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Beautiful Things at Our Hand

Instead of the ever alternating socialist and neoliberal utopias, we were recently offered a scientific dystopia to rely upon, an ideal makeshift society where superlative professionals of every kind would rule instead of ideology–ridden and corrupted politicians, issuing decrees based on their objective and disinterested scientific expertise. We were told where to be, how to behave, how to dress and whom to meet. Scientification (and sanitization) of everything were globally invoked as the ultimate solutions for all our current and future problems. The invisible presence of something evil and ugly made us obey the inconsistent set of rules and believe the abstract schemes and numbers, the news from faraway Nowheres literally gone viral… unending event, a schizophrenic situation, an open type nuthouse as it were. Forced into digital classrooms and offices, we were given a glance into the grim future somewhere between the perpetual pandemia, the global dictatorship, the economic collapse and total disorder. Choose yourself which of the four frightens you less. We were also persuaded that virtual platforms can really replace the real space… Little was built in the name and for the greater glory of God or for the salvation of humanity in recent years. Waste management, greenery and thermal insulation will save our souls while flow of money, capital markets, bureaucracy and spectacle rule… We have lost our vertical connection long time ago, but this final surrender to technology would be the true disgrace for architecture – community of humans and sense of place destroyed, spatial experience reduced to providing the barrier and keeping the distance. We only need to grasp for natural things at our hand and they will trigger our (architectural) imagination in the most direct way.

Beauty, Space, Thing, Thingness, Architecture

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