JUNE 18,2012
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/globalization/
Scheuerman, William, "Globalization", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2010 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2010/entries/globalization/>.
The article above is a great article to really dive deep into what globalization even is. I know for me personally before taking a course called cultural systems the word globalization had never even been brought up to me. The article above is very in depth but in a very researched way describes how in globalization we all begin to take on traits of one another and integrate as time goes on less and less distinction can be made between cultures. The debate is being made that the US is trying to globalize the world to do things just as we do it and vise versa many different answers arrive when the question of what is globalization is asked?
Another odd way of putting it I found on a blog which stated,
"Have you ever stopped to realize what an impact the entire world has on you? If not, allow the person who wrote the following to make that realization for you. I got this in my student teaching seminar class today:
Question: What is the truest definition of globalization?
Answer: Princess Diana's death.
Question: How come?
Answer: An English princess, with an Egyptian boyfriend, crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car, with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who was drunk, on Scottish whiskey, followed closely by Italian Paparazzi, on Japanese motorcycles, treated by an American doctor, using Brazilian medicines.
This is provided to you by an American, using Bill Gates' technology, and you're probably reading this on your computer, that uses Taiwanese chips, and a Korean monitor, assembled by Bangladeshi workers, in a Singapore plant, transported by Indian lorry-drivers, hijacked by Indonesians, unloaded by Sicilian longshoremen, and trucked to you by Mexican illegals..."
That, my friends, is globalization!
I'm not trying to make light of Princess Diana's death. But it kind of makes your head spin to consider how interconnected the world has become. Some people are nervous about globalization. And some people are just in denial. But it's impossible to escape it--the way the world seeps in. You can't fence the world out, and you can't fence yourself in. Technology knows no borders. As one of the first computer geeks stated, "Information wants to be free."
http://yesthisisanother.blogspot.com/2010/10/vocabulary-word-of-day-globalization.html
Basically all over the world we all impact each other in someway and so the question is how does that impact design?
June 19,2012
what is globalization? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgPLn76LTAQ
June 20,2012
The link below is a pdf on the topic of Global Influence on Interior design. The article discusses how now when designing
http://www.kon.org/urc/crawford.pdf
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