d requests can be identified in cities and then resources can be used to benefit the community. As an example, the Luchtsingel pedestrian bridge is one of the earliest examples of the crowdfunding projects. The 400-meter-long pedestrian bridge which connects three different areas of the city since they lost the connection due to a couple of interventions such as the highway, was built with the help of the donations of locals through a virtual platform. The foundation established afterward which continues to provide services to develop the urban environment.
Likewise, the people who do not want to live through the stereotypical approach to housing or working can collectively create new formats together ³. Maybe then, we can talk about innovation.
Innovation – at least the one as we know- was not always in favor of humanity. The reason for the increasing welfare levels is not the implementation of the mass- production band or developments of moving machines. Because technological developments alone are insignificant. What translates them into the future is the intention of their use and their adaptation in our lives. In this context, I think that our future predictions are implicit in designing these innovations for our purposes. As technology develops so rapidly yet humanitarian goals are still immature, I sincerely hope that the real innovation will follow the compromise of equal spaces where everyone can benefit from innovations in cities.
1 “The Future Is Already Here – It’s Just Not Very Evenly Distributed.”: interview with William Gibson , Fresh Air, NPR, 31 August 1993.
2 Luca Molinari: The Homes That We Are, Nottetempo, 2017. Translation: Jennifer Knaeble
3 Joi Ito, Jeff Howe, Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future, Grand Central Publishing, New York, 2016, p. 26.