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While everyone is talking about multiple crises, the economy continues to grow (green), AI promises to reduce complexity, and wars rage, this book takes a stand: it calls for a new relationship with nature and human nature—beyond extractivism and tourism. The authors advocate for a fundamental change in mentality, for a "new rurality." Urban virtues such as freedom, reason, and intimacy must be rethought and relived with an eye to the forgotten spaces of the countryside. Wouldn't a change in our everyday world, decentralized, beyond globality and consumption, be a viable path? And what might it look like? New Rural is not a conventional anthology. It is a choreography of various essays and positions that seeks to seduce us into a new relationship with the concrete things in our lives.
With photo series by Ralf Mecke and Elfie Semotan
- Latest volume in the publication series on the aesthetics and design of the landscape
- With the manifesto "New Rurality,"
- Interdisciplinary exchange on critical rural literature, decentralized architecture, and post-growth economies
Albert Kirchengast is professor of architectural theory at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg and author/editor of numerous specialist books.
Simon Strauß is an author, cultural editor at F.A.Z., and founder and board member of the non-profit association Arbeit an Europa e.V.