Imaging an E-future: Education as a Process Towards Understanding

Abstract

Education is the vital tool for understanding the complexities of living within social structures—regardless of scale. Traditions that shaped the infrastructure of ancient communities leave a residue presence today in architectural, cultural, economic and political values and practices. The past helps us comprehend the rapid changes to the space, place and environment interactions associated with transport and communications developments. Nowadays time-space compression is reorganising our global networks and commodity flows. Understanding events in the twenty-first century requires communities to adjust but preserve their collective memory.