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23/03/2020 | EDITORIAL

THE NEW RESPONSIBILITY OF ARCHITECTS

Posted by: Gisella Borioli

Honestly, I too believe that once this health emergency is over (but will it ever really end?) we will all be more vulnerable and in danger. We have understood that it is not only the third world war, already touched on several times to threaten us.
Nor is Islamic and international terrorism frightening us.
Nor the delinquency that they tell us in decrease but that when it touches you it still terrifies you.
Nor the mass invasions of the world's poor who flee from impossible countries.
Nor the "climate change" with all the dark and real threats brought back to consciousness by Greta Thunberg.
Nor the coronavirus that an unheard Bill Gates had predicted four years ago and that only now goes around the net.
Nor the unstoppable drought that burns lives, the devastating Australian fires, the tsunamis that sweep everything under a wave ...

Honestly, I too believe that once this health emergency is over (but will it ever really end?) we will all be more vulnerable and in danger. We have understood that it is not only the third world war, already touched on several times to threaten us.
Nor is Islamic and international terrorism frightening us.
Nor the delinquency that they tell us in decrease but that when it touches you it still terrifies you.
Nor the mass invasions of the world's poor who flee from impossible countries.
Nor the "climate change" with all the dark and real threats brought back to consciousness by Greta Thunberg.
Nor the coronavirus that an unheard Bill Gates had predicted four years ago and that only now goes around the net.
Nor the unstoppable drought that burns lives, the devastating Australian fires, the tsunamis that sweep everything under a wave as high as a mountain, the earthquakes that disrupt the earth and engulf people.
Nor a hypothetical global blackout that would destroy all our certainties of evolved, hyper-connected, travelers, globalized peoples.
We will all be more and more in ever greater danger because these threats can materialize one at a time or perhaps even more together. And other calamities, known or unknown.
We need new heroes, visionaries, future seers who can build a safer world, as far as possible. We don't need fake news or social charlatans. We need architects, designers, engineers, urban planners, scientists, researchers, computer scientists, doctors, sociologists and others who hold power knowledge and experience to work together to build, and protect, cities and nature. We also need competent and prudent politicians to regulate everything - but here we know it's difficult -, visionary and reliable leaders. We need not-collapsing skyscrapers, houses that protect, ultra-efficient hospitals, unpolluting means of transport, bridges that don't collapse, omniscient control systems, vegetable gardens, gardens, woods, forests that guarantee us . And so much more.
We start asking architects, who are holding our cities and turning them into science fiction scenarios. Already today buildings caress the clouds, the walls are waves of glass and steel that defy the rules of statics, roofs and facades are parametric laces, air-conditioned transparent domes are the sky of parks, houses, transport and public spaces that coexist in this artificial environment as in a real Truman Show. Architecture became mission, it became art, it became science.
And what about design? We will ask design to be less frivolous and more substantial, less ego-centric, without sacrificing beauty, emotions,
 the stories he can tell, the functions he can invent. We will ask him to respond to everyone's desires and needs, to be both exclusive and democratic, so that no one feels excluded.
I wish the third millennium, so dramatically begun, could learn from this cruel lesson of an unknown virus that is killing him to be better, wiser and more forward-looking. Able to listen to the Cassandras who predict imminent dangers but which nobody, taken as we are by the whirlwind of our life, wants to believe.
Who better than the architects, and the futuristic teams that surround them, can take their share of responsibility for that safer world that we would like to leave to our children?





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