The urban space, as it is increasingly manifesting itself, disordered, in its unbridled proliferation, without any hint of boundaries, of the anthropised and natural landscape, with cities overflowing into megalopolises and panoplies, in the frenetic climate of consumption, bulimic, of use, abuse, degradation, is becoming a multi-focal image, where everything, the whole, establishes a relationship with nothing and what does not become a home (increasingly) but also in the overall sense of civil and human buildings, offices, schools, hospitals, that is, of everything that lies between life and death, for now of individuals and one day (hopefully far off, very far off) of our species, it mixes with the rapid obsolescence and industrial and agricultural degradation, in the frenzy of producing ever more, with the connected landfills, which effectively nullify the very ideal line of any horizon, which as the chaos of things advances, shifts and becomes a paradoxical and unreachable 'plus ultra'.
The problem that needs to be tackled and re-addressed is that of the vicious cycle of use/disposal/degradation, transforming it into new use/reuse/restoration, increasing the circularity of everything and preserving the habitat, rather than damaging it chemically, but instead restoring it ecologically. As I write, facing me is “One” by Listone Giordano, which serves as a mirror, reflecting the possible, probable, inevitable catastrophe if we continue with the current trend; but our future can still be changed and does not have to be catastrophic. A third path is hypothesised, beyond stagnation and degradation, starting from Gilles Clement's articulated Manifesto of the Third Landscape, precisely beginning with degraded and rejected areas, where it is noted that wild animals and spontaneous vegetation proliferate at a visible rate, as evidenced by the damned area and atmosphere of Chernobyl, presaging the advance of an obscuring forest, the “day after” every catastrophe. For us, the focus must remain on humanity, for whom beauty and ugliness, admiration, use, invention, design, and creation have meaning.
Every day, we see the images that the James Webb Telescope sends us, one surprise after another, as we all imagine a circumbinary habitable zone, starting from our neighbour Proxima Centauri, in our Milky Way, stretching to the visible limits of our current universe, 93 billion light-years away. But, let's return to our present day: the utopian idea of cultivating a new concept of city, stealing from Adam and Eve the idea of an Edenic home, prior to the apple, is not precluded to us, but certainly made arduous, very difficult, if not impossible, by a persistent and indeed expanding climate, in which the apocalyptic and the integrated (to borrow from Umberto Eco) do nothing but prevent each other, the good and the beautiful, while precious time for doing, for doing well, escapes from all sides. Meanwhile, the real fractures and catastrophes of change are being pushed forward, changes that would require a somewhat archaic, somewhat technological, necessarily rational, hopefully enchanting capacity, which could give back to every place its own name: sea, land, river, forest, lake and even desert; but finally, man.
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