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The Argument

This is a map of one evolving argument that has been running, mutating, and occasionally failing for about twenty-five years across architecture, urban theory, religious studies, and whatever falls between them. The argument, if I had to compress it: How can space, infrastructure and institutions host the coexistence of beings who do not fully share the same world-version? I started with cities — the fact that urban life forces proximity, whether we like it or not. That led me to ask what holds such forced coexistence together, and the answer turned out not to be dialogue or shared values but something more prosaic: infrastructure, thresholds, procedures. Then religion entered the picture — not as a social or cultural phenomenon but as a confrontation with what cannot be translated, with the unknown that cannot be made known. And that forced a further question: what if the people sharing a city don't just disagree about policy, but actually inhabit different epistemic worlds? How do you build for that? Click any node to force an encounter.