ALLES.
Plea for a universal integration
The
world’s population is growing, migration is vast. With all
challenges ahead, the current population of 7.4 billion people is
facing a future which is often drawn in grim colours. A future where
lack of resources, shortage of drinking water, natural disasters,
economic crises and lack of space lead to war-like conflicts and the
loss of cultural discourse. In the midst of such an outlook, many
social movements offer modest, bureaucratic, conservative and
undiscerning ideas. Their main goal is to act economically. Passive,
compact, microand optimalare slogans to reflect their attitude. Great, high aiming political
gestures, also in architecture, are immediately seen as suspicious,
profligate, presumptuous and far from reality. Our
goal is to develop a dystopian image of our future, a concept and a
manageable stepstone.
The
world’s population is growing, migration is vast. With all
challenges ahead, the current population of 7.4 billion people is
facing a future which is often drawn in grim colours. A future where
lack of resources, shortage of drinking water, natural disasters,
economic crises and lack of
space lead to war-like conflicts and the
loss of cultural discourse. In the midst of such
an outlook, many
social movements offer modest, bureaucratic, conservative and
undiscerning ideas. Their main goal is to act economically. Passive,
compact, microand optimalare slogans to reflect their attitude. Great, high aiming political
gestures, also in architecture, are immediately seen as suspicious,
profligate, presumptuous and far from reality. Our
goal is to develop a dystopian image of our future, a concept and a
manageable stepstone. In
the course of the coming years, mass migration will rise. The ongoing
conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan, Libanon, Kongo, Somalia and the
Ukraine, as well as results of global warming and natural disasters,
are strong factors for that. The mass migration will not be stopped.
The masses of people, longing for our outlook of the world, will come
and ask questions: Where are the miracles? Where is your high
culture? Where is the civil society, democracy, progress,
integration?
We
have an important mission to fulfill. We are to look into our hearts
and be brave. We are to be remembered, that - with every single life
more on earth - human values are connected, as well as dangers, risks
and casualties. The
shortage of space,
however, is a miss.
To put all people next to each
other, only the area of Luxemburg is necessary. The
shortages are very local issues. There has never been a total general
shortage, and there never will be. The pathology to the existential
angst is a product of sick claustrophobia. This phobia is a product
of anormal human relations. It is, furthermore, a result of a lost
sense of living, the misliving,
as well as space-related manifested social structures.
Yet,
what has become obvious by now, even in the most primitive European
ways of living, namely inside refugee camps and in homes of asylum
seekers, integration is present as the most important issue on the
agenda. The integrationism is expanding and is presented as a means
to all ends, as a cure against all crises of the multi-culturalism,
which, as a former concept, has been declared dead. The
currently propagated assisted integration buildings, designed with
space for interchange and social activities such as cultural and
language courses, are supposed to replace the formerly multicultural
cities, respectively keep the multi-cultural cities quiet.
Within
this debate, it becomes clear that living is seen as a basic defect
of the system. It is presented as such, while the system itself is
shown to be unwilling to accept integration. „The responsibility
lies within the people, the defect is inside the population, in their
homes“, seems to be the attitude.
By
now, the space-related presence of the democratic administration,
however, remains exclusive, separated, and centralised, far from the
people. Yet, the administration executing integration has to face the
fact that the overall goal of integration is to overcome the self,
respectively to overcome the habit to rule alone, not just the
mixture of private and urban use by the people. Integration has to be
universal. The atmosphere fits this demand.
The
modern era is gone with all its facets. All kinds of separation,
preserving, widely applied classification, and cleansing, is
completed in total. It’s enough. A time is at sight, wherein all
fragments separated my modern era-developments are re-united again to
become one whole entity.
Space will be the home.
The welcoming call
„Everybody is welcome“ has already generated this space: Europe
becomes a structure of integration, everythingwill be living structures. The smallest unit of the system will also
be the only one. Living is everything. Everythingis sovereign. Everythingis co-living. Everythingis separation and mixture. Everythingis business, product, income and expense. Everythingis capital, everythingis management. Everythingis order, Everything- assisted, democratised, integrated.
To
provide space to the people coming here, today rooms are used which
are basically worthless to the system. Empty office space, gyms,
stadiums, restaurants are used to become simple buildings for
integration. Soon enough, also the shopping centres, churches,
museums, post offices and universities will be settled. Airports,
hospitals, archives, parliaments, national banks, administration
buildings, stock exchange houses, production sights, etc. will become
living space.
As
a parallel development, and in a parallel process of everything
becoming something, the integration of the system takes place. Our
system has to surrender in times of omnipresent settling, and be
restructured. The system will not go away. In contrast, it will be
re-constructed, and spread into new parts of public space, it will be
part of every integration building, will become a daily visible,
simple, profane and humane institution.
The
allegedly lost functions, tasks and values of our society will be
separated and shared by the responsibility of single households or
living units, administering and managing themselves. The
production, the capital, the bureaucracy, the disabled humans,
science, education, the foreigners, humans of various sexual
orientation, incarcerated people, the police, the art, religion, the
ruling class, the refugees, people without perspective, the radicals,
the fearful, the simple ones, the caring, the workers, the nature -
everything has to be integrated. Buildings for integration will
fulfill the task to unite them all. The integration has to be
universal.
2016
Text: Milan Mijalkovic and Lisa Silbermayr
English translation: Carsten Schmidt
Text: Milan Mijalkovic and Lisa Silbermayr
English translation: Carsten Schmidt
Copyright: Milan Mijalkovic, 2020