Sustainable lifestyle

On Mahashivaratri, Shiva's birthday, a street is transfigured and turned into a temporary temple. A building is not needed to convey the sacred (heterotopia is neither necessarily a building, nor permanent). Social practice takes place anyway. Who needs architecture? Although it becomes clear to me when studying Dharavi, that architecture has a dialectical relation to our lifestyle. The actual structure of Dharavi, like compressed villages, allows for a specific lifestyle, sustainable in some aspects (poor people are able to survive, social structures are strong), but not in others (dogs have turned blue from the poisonous emissions of the industries). A different architecture of high-rises will generate other lifestyles, maybe not as sustainable for the poor. Next phase of this semester (Architectural Body) will bring on the challenge of designing a developed and preferably more sustainable lifestyle. It will probably keep me awake at night.