Description: You Are Here. Brussels Biennale for Architecture and Urbanism
This is about you. Look. You are here. In this place, in this city, on this planet.
This is the space you use. It provides housing, produces food and generates power; it supplies the raw materials for our economy. This space is a precondition for the prosperity you enjoy. You consider it the norm to have your own car parked outside the door, your food individually packaged in the supermarket, and for water and gas to be readily available when you turn on the tap. But it isn’t. You have inherited a lifestyle that is not realistic. The raw materials have almost been exhausted. Just like the
You know it as well as I do. We are rational beings. Yet, we do not adapt. The change that is coming is so drastic it is frightening. We simply cannot imagine the future. What qualities and prosperity will it offer us? It seems crazy to have to reinvent everything, to leave behind all the certainty and comfort. The future is not realistic. Not for you, not for the economy, not for the politicians.