Today’s world is shaped by global inequality and injustice. Instead of sharing and giving there exists an imbalance — people keep taking and taking… While many live in abundance, they continue to enrich themselves at the expense of those who are destitute. We have to share our wealth in order to coexist equally.

In times of dispair and uncertainty, governments and institutions have failed.
We’ve reached a breaking point, both socially and environmentally. We must choose. Coexist or die.

To coexist means to change our concepts of how things should be because of how they always were. We need to stop preying on each other and find compassion, tolerance. See past preconceptions. We need to be each other’s shelter.

This work wants to invite people to think of words that we need to preserve and eliminate to coexist with each other. It’s a participative work that wants to stimulate a serious consideration on the value of words.

how can we live together when racism is still alive? this statement reflects the time we live and serves as a reminder that there is no vision of coexistence unless we can unite and find a solution to systemic racism.

To coexist, empathy is required to understand each another. It’s the effort to contextualize and understand our different backgrounds. It’s the unifying rush of empathy needed to attempt coexistence in a world where everything is far from equal.

Once we get cut off from all external noise, surroundings, interactions and routines, all we are left with is ourselves and our thoughts. It can be the most challenging dialogue of all, when all around there’s only silence. Coexisting begins with oneself and then it’s projected outwards. This lockdown has been a good exercise on that.

*please notice there is a animation of the poster send to Laura 🙂

or download it here:
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various views on what has happened

Is coexistence possible in the world we used to live in until today? Or maybe should we go further and design a new world, being not so sad of leaving the present one?

For me, to coexist is to build a working relationship. While we live and share the same space and time, to live in peace and take considerations of other’s needs is like being each other’s roommates/crew maters. To treat each other how we want to be treated, to be respectful, to agree to disagree, to have necessary boundaries while still being supportive and caring.

The concept derives from quotes by two of recent history’s most visionary futurists. R. Buckminster Fuller wrote, “We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth.” And Marshall McLuhan wrote, “There are no passengers on spaceship earth, we are all crew.”

Humanity must coexist!
The variety of typeweights as a representation of our difference and similarities. We all play a role that makes our earth, communities and families complete. The circle is a universal symbol that represents the notions of wholeness, original perfection, the Self, the infinite, and eternity.

Peaceful and positive coexistence with each other and with this planet that allows us the possibility of life, is by now our one and only option. We have behaved as if there are no consequences for our actions, that the earth will always heal and keep on giving, this we know to not be true. The principles of coexistence are quite straightforward – respect the planet and all the inhabitants that are lucky enough to share it, nurture and care for each other. Afford all living things the space and environment they require. Easy. The work you say here was made by the team at SPIN studio in a spirit of coexistence.

Coexist is to respect all life forms, their independence and our unity

We are all in the circle, and stakes are high

In solch turbulenten Zeiten ist es wichtiger denn je, die eigene Komfortzone zu verlassen, Barrieren, Grenzen, Mauern zu überwinden und mit Offenheit, Neugier und Wohlwollen neue Freundschaften und Strukturen entstehen zu lassen.

Human beings have created a new digital, artificial world in which they increasingly spend time. Nevertheless, he tries again and again to bring back the natural into this world he has created. We must become aware of this contradiction, the ambivalent relationship between humans and nature. How can we define our relationship to nature? How could we succeed in finding a balance between culture and nature?

Everything around us is in a constant exchange with each other and with us. It is about the connection between the things that make up our daily lives. We have to redefine and redesign our relationship to the world and to others. We have to reinvent the constant dialogue and find a way to find a balance in it.

It has been an incredibly emotional week for me because of the tragedy, which happened in Minneapolis, where I have lived for 6 years.

“What’s going on” from Marvin Gaye. This is the album which I keep coming back to listening to whenever I feel devastated, emotional, and sad… Somehow the songs would calm me down and cheer me up. “War is not the answer… For only love can conquer hate…”

HOPE is there. Some real changes are gonna come!