Rural habitat, heritage and citizenship. The importance of contemporary interventions.
Earlier, in this same room, it was referred to the fact that the relationship “ Culture – Europe – Citizenship ” should absolutely be a part of the city space. In my opinion, this statement is perfectly exact, adequate and correct. Nevertheless, as I have spent most of my own life in an East-European country in which over half the population lives not “ in a rural environment ” but simply in the countryside – in the most original, primordial and plain meaning of this word – I can not ignore the fact that also for those people who live there, the question of European citizenship should be raised in comparable terms. This is even more true as the problems they are confronted to seem to be similar to those that occur in most of the European countries. This conclusion belongs in fact, to an East-European group of specialists in architecture and heritage. This team, of which I used to be a member, has found an apparently simple phenomenon: now, or more precisely after the fall of th...
