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Buchbeiträge:

B. Holub:
"The Blue Frog Society";
in: "The Future of the Future", J. Andel (Hrg.); herausgegeben von: DOX Prague; DOX, Prag, 2010, 978-80-87446-02-07, S. 46 - 55.



Kurzfassung englisch:
"Yesterday we dreamt about the future,
today the future dreams about us."

The future is not what it used to be. While this saying has already entered popular culture, its implications began to dawn on us only recently. The notion of "future" was central to Modernism, but in the late 20th century it ceased to be the driver of the Western world. In recent decades, questions of the past, of memory and identity, instead emerged as dominant in our society.

The premise of this project is that this current position, with its division between our notions of past and future, is untenable. We seem to find ourselves on the threshold of a fundamental social and cultural change that is once again raising the question of the future. But it is the future (or futures) of a different kind - one that does not separate itself from the past, one that emphasizes sustainability and interconnectedness rather than progress and growth without limits.

This new understanding is already emerging in statements such as the following made by the artist Jochen Gerz: "The question of the future, which is the central question of modernism, is also a question of the past." One can find the future in one form or another in the past as well as the present, and it is artists who often recognize it and help create it by making vital connections and by envisioning new forms and attitudes.

Schlagworte:
future, modernism, urban planning,

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