Random Tangent No.2

Having seen in the last few days in the media the covering of the muslim riots, this got me thinking about the negative impact this would have on the image of the muslim community in Australia. This I think was a big blow to tolerance and multiculturalism in this country which had already been diminished enough in the last few years with our ridiculous current political state. I feel strongly towards giving refugees the opportunity to find sanctuary from persecution and to be accepted by our larger community here, which made me wonder, maybe there is an architectural solution (or at least step in the right direction) for this. 

I also caught the tail end of Q&A on ABC this week with some fierce debates over the ongoing Palestine Israel conflict. It was interesting to hear a much more two sided story to the debate, but also, I begun contemplating territories and boundaries in both the physical and virtual sense. I thought it was important to come back to this and I soon realised the conflict arose from the merging of the physical territories while still maintaining very different cultural (virtual) boundaries. 
In a less intense level, I believe this is one of the key issues people have with accepting multiculturalism. The word in itself summarises the challenge of having multiple beliefs, traditions and views operating in the one location. 

I believe this is a tangent worth following and I will try and find out an architectural implication that deals with this issue. My belief is that in the future, be it through rising sea levels, melt down reactors (and other radioactive events), large droughts, war and conflict - we will have a rising number of displaced people, and whether peoples minds are open enough to change or not, will have to accept a higher level of multiculturalism then we currently have. How do we change the way we view the outsider? A fundamental question to our human nature perhaps..