MANIFESTO Stories ground people in culture, (and remove the alienation that causes aggression) stimulate their imagination, (and therefore improve the capability to change) teach them about themselves and connect them with each other. Stories are a vital element of society. The world is collapsing while the Artists twiddle their thumbs in the museums. Step into the world. Into the private worlds of individuals. Share your vision. Connect. Connect. Communicate. NETWORK ARCHITECTURE, NETWORK CITIES, NETWORK CULTURE…. MEMORIES: CONNECTS THE PAST Memories can be constructed for words or things: things being what is to be remembered, and words being the precise set of words to be used in presenting them. One would be mastery of the subject, while the other would allow reliable presentation of a speech. It is most desirable to have both. To summarize, one aspect of the Art of Memory is the use of external structures to systematize material. These structures may seem unrelated and arbitrary to us, and they may seem overly tied to authoritarian or rote systems of knowledge, but once understood, it is clear that they perform familiar and contemporary functions: 1. to provide concept mappings of the varied items under inspection, and to transform them from a collection into an interrelated system, 2. to give that system a unity or identity so that it can be discussed both by analysis, and with reference to other systems or objects, 3. to provide for the significance of that system in a larger scheme of things, 4. finally, by presenting images, ideas are given unity in a clear and concrete tangible existence. These four aspects support the more general approach of creating memorabilty through intelligibility. These memories could be translated into a piece of art or images. These memories could be portrayed through art and architecture, so as to bring people together and create a platform for interaction, exchange of ideas, cultures and tradition and also share their emotions. Memories and stories once said become a part of one’s life and makes a place in him for his lifetime. When displayed it through various means of expressions, makes it easier for people to connect. Artists makes their mark in displaying these stories and getting it translated to live images and structures and helping people to get closer. Art and Architecture thus becomes an important element for networking. Museum instead of being circumscribed in a geometrical location, is now everywhere, like a dimension of itself. Museum is a process as well as a structure, it is a creative agency as well as a ‘contested terrain’. Museums negotiate nexus between cultural production and consumption, and between expert and lay knowledge. Sections are created by weaving, superposition and overlapping, rather than through stacking. •Programmatic Mixing: Complex interactive events unfolding in time and involve movement, connectivity and exchange. •Global Interchange: Patches and corridors that form larger networks of nodes and paths, that allow communication, interaction and adaptation. •Formal Complexity: A radically horizontal, field-like urbanism, with infinite geometric patterns as spatial concepts. These topographies that are folded, warped, bent or striated. •Digital and Evolutionary Process: A loosely structured frameworks that grows in and changes over time. These are immersive environments, diagrams subject to only partial control. Architects role as a curator, to get all of these aspects of the past and the future under one roof , which is accessible to all the individuals and which will help them reconnect to the world. The site I chose was New York, since New York has preeminently been the capital of American liberty, the freest city of the nation - its largest, most diverse, its most economically ambitious, and its most open to the world. It was also, paradoxically, for more than two centuries, the capital of American slavery. Paradoxically, New York was also, from the start, a center for efforts to abolish slavery. SLAVERY IN NEW YORK also tells the story of how the black population began to plant its cultural roots, producing a rich legacy of poetry, art, music and literature in the face of adversity while at the same time, actively resisting injustice. And New York being the Land of Diversity also reinforces the site for having cultural awareness. The project creates a platform for the juxtaposition of different cultures under one roof. Pavilions are decentralized and deployed over a stretch of lower Manhattan, creating spaces with multiple narratives. The stretch starts from World Trade Centre and ends at Battery park, having pavilions at Trinity Church, Bowling Green Park and Battery Park. These forms the major pavilions which inhibit different activities and are supported by having exhibition displays, island displays for urban artifacts and screens for live documentaries.