Editorial - STEDEX '12


In developing sustainable reformation on our contemporary environment, the reform needs a wider and forward looking atmospheric notion for the entire physical environment through cultural communication and function. Cultural communication becomes an ambiguous dimension that in its external nature evrything can be considered connected but yet they are muchseparated. Culture as a subject of change and as a mechanism to reform new function is always a mere dynamic of motion.It is mowing and sustaining since communication plays an important role in bridging the existing cultural-environment gap. The human has the right to select a distinctive manner to connect and separate into relationships their diverse physical or natural environment and make them function for the humans. The bridge becomes an aesthetic value insofar as it accomplishes the connection between what is separated between realities and visible. The bridge fills the gap between the eyes and the mind by connecting the individual bodies for practical reality when they see something as visible and lasting to the natural environment and social activities as one.


Hence, in connecting sustainable changes, cultural communication confers an ultimate meaning elevated above all into 'self'. In fact, with the natural environment, cultural communication is elevated to a unity which is, indeed of a completely intellectual nature where at the same time, capable for overcoming the separation and connection in the same act. By virtue of that fact, the bridge forms a linkage between the space of human beings and evertyhing that remains outside while it transcends the separation between the inner and outer elements after breaking through the wall of oneself. Thus, it revealed specifically the human capacity over nature and his or her capability for arranging into a particular unity nature's single meaning where culture would function as a system of communication. In attempting to break the door of perception against evertyhing outside the space and removing the wall of boundaries therein lies how one can place the self either inside or outside it. Precisely, cultural communication makes sustainable environment more meaningful where the form of separator can be functionalized and set as a connector in an open space of dialogue and negotiation. These are all particles of cultural fragmentation - especially in opertaing, searching and looking a better choice in offering a new change for the 'meaning changer' - similar to what others would expect and hope for in the living environment.


Nasir Baharuddin
Curator, STEdex’12«« BACK