First step: think about!

Economic Crisis
Social Crisis
Democracy Crisis
Revolution Crisis
Environment Crisis
Ideal Crisis
Identity Crisis

Everything stands still.
But everything is changing.
We can’t have certitude because complex mechanisms are working really fast in every corner of the world.
Many issues seem to get worst, hopelessly.

That’s because we desperately try to stop movement, to hold energy, to keep the “status quo”.

Europe turmoils, from Portugal to Estonia, from United Kingdom to Greece what has been tried to stop in the last 22 years, from the collapse of URSS suddenly exploded.
People of Europe are waiting for someone to protect them, they way of life, their privileges (compared to the rest of the world) and perhaps to increase them. People of Europe don’t ask so much, they just would like to find a work that can allow them a decent welfare for the rest of their life.
But it seems the system is not working anymore.
We are asked to make sacrifice to postpone the day in which we will have to make other sacrifices, and so on.

So probably Europe is on the border of her sliding doors: try to create new system in which people can build welfare on a new system of needs, or slowly fall into the fog of history.

This is an amazing challenge for design:
- organize information, make it accessible and sharable, let receiver manipulate them, avoiding the sophistic approach of present media
- define new process and organization for alternative society, in which parameters of welfare can be based on alternatives than the actual consumerist society

The target: being aware of the future we are already setting up today