Sam Kebbell -"meme" lecture in Tusculum
Lecturer Sam Kebbell was invited to speak to the NSW chapter of the Royal Australian Institute of Architecture in Sydney during July, as part of a series of lectures by guests of the institute and Sam Crawford Architects, based in Sydney. Kebbell spoke about his own work in relation to a question posed to speakers on the relevance of "memes" in contemporary architecture.
( /ˈmiːm/; meem) is "an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or other imitable phenomena. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self‐replicate, mutate and respond to selective pressures. (Source: Wikipedia)
For artists of a particular city the meme may be the use of certain materials or motifs, for teenagers the clothes that they wear or the music that they listen to, for chefs it might be certain ingredients or methods, for dogs and their owner’s certain facial expressions, for cyclists the bikes that they ride. It happens globally. It happens locally.