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Today's problems cannot be solved by thinking the way we thought when we created them. The bandwidth of our world is greater than our imagination. The whole world is in a perpetual status of change. The effects of global modernisation continue to connect and shape us, altering all forms of exchange: from urban fabric and forms of circulation to the way in which we act towards others or the forms of our cultural products. In order to align ourselves with the inevitable transformations, we have to face the speed of change, the different contexts and scales of operations as well as new urban phenomena. To really understand the new potentials in existing conditions, we need deep analyses and an increasing flexibility in methodologies and concepts beyond our own profession in order to find new instruments for successfully intervening in space. We are confronted with imperfections, accidents and fluxes rather than with the situation of the ideal. Each new project is a need for constant shifts in our thinking and an active search for a new idea.

Erik Behrens