In the article "This Detroit house is being turned into a living model of cost-saving sustainable design", Peters (2016) introduced Motown Movement as an initiative undertaken by three architecture students to design a sustainable living environment through affordable means. She then shared that the students were inspired to increase public awareness of sustainable and cost-effective ways to reconstruct houses, through workshops conducted in the revamped Detroit house - a living exhibition filled with green ideas. Through these workshops designed to address sustainability and cost effectiveness, people will be imparted with knowledge of green sustainability tricks which they could easily replicate in their houses. Peters summed up how the students collaborated with local organizations and their university to create projects flexible enough to accommodate varying conditions and spread the idea of Motown Movement to a worldwide level. With the above mentioned, I believe Motown Movement will be successful to a certain extent as they have visioned itself to be.
The reason why Motown Movement will be a success is because people are instilled with the awareness to create a better environmental health through the use of technology and the three R's - reduce, reuse and recycle. Therefore, the community would welcome the initiative upon its introduction to the city. As the bottom-up initiative will be led by community's involvements, word of Motown Movement will spread across the world as people influence one another to carry it out.
However, the initiative will be successful only to a certain extent due to the fact that there are people who do not regard sustainability as a priority. Stated in the Department for International Development (DFID) of United Kingdom's (UK) operational plan, Congo was evaluated as "chronically unstable, lacking infrastructure and social services, and falling far short of its economic potential"(Department for International Development, 2014, page 1). Also, according to Pasquali (n.d), Congo was ranked second as the poorest country in the world. 64.8% of the population live rural areas where people are plagued by "acute malnutrition" ("Democratic Republic of Congo", n.d., para. 7). With the above mentioned, it seems unlikely that achieving sustainability would prevail the desire of eradicating poverty and hunger. Albeit the aspect of reusing materials available around us is executable, green technology being one of the main ideas of the initiative would be a luxury they cannot afford to spend on.
The reason why Motown Movement will be a success is because people are instilled with the awareness to create a better environmental health through the use of technology and the three R's - reduce, reuse and recycle. Therefore, the community would welcome the initiative upon its introduction to the city. As the bottom-up initiative will be led by community's involvements, word of Motown Movement will spread across the world as people influence one another to carry it out.
However, the initiative will be successful only to a certain extent due to the fact that there are people who do not regard sustainability as a priority. Stated in the Department for International Development (DFID) of United Kingdom's (UK) operational plan, Congo was evaluated as "chronically unstable, lacking infrastructure and social services, and falling far short of its economic potential"(Department for International Development, 2014, page 1). Also, according to Pasquali (n.d), Congo was ranked second as the poorest country in the world. 64.8% of the population live rural areas where people are plagued by "acute malnutrition" ("Democratic Republic of Congo", n.d., para. 7). With the above mentioned, it seems unlikely that achieving sustainability would prevail the desire of eradicating poverty and hunger. Albeit the aspect of reusing materials available around us is executable, green technology being one of the main ideas of the initiative would be a luxury they cannot afford to spend on.
To conclude, Motown Movement is more of a success rather than failure. The number of partners they are collaborating with is increasing and with the help of publications from renown news firms it will definitely stand a chance to fulfill its goal of "fighting against climate change" and sharing "knowledge with people around the world"(The Motown Movement Partner Information, 2016, page 6).
Source:
Congo, Democratic Republic Of | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger Worldwide. Wfp.org. Retrieved 24 September 2016, fromhttps://www.wfp.org/countries/congo-democratic-republic-of
Department for International Development. (2014). Operational Plan 2011-2016 DFID Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) (p. 5). Retrieved 24 September 2016, from GOV.UK:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/389482/DRC_Operational_Plan.pdf
Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources. (2015). Sustainable Singapore Blueprint 2015 (p. 11). Retrieved 24 September 2016, from Sustainable Singapore Blueprint 2015: http://www.mewr.gov.sg/ssb/files/ssb2015.pdf
Pasquali, V. Global Finance Magazine - The Poorest Countries in the World. Global Finance Magazine. Retrieved 28 September 2016, from https://www.gfmag.com/global-data/economic-data/the-poorest-countries-in-the-world?page=12
Peters, A. (2016). This Detroit House Is Being Turned Into A Living Model Of Cost-Saving Sustainable Design. Retrieved 21 September 2016, from https://www.fastcoexist.com/3061563/world-changing-ideas/this-detroit-house-is-being-turned-into-a-living-model-of-cost-saving-s
The Motown Movement Partner Information. (2016) (1st ed., p. 6). Retrieved 5 October 2016, from http://themotownmovement.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/The-Motown-Movement-Partner-Information-June-2016-English.pdf
