what we do with people
Nov. 14th, 2021 07:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grace_and_juneAmbivalence is pondering on those students who escape from Architecture school into Urban Planning.
On one hand--great! I'm all for people getting excited about the subject and it's cool to see a wider variety of people take it up! I agree that it's got a more humane culture and a better set of workload expectations around it, and it's a great way to stay invested in the built environment and peoples' relationship to it. But on the other hand, some come in with this peculiar sense of refugeeism and disillusionment with university that stops them from investing in the course and some drop off the radar during groupwork crunch-time. Others actually carry on the toxicity that they (probably?) picked up during their time in Architecture and are really tough to work with because they don't know when to say they've reached their limits.
Hmm... ambivalent indeed.
On one hand--great! I'm all for people getting excited about the subject and it's cool to see a wider variety of people take it up! I agree that it's got a more humane culture and a better set of workload expectations around it, and it's a great way to stay invested in the built environment and peoples' relationship to it. But on the other hand, some come in with this peculiar sense of refugeeism and disillusionment with university that stops them from investing in the course and some drop off the radar during groupwork crunch-time. Others actually carry on the toxicity that they (probably?) picked up during their time in Architecture and are really tough to work with because they don't know when to say they've reached their limits.
Hmm... ambivalent indeed.
