today and Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow: And Your View Is ....
easa.antville.org
-sorry for attempting to generate ark discussion-
the argument that erupted there was forseen by me, hence the creation of the 2 threads, 1 for 6 answers, the other for discussion, debate, argument, whatever that arose from the answers.
you yourself said later "6 - I suggest we erase this embarassing thread and make a new one with just the 6 questions.", with this i observed net etiquette, something which Johannes (im sorry about earlier spelling)did not seem to agree with

alvar aalto was an anarchist
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an open experimental project for learning about ark and social issues

another garden started in city
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reporting to easa about what ark action we are engaged with here in dublin, again part of my architectural thesis

eko grad banja luka????
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attempt to communicate with my friends from banja luka about how the city is progessing, has it gone toward an "eco city"


you say i go on about "arrogant bullshit about how we should change the world and the sorry state of EASA-community", so be it, if thats what it is to you. im doing my stuff here, im doing it in real world with people in my city, im telling easa community and im trying to get wisdom and support from them, instead i get no response bar this negative closed mind selfish shit from people like yourself.

your a nice bloke, i got to meet you briefly at easas and play some ball with you, it would have been nice if i could have switched off and spent all my time at play, but i had work to do, thats the way, thats the way i am, i cant help that

i hope above shows my ark intent, how it is wide and attempted to be 2 way
i hope easa remains open not like the ark forum www.irish-architecture.com (used to be www.archeire.com) in my own country where i have been banned
post about that and censorship:
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it will be ironic though, as when i was banned it was over the issue of raising debate about the notion of eco cities and now that story has moved on a bit

so to finish
in denmark we looked at the idea of SUSTAINABILITY, what have we learned, what are we doing about it.
id like to hear what the rest of you are up to, ive asked....

Incredible. Can he not understand that it is not this little handful of relevant posts that is the problem. That it is all his endless posts about police brutality and other injustices in the world. And that all that crap completely overshadows his few constructive contributions.

Above he calls the criticism of his behaviour "negative closed mind selfish shit". This only shows his disregard for other peoples opinions and his inability to hear what is actually said. The only thing he listens too is his own prejudices.

I find it hilarious that he has already been banned from another architectural forum - I wonder why? I also wonder why he tells us this... so we can be sure he will never change his ways?!

We have been discussing the issue "Duncan" ever since I started coming to this forum 2 years ago. It's ridiculous, it's waisting our energy and it is taking away focus from other things.

It really have got to end. Please.

Adam

oh Jeez... even though it's been explained 110 times he still do not understand that it isn't his opinions about architecture that upsets us, it is the way he communicates it - in extremely big doses, mixed with walks for peace, Irish folkmusic, evil Bush, etc...

Is he stupid or is it on purpose?

Adam

this discussion is leading nowhere.

@dunk - never seen such stubborn and selectively perceiving person. u dont engage actual discussion, u just wanna raise polemics - as u demonstrate here. dont expect me to post anything else furthermore in reply to u [as u dont seem worthy replying to my posts]. this is not the place. write me by email if u want or show up with a beer for discussion in real life. but this is NOT the place.

@all others: banning might be difficult from a technical point of view - he will take another nick and go on. i think the best is to ignore his posts and post sth else that seems more fitting into this blog on top of his attention-eager posts without replying to them.
as u said adam - it is tiring and waste of energy and gives even more audience to him (mind the new record of 307 visits today - sad that it is for this discussion it seems). So let us please end it.

aLx_Be

Of course a banned person can always sign up with a different name, but it is like breaking back into someones house after you've been asked to leave - an extremely inappropriate thing to. His regular IP-adresses can also be blocked.

But Alex - as Duncan has promised to continue despite peoples many requests and demands for him to change or stop, we will keep getting the frontpage filled up with pictures of riot police, and we will keep getting meaningfull discussions interupted by meter-long comments with little or no relation to what we were talking about. And every now and then someone will be provoced by it and all this start over again. And over and over and over... as we have seen.

This is not a technical question, it's a question of principles - how much shit should you tolerate from someone, and how many pleads and warnings should you give to someone before there is some concequences?!



Adam

adam, as stated previous, can you please look at list of previous posts above. they are not all riot police etc- did you look at list, 2 pix from mayday were of riot police as that is what happened today and this day last year, thats the ark stuff today.
last few weeks, months in fact there has been no "riot police" stuff as there was no ark action to do with that stuff, instead there was gardens and eco cities, without any response from you or many others from easa. some people like alex did participate in the forum and from that i learned about greenways and that is a major part of my thesis now, that is an example of how things can work.
last summer was political here as ireland had EU presidency, and my ark action took me to 2 events which were "riot police" things, therefor i posted them as that is what i was doing then. in fact i put up a brief summary of year, you can see how little is "riot police"
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so as stated i do think you are being unfair, do you not think so? if not, look at those posts listed above.

and regarding those "meaningfull discussions interupted by meter-long comments with little or no relation to what we were talking about" can you please give me examples where this happened?
i remember 2 good discussions, one on materials and one about lots of things:
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If your recent posts proved me wrong we would not be having this discussion now, because then Alex would not have started this thread with a straightforward and polite request to you, and you would not have answered her back, ignoring her words, with a bucket of your regular speech that we've heard so many times before...

hi irka - I'm not sure who you are or what this picture is... but somehow it seems very appropriate.

Thank you for your cryptic comment to this ridiculous discussion.

Adam

Dear Alexandra, sorry for carrying on. But this will not end for that simple reason that Duncan doesn't care a thing for what you, or anybody else, ever told and asked him about his behaviour.

His actions here has nothing to do with the EASA -community. He is simply abusing our forum to get an audience to his important political statements. And as long as this site exists, and as long as we tolerate his behavior, he will keep posting his shit here, even if he lost all other connection to EASA.

Many people think we should just ignore him. But that is not eneough for two reasons:
1 - There are many people coming by here, strangers, sponsers, students we don't know. And they don't know Dunc and don't know they should just ignore him.

2 - He can be ignored by all of the people most of the time, and most of the people all of the time - but he can't be ignored by all of the people all of the time.
As your own initial post show, every now and then he will manage to provoke someone to write something to him, and this discussion start over again and again and again...

We really need to do something and since it is obvious that he does not listen to our requests, he has said so explicitely himself, the only tools we have is to try and ban him.

Adam

I agree fully.

Hello redjade and seoidin - welcome to the blog

I understand your reasons for stepping out and defending a friend. But we have also known Duncan for a long time, many of us considers or has considered him a friend. We already know that Duncan has some good qualities and we agree that it is important issues he is concerned about.

The problem is his arrogant way of bringing this forward. His many very, very long posts about things only marginally, at best, related to Arch or EASA, with which he clogs up our frontpage and our discussions.
He is full of ignorant disregard for other peoples opinions and the fact that they might be concerned about and work with the same issues as him, even though they haven't read Fridtjof Capra or joined a "social forum".

Should we just accept this?

We have discussed him, not his political views, not the issues he is bringing forward, for such long time, many times. Nobody here takes him seriously anymore. And he's only got himself to blame for that.

He has never been able to understand that it is not the content he is bringing forward, it is the way and the amount, that has become intolerable.

He has disregarded all polite and honest requests for him to change this behaviour.

Should we not react then? Should we not take action?

Adam

So, Frederik, what do you suggest we do?

It is sad duncan pushes his non easa "friends" to come to this blog to "defend" him. This need proves that duncan has lost all the credits in the easa community. Other than those non EASA people I have read 0 posts that were encouraging duncan to continue his behaviour and oh so many polite requests to be a little more polite. I find it strange that this community is even thinking about tolerating someone who is behaving as uncivilized as the person we are discussing here. If those "friends" of duncan are really his friends they should point him to his uncivilized behaviour instead of preaching about how good a guy he is. We have seen his rubbish poluting our website too many times. We have read enough of his swearing and provocations. make an end on this soap, ban him.

Sorry frederik, this is not a matter of better understanding. Your suggestions that duncan is a victim of other people is unaccaptable. He has been warned over the last years many many times, and during time reactions on his posts become more and more intense. Myself, no matter duncan's insulting and aggresive way of posting, I for a while even tried to discuss with him, even online as I hoped it could lead to interesting discussions. But duncan is not interested in discussing. He is in desperate need for attention.

Anyway those discussions about rules of conduct should be held in public, here online, as they will finally hopefully lead to policy, as the webmasters did not take any responsibility in that so far. We need the discussion here in order to make up our mind if we need to accept rubbish on our weblog or not. If we democratically accept that we want rubbish on our site in some kind of policy, I will accept, and others might do the same. If we do not develop a policy on that it will imply that as long as duncan (or anybody else) is free to post his rubbish, those discussions will come into being. This is not a jelk vs duncan battle as duncan likes to pretend, this is an attitude problem of duncan. Several people (mostly NC's) started a topic concerning duncan's behavior disorder. Your suggestions about how bad he has been received by people is only an achievement of himself. As you should know people like Alexandra, Adam, Alex, Dubi, Jim and Johannes are not easily made mad. Your irish friend is doing the wrong thing and he should face it.

rules of conduct should be developped and executed. duncan should be banned.

Jelk NL

Cool Frederik

You are pretty right on target in everything here :)

See below

hello
just a few quick words...

loveplatz discussion @ berlin 2001


samogar art gallery @ sangria night c/o lithuanian mad hatters 2002


silent art installation "she weeps" @ lille 2004

i first came into contact with EASA through my irish friend gemma (stumbled upon easa boat @ belgium, was at easa hrvtska, incm bornholm) then invited by Johannes to berlin. it has been a pleasure to be part of easa, it has helped define my view of what architecture is along with having a great time with some lovely people, so thanks.

im involved with a lot of different things, most of which for me are architectural (many of you have different views of what constitutes architecture, for me it is many things and i spend most of my energy working in the real world for improved quality of life for people through my architectural actions, both through ark design and physical actions/ activism, i see no boundary between)
Sometimes i have felt frustrated being part of different architectural groups/ institutions/ communities/ jobs as i feel that there is little or no concern for the deeper issues of what architecture is for or what it can achieve. this frustration has, at times, turned to anger toward these groups for their, in my view which it seems is very biased, apparant lack of concern for issues i feel strongly about: environmental sustainability in its fullest sense and global justice. so at times i have communicated with and to these groups in very agressive ways, for this i am sorry as it has had the result of pushing people away.

so as jelk states "for sickness you need a cure", id encourage you to go the next step which is to find out the reasons for the "sickness", i say this with quite a full knowledge of "illness", knowing friends who have gone through hard times; attempted suicides, suffer from depression, schizophrenia etc...its not pretty.

so from initial piece i hope i have outlined what it is that has driven me to act the way i have. again jelk feels i am calling out for attention, i am. but not as he sees it, i dont do this for me or my ego (im sure many will challenge this), i do it for the issues i am trying to raise.
i remember back in bornholm when i gave the FUSPEY lecture one evening and it was jelk who was playing the little trick of blocking out the name of my then website, oraiste.com. i wondered why he did this and i have my own ideas as to why he did. there i was throwing out a few ideas i was working on to the easa community in attempt to widen the discussion we were having prior to easa 03 "sustainability"
after this there was a SESAM in banja luka, bosnia, we tried to make an eco city- this was a fantastic experiment, for me this is the real agenda we have to work toward as architects, if there is to be any hope for sustaining life for our species: the development of eco cities. i was frustrated at this time due to what i percieved as a lack of support for the bosnian initiave from easa.

it was at that easa INCM in bornholm where mr. albatros (jerome) first shared his vision for easa @ lille, i remember it very well, jost, himself and myself having a fantastic livley discussion about how great it would be; architects going back to the city and attempting to really engage with the people again- la conditionn publique happened and i dont think we, easa, did really do enough to try to positively affect the community we were part of for a very short while. there were problems, there were challenges, thats what ark is about, on the whole i dont think we tried to make that a shared utopia, instead i felt that we stayed "inside" the safety and walls of la CP, to make our own utopia for us alone. some did go out, some did engage, some beautiful things did happen, im not sure if there is yet full feedback on that experiment.

again it is odd. there will always be personality and culture clashes (not always but in our lifetime anyway, and im afraid jelk and myself have never really hit it off.
in terms of making things relevant, i remember having a discussion with the danish easa organisers about the relevance of making a hovercraft at a "sustainable" event. anyway the point i was getting at was this- about the, sometimes, difficult dynamic of human interaction. first or second night @ lille gerald and jelk passed a "little arab kid" on the stret, some interaction happened with the result of a stone being thrown at the lads, this was told to me by gerald. later the football tournament (a regular easa occurance in "safe" locations) was postponed due to trouble with the kids, a few of us tried to resolve the conflict, which we did, the games went on, we made friends with those "trouble kids" and succeeded in bringing them into la CP where together we started a workshop; "the roubaix tapestry". the cp chefs said that was precisely what that EASA was supposed to be about, engaging with the local community, getting them to use la CP, later myself and jelk had another incident which resulted in that special piece being destroyed and me getting quite sick through sheer exhaustion, frustration, anger all rolled into one.

and lastly in response to jelk, it seems our argument has revolved about the idea that i have put my ideas before the crowd and you have been picking holes in them, as obviously i dont have all the ansers. i have tried telling you what i was about and what i was trying to do, i asked you to tell me about what you are for and what you do to affect positive change, i never heard much from you about what your for.
our last interaction seemed to be @

"write something interesting" you said.
- greening the city i said, i dident hear from you after that
i heard from some easa people and that helped me, id better get back to it now, thesis up soon

by the way, i never push my friends, i told some about this situation and asked them for support as it has upset me.

in regard to my poor communication skills in this communication space, it was brought up before and i concsiously did attempt to soften my approach, make more things easa and ark related. in a previous discussion on this theme flo (25. March 2005) stated: "i think everybody has asked duncan to change his postings, and the change is very visible (not only in this posting)."
as stated later, the fact that most of my last posts were about our "greening the city" project here in dublin, which i cant see how anyone can deny is architectural, in which i was asking the community for their views and assistance as happened earlier in terms of the "greenway" discussion

i tried answering this and the unfair argument made by adam supported by his edited choice of images i uploaded to site, the reasons for the "double-post" re the 6 questions, my reporting to the easa community what ark action im invovled in in attempt to generate discussion with my fellow EASAians earlier but i got no response, so im posting it in this thread to conclude these few words:


__________________________________________________________

architecture is a political act (2. May 2005)


This years mayday RTS is passing off smootly in dublin.

The posting of this article has caused offence to some in EASA, so much so that a call for my ban from EASA community has been made. The reason is for "all his endless posts about police brutality and other injustices in the world" despite nearly all my last posts being around the idea of "greening the city, connnecting communities" which involves the idea of trying to make dublin an eco-city and work done here in dublin in opening up 2 new community gardens in the dolphins barn area. So i feel it is an unwarranted request and hope that EASA will not push me out of the community that i have got a huge amount of things from.

some might argue that the content of this post is not architectural, i would argue that it gets to the core of what architecture and urbanism is for- ideally for the creation of healthy spaces for healthy communities to exist in.

the idea of reclaiming space in cities has come as a reaction of the killing of people friendly zones to give way for further carzones.

the act of reclaiming a street for a temporary length of time and using it in a celebrational autonomous way is a hugely educational tool in how cities can function.


ideas of ownership, control, challenge, shifts in use in the urban context are a massive area of understanding how cities function.

for those trying to work for a healthier more sustainable environment it is a means to demonstrate what they are for, as opposed to just moaning about too many cars.

for many people the formal political system has become so beurocratic that it is not fulfilling expectations on healthy city change, with that people can and are taking it on themselves to get up and do something to make a point, and this idea is echoed both from bottom up and top down (see www.indymedia.ie )

events such as RTS are another great networking tools and also, and perhaps most importantly, they are social events to meet up, relax a bit, have a bit of fun.

next point- this RTS was called by DISSENT-Éire who are part of the international DISSENT body organising for demonstrations against the G8 this summer. many people are concerned about the poorer developing parts of the world and feel that the existing trade rules are having the result of maintaining and infact increasing global poverty along with the unneccessary deaths of millions each year. many global groups are against these unfair trade rules; religious, trade union, socialist, anarchist....
should architects attempt to have a global vision?
should the flows of global trade, people, communication be considered when dealing with architecture in todays context, for many yes, for some no; architecture is about making buildings and thats all.

lastly the feast of Mayday was celebrated as one of the major feast days in the old celtic calendar, bealtaine. back in a time when people lived and worked in according with the seasons. in todays world many feel we have stopped working with mother nature, perhaps we could try to bring about a rebalance.

so they are a few thoughts which i feel justify my stance.

RTS photos
www.indymedia.ie

DISSENT-ÉIRE
www.dissenteire.tk

car free day- 20. August 2003
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global civil society - how things can be in the future- new communication - 8. May 2004
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Ban - 2. May 2005
"I think it's about time we ban Duncan from this site" adam
easa.antville.org

previous call for censorship
"Delete the trash of the irish lunatic"- jelk 29. May 2004
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first time a form of censorship happened with article being hidden from frontpage and topic "architecture?" being gotten rid of:
6 Questions, many answers: discussion - 21. March 2005,
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im aware that architecture is many things to many people, i ask that we engage with all forms and interests in architecture.
for some like myself it does have a strong political connection, EASA 04 was supposed to be "a political experience" (link above), was it?
i dont think a ban is fair or warranted, i think further discussion would be helpful for us young architects.

attempts were made for more feedback post EASA04
communication and consensus- any french feedback?- 3 years?
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and after all this talk building buildings does come into it, the first major building i got to design is being built: a hostel for dublin homeless women, some of which are heroin addicts


internal perspective of main court with art wall

"buddha says hello"


building in construction stage



i could not have designed it to the level i did without all the "outside" aspects i had learned from my education.
and it does have to do with politics- who builds, who lives there, what rules are in place, how can people progress, how can people feel a sense of connection and ownership of a space, how do you deal with issues of depression, suicide, attempted murder.........

all this reminds me of a quote from gandhi "those that say that politics has nothing to do with religion, dont know what religion is about"

"just a few quick words..." - Duncan what is going on inside your head? You have just posted what corresponds to 5 full pages of text (times new roman, size 12), 8 pages with pictures, 10.253 characters without spaces!

This is a message board. A weblog. You've even made it as comment to a post in the middle of a discussion! Do you really expect people to read all this?

You must be either a) a bit stupid, b) mentally a bit ill or c) purposely provoking us even more.

I'm beginning to suspect it's a combination of all three, but whatever it is - you are one of the WORST communicators I've ever met.

Adam

@ duncan: not to mention you false suggestions of misbehaviour of other people. You crawl in self pity and selfcelebration. The label pathological liar would apply to you very well.

for example:

- what is this with this oraiste website? please tell in details including length of the joke in seconds. 2? 3?
- there was no interaction with the french guy, there was just a rock thrown
- there was no continuing socker tournament. or tell me who won the finals?
- if lowering the volume of your distorted radio results in the destruction of your workshop result and you being "quite sick through sheer exhaustion, frustration, anger all rolled into one" as u state it yourself, you need a doctor.
- if adam posting an illustration of your misbehaviour by showing your images is unfair, you need a second doctor.

Jelk

adam, in resonse to your post

my last post was an attempt to clearly present my view on this matter after thoughtful reflection, its long as i had to outline the different strands, sorry not everything can be summed up in 1 paragraph.
so please do me the favour of reading just that and then answer me,
tak
dunk

it cld have been way shorter :)

Frederik - I'm very happy you've joined the discussion. Would you possibly help me organize an event on EASA where rules, etc, were discussed and decided? Anyone else?

Just one more thing on why I still think we should ban Duncan now - we have not had any specific rules, that is correct. But he has been given so many public warnings, that we wouldn't tolerate it anymore. His behaviour is so extreme (see his most recent post) that specific rules should not be necessary to take the decision. Imo.

Furthermore, the ONLY reason we need rules now, is Duncan, he's the only one EVER who've created posts that involved into long namecalling arguments. Correct me if I'm wrong.

love

Adam

would you have any clue, how this energy could be spend to more useful matters? (maybe just slightly)

count me in. as i think if we decide on easa forum guide, forum will become better.
architecture is about communication on various levels [architect comunicate beteen idea and built object, real and imaginery, context and content] and tools for comuntication, be it drawing 3d models words or music are elusive and imho for architects is essential to learn how to comunicate. in any media. so let us work on our comunication skills
dubi

Well spoken Marko.
I trust your ability to judge completely and I'm sure you have 99,9 % of the community behind you in this matter :)

Adam

bravo Frederik, this seems to come in the direction we all should be able to agree on. I think it is not that hard.

policy simplified should be something as below:

- no repetitive postings
- no easa unrelated topics
- no flames
- no unfounded claims, critics, arguments, etc
- etc

those postings should be deleted, or in exceptional cases just be removed from the front page

- newbe's who don't know the rules will be warned
- recurrent offenders will be banned

If anybody feels harmed by this idea, speak now.

Or something simmilar such as on this website that Adam listed above. I really like the article about people who cause so much trouble that they are easier to just ban.

Jelk NL

please calm down! shouting people are not tolerated. nowhere.

I post a request to join in what unfortunatly the majority of this blog is activated by / about.
You 'the web-host' keep deleting it.
Maybe I am missing someones point here.

Someone is publishing material at a greater rate than Bamboo grows. The majority of this material which is being published has little or nothing to do with this-web logs manifesto " Easa is not an established organisation but a non-political and non-profit network aimed at bringing people together. The essence of the easa, since it´s beginning in Liverpool in 1981, is maintained by the 'easa spirit' - easy to feel but difficult to describe." and "Easa is a practical network for communication, meeting and exchange. Here architecture students can discuss their ideas, work together and exchange their experiences concerning architecture, education or life in general." . . . . so . . . . what are these 'political' publishings/ramblings. Oh ok they are "discuss...or life in general" . . well it seems from peoples reactions that this certainly isn't life in general.

Why then is this carrying on?

A scenario - EASA is advertising itself and pressing forwards with its clear agenda of creating an ispirational network. It meets some perfect candidates to get involved and directs them immediatly to check out www.easa.tk
They do exactly this - and what do they find . . nothing but a disalusioned group. Now I predict that if my attitude is anything to go by. As a new and interested member of a network the first thing which would turn me away is the attitude which this "Duncan" character is providing to an otherwise valuable resource!
My suggestion and attitude is not to use censorship!
(this is where i agree Adam you point that rules seem to be required only to limit one person Duncan. And Fredrick; that a policy be instated which does allow publishers a certain amount of guidance.)

It seems that Duncan's point is: well what constitutes architecture, its influential variables and products? . . . . this cannot be critised. It can be discussed and the discussions so far have concluded that the majority of his postings are opportunistic political ranting. However he no doubt feels that much of the meglomaniac architecture which could otherwise be discussed is just rant' as well.
I would suggest this solution to the problem.
Postings which are subject driven rather than requests for information require an architecural question rather than simply a bulk posting of images for publishing's sake.

Hopefully Duncan you will see my point. Your postings clearly aggrivate the majority. The majority clearly feel that your postings are questionable and hold little relevance to architecture. Surely you wish to publish items that create a discussion rather than a barrage of agressive responses. So do you think that in the future if you are going to procede with publishing on this blog that you ought to at least consider other peoples feelings and the points they are making.

I rest my case.

...off the frontpage. not (necessarily) off-line...

I do like this picture



Ban - no
Censorship - no
Rules - this is a shame, lets please keep the democracy
Maturity - yes please
Policy - same as rules
Idea - items on the front page only last a day unless people are answering to the post, this way the unhappy may ignore it and if it is a suitable point of debate and people are engerised by it and reply it stays there until there is no more activity, that way peoples involvement to it judges itself. The front page then becomes a page showing 'Active' discussions.

x x one love people . . . . one love!