4. Today a concern regarding the integration of nature in construction is often noted: the classical opposition between urban and natural is dissolved to produce new hybrids. What roles does nature acquire in the context of the city you imagined? Nature is transforming itself from a secondary character with incidental part (used many times just because it looks good on the generic) – into a main character, filmmaker and eventually a spectator of its own show. Just like any early phenomenon, current interference with the natural in the urban area still has many weak points, being an attempt which has failed so many times that it tends to alter the very concept. Forced naturalisation of the urban has in its being something of the forced urbanization of the rural from the communist period. We can try such mixes, but they will always retain deep roots of specific characters and insurmountable barriers, with all the creativity available. Naturalisation of the urban must occur, as the name suggests, naturally. Some isolated catalysts risk changing the general perception of the future of such a world, not necessarily through the results but rather in the light of the receptors of these results. I believe that our society (unfortunately, I am referring here only to the immediate limits of our city, country, area) has not reached such a high level of urbanisation and technologisation to feel the need of a return to nature.
The first transformation is so close (from the natural to the urban) that such a return at this moment (orchestrated and coordinated) would be perceived rather as an involution and cannot be but awkward. Nature will automatically follow its course at the moment society becomes saturated by evolution and technologisation. We still have some serious steps to take in this direction. For this reason, nature from my works is not such a hybrid, is not something programmed but occurs naturally, abundantly, almost violently. With a little sad humour, a utopia in a minor key is also the fact that here, nature has intervened over the current situation of the city (in reality far from having reached the urban and technological saturation which I have mentioned above). 5. There is a state of deep anchoring in the contingent in Romania that leads to difficulty in dreaming the future. Why and to what extent is a utopia necessary today in Romania, after more than 60 years of absence?
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