Look like I'm the shorter one and I'm going to start with a very simple question.
What is this house?
Ray, if it's a house, come up here, get inside and wait for us to come in.
It is not a house, this is an image of a house.
It has a fireplace, a pit roof, a door and a window, but it is more real than my own
representation of a house, which also has a pit roof, a door, a window, a fireplace,
and a happy sun.
It's not an island obviously, but it's still a representation.
So the way we represent our own space depends very much about our culture and education.
So in a way, one shouldn't be wondering why our most innovative friends would end up with
a house like this, which has a pit roof, a door, a window, and a door more window, a
slightly more expensive house.
Although I thought now they moved to New York, so maybe they left their houses to New York
or to New York.
So our friend Trix, who is actually more sophisticated because he has a roof garden until you walk
and walk into, he has an atrium for cross ventilation and he reuses an existing structure
which makes him very sustainable.
So maybe it's just about the representation of our space, which is important is how we
perceive our space as human, not as a dog, but as a human, as we see it from a 1.6m high.
So in a way, the visual perception of space is very important, but what happens then when
somebody cannot see?
Should the house be a standard house or should it be a series of walls that help the person
to find their way into the bedroom, into toilets, into a bathroom, and so on and so forth?
Questions.
So space are not only a box, but there are a series of spaces which are interference
to one to another, complementing to one to another, and yes, we have the shelter in the
walls of the device, we need protection from the rain and water, but one should also look
at a space as a series of sequences of space, whether it's inside or outside.
And the same level of thought should be applied to our own cities, which in a way we experience
in the same fashion.
We still experience our cities from 1.5m, but the same level of thought should be put
into our streets and our public space, and the way we engage with our town should be
the same way as we engage with our own private space.
So in a way, a house is a city and a city is a house, and the city can have the same
level of thought and the same level of engagement and the same level of criticism we need to
put into our inside as our outside.
And of course, it's never black or white, bad and evil, it's always a level of graduation
and nuances into spaces, which has a huge, in that sense, it has a huge impact on how
people behave and how people use the spaces are offered to them for leisure.
So the way how people inhabit the space is very important, or for, let's say, a less
more civilized type of behavior, social behavior.
But I guess it is a natural thing, isn't it?
It depends how we design the space for it, and it's a very welcoming space to do that
kind of behaving, which will never disappear.
So maybe we should actually rethink how our public spaces are given to us and how we use
them, because the impact of the spaces we create, whether the inside or outside, have
a huge impact on the quality of the people living in them, because they make their own
history throughout the time, they record their own life in them, whether it's in a normal
house or whether it's in a prison cell.
So who's in charge, us?
So in a way, we need to try to prioritize what we want, whether we want to be living
in the left, or maybe we should prioritize, and we actually take over the streets of our
cities.
Solutions, they do exist.
There's a lot of them.
You can, you know, war, no war, long distance, short distance, high speed, we don't know
them all.
You just have to study a little bit, and you found the solutions quite easily and quite
simply.
The question is, do we want to listen and just live our life, or do we want to start
to take charge and to take in our hands our city and our public space?
So the real question is, how hard do you want me to happen?
So that's it.
