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YOUTH

Youth is so much more than you thought it would be. So much more intense and so absolutely imbalanced. As if one would pour a bucket of madness over you, throw you through a window into a filthy backyard, burning down the house while racing down the street in your fucked up car, listening to deafeningly loud music blasting out of broken speakers. The outside is blurry and in the mirror flashes the first glance, the first steps, the first path, the first love, the first happiness, the first hurt, the first change, the first time, a first time. Another time. 

Then stop.

Welcome to our world—a voice is speaking—you have now reached your destination. You are a grown up now.

Please step out of the car and throw the keys into this lake of acid so it dissolves immediately and can never be retrieved. Don't worry, you are stuck here miserably. And if you do not comply, you have no choice—we are older than you, have lived on this rock much longer than you.

Is it really like this?

And you, still staring into the sunset with dreamy eyes. Still believing in hope and in the next day, the next night, the next spring, the next kiss and the next chance for a better life. Are you stuck and dumb?

A stinging smell in my nose, my shoes sink into the swampy, wet earth.

But still, I can walk. I grip the lighter and let it flip playfully between my fingers. Sometimes I dream about letting it fall. I poured enough fuel to burn our world down to the ground. But still, there might be something more. I guess. I turn around, keep the keys and continue on my way. Do you want to
accompany me for a while?
I don't care who you are,
but maybe we are not that different
after all.
Youth is so much more than
I ever thought it would be.

So much more intense.

So absolutely imbalanced.
But that's 
ok.

Published in September 2019

Contributors

Adam Nathaniel Furman, Melissa Vrolixs, Maria Conen, Petronella Mill & Felicia Liang,  Astrid Staufer, Giuseppe Allegri. Linda Stagni, Kai Bührer, Tobias Becker, Francisco Moura Veiga & Vasco Tavares dos Santos, Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet. Stefan Wülser, Fala Atelier, Gregory Tsantilas & Yorgos Lavantsiotis, Alexander Poulikakos. Benoît Jeannet. Wilson Fung, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Claudio Weber, Abir Saksouk (Dictaphone Group), Lorenzo Lazzari. Lauren Bastide (La Poudre), Julia Martignoni & Karina Breeuwer. Anne Lacaton, Foxes, An Fonteyne, Brady Burroughs, Sam Keller, Fabian Reiner, Tom Emerson, Stephan Bastiaans, Emma Lindén, Asger Hejlund Olsen, Michaela Pöschik

Editorial Team
Anna, Joël, Sara, Turi

Table of content

A conversation with Adam Nathaniel Furman about influence

Bureau bleu

A conversation with Maria Conen about transformation

A Youth Centre for Zurich, Lisbeth Sachs

A conversation with Astrid Staufer about identity

Anatomy of antique marbles

Ricordi, speranze e illusione del tempo : il deserto dei Tartari

Alexandria : gestern und davor

A conversation with Tobias Becker about thresholds

It takes a lot of time to be young : a long-distance conversation between a psychoanalyst and an architect

A conversation with Charlotte Truwant & Dries Rodet about inclusivity

Junges Denken

A conversation with Falal Atelier about naivety

Youth as a state of being

A nation's facelift in three acts : Iran's pledge for a new identity

Reimagining Hong Kong's spatial future : umbrella movement four years on

Egypt's new capital : yearning for urban youth

Manifest des Non-Ageing

A conversation with Abir Saksouk (Dictaphone group) about engagement

Block to block : black and hispanic youth against New York City

A conversation with Lauren Bastide (La Poudre) about women

#Collage : a catalogue of fragmented artwork

Echange spontané au détour d'une critique

A conversation with An Fonteyne about vulnerability

Prince Peregrine and the evil drag queen : a queer architectural fairytale on seriously valuing the unserious

A conversation with Sam Keller about generations

Hedonic motivation and the performative self

A conversation with Tom Emerson about (his) education