The paper questions how to act in a way that breaks with the established. How to break the status quo, which, as Giorgio Agamben points out, is in fact completely unstable? We live in a time that is (seemingly) constantly changing with a multiplicity of choices, while the generalisation of the exception has become commonplace, because we live in a world of emergency. We live in a world where the temporariness of emergency has become the rule. Or, as Peter Klepec insightfully describes our time, we live in a time of “permanent ultimatums, in societies of emergency”, in a society of superemergencies”. This state of affairs manifests itself in “development”, the effects of which are the gradual denaturalisation of the world. Along with the process of denaturalisation, our relationship to nature is changing in a directly proportionate way. Despite the many alternatives that exist, it seems that we are no longer able to even think, let alone act, in a way that would allow us to break out of the cycle of our domination of nature. But this is what we need to do. To overcome this extremely burdensome situation, it will be necessary to break with the current seemingly immutable automatic processes and procedures. We need actions that will break the current pattern of prediction. We need an answer to the question of how, in this continuity of a state of emergency subordinated to capital, we can even begin to think and create the possibility of action, without forgetting everything artificial around us. All of the above is essential for the design profession, because if change does not come from the profession itself, those who survive the tsunami of the absurd state of emergency in the production of things that we are living in today will be forced to change design.
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