What if we confront the Europan 11 results with the French term 'Reliance' in order to scrutinize the relation between things in its contemporary specificity?

What if we take a skyscraper‘s infrastructural circulation and appropriate it as a generator of a vertical collective landscape?

Why should the ratio of floor heights limit the children‘s desire for playing?

What if the access to the sea demands to grow upside-down, turning the ground floor to a precious reserve?

What if G. Matta-Clark‘s ‘Unreal Estate‘ inspires an open series of snapshots, dedicated to 'territoires-trouvés' of future disappearance?

How can urban design change its mission, transforming from a body of control to an instrument of discovery?

How can we overcome the anti-urban drive of social housing ideology and provide forbidden synergies between public space and subsidized housing?

How can we reintroduce the promise of Mies in the Barcelona pavilion, taking quotes from “Über das Neue“ as opportunities  to free the pavilion‘s plan?

What if a backyard parcel converts into a micro-cosm of living, intertwining intimacy and infinity?

What if the city inspires productive misreadings of the non-intentional potential of the master‘s plan, proving that the Plan Cerdá is geniously wrong?

What if the idea of a living room as shared space introduces a provocative range of social facilities, such as swimming pool, library and cinema?

What if we see housing as a pair of shoes?

What if the idea of providing maximum height becomes the pretext for the ceiling‘s striptease?

What if a transversal line for slow mobilities becomes the driving force for a paradoxocal development, combining territorial history with total restructuring?

What if the limits of the parcel, the notion of the object, and the specialization of the program disappear in a multiscalar layering of movements?

What if the rendezvous of action, mobility, and public surface introduces an urban strategy facing the gap between good intention and lack of critical mass?

How to address the hybrid scale of architecture and urbanism as a marriage of financial constraints and spatial excellence, of intense use and open programs?

What if the exceptional density triggers a typological performance which allows the encounter of extra-ordinary proximity with remote panoramas?

How to respond with less than 8 scenarios if the city gives you 6 days for proving the “preservational correctness“ of a competition brief?

Can urban space and landscape intrude upon the living space of the elderly and open up the closed circuit of the geriatric institution?

What if you liberate architecture from being seen, making it disappear in a surreal complicity of landscape and advertising?

Why Koolhaas overlooked NY's first lobotomy, Eiffel‘s statue of Liberty, a hollow body whose metal skin wraps around the daily procession ofinnumerable tourists?

What if we change suburbia's boring conversion of unproductive agriculture into housing, reconsidering the relation between living and cultivating?

What if we have a far too restricted idea about the diversity of urban conditions, situations and developments in so called European areas?

What does it mean for the urbanist if the mayor announces a new district which has been constructed only by action and subtraction?

What if we have to negotiate the conditions in order to create more promising starting points for the development of excellent housing projects?

What to design if 100 hectars for a potential city are available? Buildings? Actions? Desires? Situations? Processes?

Why should Europan not work as a fruitful paradox promoting the necessity of a collision between idea and construction?

What if we answer to Austria‘s lack of contemporary urban design with a trans-office enterprise, discovering relations between separate commissions?

Is public space a question of scale, of wind, of prejudices, of promotion, of responsibilities, regulations, continuous appropriation?

What if the experience of 24 sunsets within a few minutes helps us to understand that true nature only happens as intensified encounter of technologies?

What if the city's waterfront developments are not extending but limiting our imagination about the pleasures of public space?

What if we see, instead of hanging panels, a fragile layering of horizontal elements, framed by styrofoam for reasons of easy carrying?

If the masterplan fixes all volumes, and you have to draw 15 A0 panels for submission: why not enjoy the extrapolation of inner differentiation?

Programmatic suns, inebriation of points, kisses of blocks and a stock exchange of micro-values - how can we make a client trust these achievements?

What if we intensify by reinterpreting familiar elements of Leipzig‘s landscape: the fallow-lands, the parks and playgrounds, the allotment gardens, the urban woods, the boulevards?

What if “elevator-free-living“ triggers a ground condition which enriches the living environment with casual encounters?

How close can you live with your neighbour without abandoning the option of intimacy?

Have we really explored the cultural impact of the fact that in 1916 the urban planning law of NYC embedded “infinity“ as a regulatory parameter for building heights?

What if a neglected space is declared as the most precious area of the city, promoting a total re-evaluation of the existing and the future?

What if the border becomes the centre of urban activities, a place where the dispersed processes of mutual exchange culminate?

What if Graz lives the rhythms of absent times, simultaneous to L.A., Saigon, Istanbul, or Santiago de Chile?

WWhat if a riding hall promotes contextual ambiguity, appearing as topography or familiar shed at the same time?

WWhat if we offer an archipelago of different urban formations, abandoning the block as main organizing principle of urban mass?

What if we take notice of the unbelievable activism of natural forces and use it as the most inexpensive pleasures of our everyday-living?

Why is it so embarrassing to look at the quality of the landscapes that surround the houses in which we live, forming an essential part of our living experience?

Isn‘t it exciting to interprete the apppropriation of the grid as an enterprise which is condemned to perpetual heroic failure?

Why not taking the challenge of extraordinary security-demands and a mininal budget?