‘He had gone barely half a mile when he met a lame Fox and a blind Cat, walking together like two good friends. The lame Fox leaned on the Cat, and the blind Cat let the Fox lead him along, so that no one knew who was helping whom.’
From The Adventures of Pinocchio, by C. Collodi

To offer support is an act of generosity; it allows and makes provision for something new to occur. Support is about the how rather than the what, the means over the end; it is critical to how things link and work together towards change. A support structure is an invitation.

Relating to specific notions of support, scaffolding is a temporary framework used to support people and material, an obvious visible example of support structures; scaffolding occurs before as well as after the building, or the making of architecture, and exists right against it in an uncomfortable proximity, right next to it but never within, so that it touches and cooperates from a certain exterior or without. Scaffolding can hold a building and a city together, on the brink of impendent disaster and collapse.