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Boycotting this competition would be short-sightedness for the future architects who are in training today. Although I havent read the full brief, Piers Gough's article mentions the "fortification of our cities". I do not believe the brief refers to that at all. If anything I see this competition as a springboard for lateral thinking for designers of the 21st century. I believe that students are being encouraged to engage in the real issues affect affecting society today. Architects have been notoriously known to choose to distance themselves from public debate, only to then start moaning when their role in society and in project delivery gets nicked by QSs and specialist project managers to mention just a few professionals who are shrewd enough to see the gaping hole left by architects who choose to stay away from national debate. There is scope for this competition to inspire future architects to collaborate with other professionals in either product design or materials technology to come up with schemes that could somehow probably reduce the physical impacts of suicide bombers... materials that could shattter, stretch and disintegrate in a controlled manner and not harm huge numbers of people...... If Gough says "......by curtailing our freedom" I say that Gough should not be seen to be "curtailing students freedom and design imagination"

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