clueless about philippine culture

The Role of Avant Garde in Developing Countries

Avant garde art in the Philippines?
avant garde design in the Philippines?
DIY movement/ culture
Pre Colonial Revivalism/ Pre Colonial Pragmatism

in the Philippines:

Design & Development
(design becomes the appendage for development work? instead of sustainability principles embedded in development and design practices)

• sustainable design = implicit?
• sustainability principle =implicit?
• sustainable development = explicit

Education, Business & Social enterprise
(do we have integrated systems built for education, business and social enterprises? is there a need for integrated systems?)

• community cultural development = implicit?
• cultural content development = implicit?
• community telecentres, eSkwela, microventures = explicit

traditional community development + community cultural development = sustainable development?

cultural mapping + avant garde art + avant garde design + DIY practice + lateral thinking & informal learning in grassroots communities + precolonial revivalism/pragmatism = CULTURAL CONTENT DEVELOPMENT?

The Role of Cultural Content Development in Philippine Education



What is cultural mapping?

theory is to application
physics: applied physics :: cultural & media theories : cultural mapping


I'm from the "Third World", why should I bother about concepts?
Because romanticism, fatalism, overratedemotions rendered us Filipinos as comatose beings.

Tama na kasi ang emote mag-isip at magtanong naman kahit minsan.

Clippings: Welcome to Eairth by stylebible.ph

Melissa Dizon:

“It started from a road trip with my aunt and uncle searching for Filipino waves. It took us from Manila to the farthest north in Pagudpod and back down through Ilocos, combined with that pellucid morning when I ran into the Mangyan village in Mindoro. I came across a tribal girl in a destroyed ACDC tee shirt atop a Mangyan peasant skirt and a bolo strung on a cord around a tiny waist. It changed the course of my life and I decided then that there was something beautiful and pure about the most primal when it is effortlessly mixed with the hyper future. I decided then with the help of my aunt and uncle to embark on a journey to integrate our rich primitive resources with the abstract modernity we know.”

Posted on http://www.stylebible.ph/article.php?id=391

Culture and Sustainable Development

Culture as Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Development by Keith Nurse (PDF)

I am hoping to find a relevant content about Philippine cultural heritage and cultural industry/enterprises. In this paper, is concludes that culture has a central role in strategic development of Small Islands Developing States (e.g. Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritus, etc.) SIDS are not unlike the Philippines. Archipelago, cultural diversity, Western colonial history, developing state.
Currently, festival parades are being created and marketed for tourism along with ecotourism in the Philippines. Cultural enterprises. Institutional. Check. Independent film, contemporary arts, new media and community arts practice are in place and thriving. Cultural enterprises, cultural heritage and traditional knowledge. Multi-local. Check. But somehow, "culture as sustainable development" is yet to be conceived in our minds, let alone practices. Why?

I don't know. But maybe, the youth should start digging up artifacts. Youth, as culture and sustainability catalysts, should rise up to the challenge.

Enter: Philippine Youth and Sustainable Development (PDF)