<Cesar> Living is accepting to be killing. Most eating is killing. We need to de-
stroy something to build something. Something needs to be closed to be opened.
Humans have never been so constructively and destructively empowered, at the
tip of our fingers we could erase life from the surface of our own planet several
times.
Does this power offers new perspectives of freedom?</Cesar>
<Jesse>”Life is an ecstatic intercourse between destruction and creation”, and
then “keep loving, keep fighting”.</Jesse>
<Cesar>This suggests a very straight forward application of “opening architec-
ture” : it could simply be opening doors in houses, windows in walls, removing
buildings in cities, destroying cities, countries, make space on the earth... Absurd?
</Cesar>
<Cesar>What is the difference between having a house and not having a
house?</Cesar>
<Tony>Ooh, everything, everything. It feels suicidal on the street and every-
thing...</Tony>
<Cesar>You feel suicidal all the time?</Cesar>
<Tony>Not all the time, but you know 75% no, 25% yes. I never was like that.</
Tony>
<Cesar>It is not your decision to be on the streets?</Cesar>
<Tony>Noooo! It’s crazy man!</Tony>
<Cesar>Is Open architecture such a bourgeois aspiration!?</Cesar>
<Usman>Absolutely. You know open architecture is the privilege of those who
can discuss, who are content enough with the rest of the world that they can
discuss ridiculous things like this! Check the work of Michael Rakowitz : he made
a bunch of inflatables for homeless people, he took them on as clients. It was not
a question of donating ‘here is a lovely shelter for you’. He actually went and took
them as clients and said “what kind of space would you like? What do you need
in the space? And he designed and built this inflatable which is actually hooked on
the air vents of buildings so they inflate providing them thermal protection.
</Usman>