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A Grand View of Our Rural Future

Speech delivered at the Rural Design Days 2022. 1. For many years, the author as researcher and convener of conferences was pretty isolated in his position or his demand, that an inner connection of future rural development with urban development should be addressed. In his perspective, the rapid development of telematic networks was seen as a factor to enforce the technical, administrative, social and cultural cooperation of urban "network nodes" with rural "front ends". 2. The Corona crisis enforced a broad social confrontation with these potentials, an worldwidea new pivot to rural resulted. On the one hand, home office and home learning developed rapidly, on the other hand and not surprisingly, a new awareness of the quality of living close to landscape and nature emerged. And the current crisis of global resource flows underlines the need for local circular economies and the awareness of regenerative, not just sustainable solutions. 3.It is important to point out that increasing attention to valuing and shaping of the local, our living spaces, is also the only long-term prospect of peace that this world has. For when we see our neighborhood, our village, our community, and our region as representative of a cell or cellular tissue in the fabric of a healthy planet earth, and work to set an example, we are not acting selfishly, but contributing to the emergence of models of a good life for all everywhere. Never before have we been able to work better as a global brain to solve the most diverse local problems, and never before has it been so obvious to share all knowledge, because this allows all communities and societies to develop better and more intensively inward. 4. This is where design becomes political. In an age of Global Villages, new forms of regional communication emerge from the bottom up and demand a certain degree of regional souvereignity in the face of legislations that foster the unhindered flow of capital. Circularity means that all local actors are stakeholders and act in interdependency. At the same time, and especially because global co-operation is fostered by this pivot of each region towards its internal relation and co-ordination, the old borders of nation states and the demands of empires become obsolete. Still, the mobilisation of community action and inclusion is most likely the strongest force to meet the challenges of climate change, resource depletion and economic downturn. This is the reason why enlightened politicians enact and support this mobilisation. 5. The speech takes a close look at the exciting new patterns and possibilities of rural development and calls for a pattern language of 21st century rurality - fostered by a meaningful and user-led digitalisation and an Open Souce mentality. it is a call for Global Villagers all over the world to join forces and show the emergence of a peaceful superpower.