The Future Needs…Fewer Clichés

All around out us, we see INSERT SPECIFIC SOCIAL, POLITICAL, OR TECHNICAL ISSUE.

To address we should stop INSERT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING.

Instead, we should focus on INSERT SOMETHING THAT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT YOU ALREADY DO.

Formulas do not work, at least not for long. The future that lies not in the answers to questions we now know, but in possibilities, we are only now beginning to imagine.

The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning should be organized as an interactional space in which to question the multiple points of perspectives that will constitute the future. Our drive for expertise and identity should be mediated by interaction with opposing viewpoints (i.e. debate) and visions (i.e. specific propositions). The work our advancing our fields will come by overcoming our (collective) blind spots (both old and new) and seeing the world in the simultaneous complexity of what it was, what it is and what it could be.