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Awareness is the experiencing in life. It is how you experience being yourself in your surroundings moment by moment. But of all the possible things you can be aware of in the moment, it is something that always takes the spotlight. Attention is that directing spotlight. Attention is the focus in the open field of awareness. Attention is something that we have all the time, but it seems to be constrained to the experience of a thought or emotion that we have in the moment. We have a feeling that we are our thoughts and therefor as soon as something arises in the mind, we have an urge to strive towards what´s pleasant and pushing away what´s not. But the attention is directed towards what seems more important at the moment and our values can therefor change due to the circumstance that we are in, and instead of acting in our environment, we react. Meanwhile we habitually direct our attention towards so many things that we hope will contribute to our wellbeing, that we don’t have time to see that we are directing the attention in the completely wrong direction. Wellbeing isn’t the effect of any outer condition, it is a state of mind. Our minds are the space where our lives are played out. Which means that the only thing we could possibly have control over, is how we respond to the situations that occur in our lives.    To make us the director of our attention, to not lose more moments to a momentary reactive mind is hard. During my investigations of how Japanese architectural strategies activates the mind, the aim for my project was developed, to shape spaces that activates awareness. The challenge is to not direct the attention in another direction, but to put the attention on attention itself. This project tries to do this by merging body with space, or by making the mind the space.

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Re-think, Re-build, Re-purpose   How can resource waste in building industry be minimized, and the reuse and recyclability of building materials be maximized?    An UMA 5 Master Thesis report Spring semester, 2020 By Jeanette Skinnars     Abstract   The building industry is a major user of material resources, and a primary producer of waste. This is a result of a linear production process, which led me to question how material resources are handled within the industry. Through a desk based research I have investigated current situation and its environmental effect. I have also looked into some case studies that have an alternative way of handling material resources. My investigation helped me answer my research question, which is: How can resource waste in building industry be minimized, and the reuse and recyclability of building materials be maximized?    My findings result in a proposal of a building process where one already in the planning phase thinks of the demolition phase. If the materials are easy to separate, they can be reused or recycled instead of becoming waste. If buildings were thought of as banks of material resources, a reduction in taking resources from the nature will occur. This circularity of materials can lower the environmental effect the building industry is responsible for.    This essay is an introduction in understanding the material consumption in the building industry and shows optional ways of how it can be handled.

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