Thesis 100dpi

Refugium as a social space
The historically known division into social classes, nations and races
(due to the certain interest) blocks the development to the new ‘’global
culture”. In our current world one is always the oppressor, the other
is oppressed; some are privileged, others are excluded.
In a society that no longer knows the struggle for subsistence, which
is a cause of all divisions, competition disappears at both the individual
and collective level. Refugees who have found sanctuary withing
Refugium share the same feelings of fear, loss and hope that keeps
them together. Social barriers are no longer important. People start
to intermix, which results in the disappearance of racial and social
differences and the fusion into a new state of human evolution - a new
society in movement.
It is the ‘new’ worlds created by imagination
that individuals reformulate
their identities and their ‘cultures’
People in motion /Lotus international
115 LIFE IN MOTION
These radical shifts in terms of both the spatial and social relationships
formed within Refugium provide a plethora of avenues of insight,
drawing on questions of existentialism that are pertinent not only
to the project but the future the current trajectory of contemporary
society. Rapid modernization, and technological advancements of
robotics and AI are taking virtuoso leaps forward. This is leading to the
potential drastic change to the current way of life as we know it. The
concepts found within Refugium not only aim to create a paradigm
shift in the way in which we deal with the issue of a refugee crisis but
also look to utilize a highly exaggerated hypothesis of current social
trends providing a glimpse into a potential future that mankind is
heading towards.