FUSE worlds apart

Wolrds Apart

Participants in city planning—planners, officials, and residents—often have conflicting viewpoints based on their roles and interests. While professionals (planners) focus on high-level, strategic, and long-term, data-driven goals, residents generally prioritize immediate, localized, and personal impacts, such as green space or neighborhood density.
The problem is, we are neither. We have high-level long term goals. They just differ from the city planners and developers. Where we differ is that we see living and working environment as a leraning situation towards a more ideal society. For the planners and the developers the ideal city is a given. There needs to be no room for experiment, at least not on a municipal level. The experimenting is something that can be done on a personal level.
So, many hours are spent in meetings, planning sessions and in hearings. In the end we manage to safe only our own studio's. Some trees. And prevent some of the worst plans for the area.

Why that worked? Tenacity and presence. We were there, never stopped, never gave in.
Plus, maybe, a certain charm. We are the idealists after all.