➤ It is 2064, and I take my first step into the abandoned ruins of what was once a shopping mall.

➤ It is 2064 and and you go outside for an evening walk.

➤ Here, weirdly enough, objects were once sold physically — clothing, food, electronics — to people who made the effort to come here, instead of simply having everything delivered at home.

➤ A lot of meeting places, as well, all very lively; a great mix of people, different genders, ages, ethnicities. This ethnical mix, which I think is very pronounced at this moment, in 2064, is not based on the assimilation of newcomers but rather on respect and care for one another. We don't all need to do things the same way, we only need to take others into account and respect that others might do things differently.
People are also having discussions, talking to each other. Really listening to each other, and not trying to convince the other that you're right, but clarifying your views and also being willing to listen to people, to their arguments, to understand the way they think and why they look at things that way. And I think understanding others is a first step towards thinking about alternative ways of living together.
Herbs and weeds are allowed to flourish here and there. Not that the streets and the squares should be overgrown with weeds so you can't pass through anymore, but just a little bit more, like... it shouldn't all be cut and measured to the millimetre, this blade of grass is allowed grow here but this flower mustn't grow there...

➤ Where there were once t-shirts that had been assembled by children in distant countries, climbers and creepers now thrive, and ants have reconquered the terrain that once belonged to them.
Then I hear something down the corridor. I hide between the plants, feel the ants crawling over me, and hold my breath.
Laughter. Music. How long I sit there, I'm not sure. Two minutes? Two hours? Until I dare to stand up, shake the ants off of me, and decide to put my fears aside and follow the voices. I have nothing to lose, after all.
Around the first corner of what was once the shopping mall, a complete surprise awaits me. The shopping mall of yesteryear has been transformed into a residential area. People walk in and out of spaces that must once all have been stores. Some are living spaces, others are libraries, classrooms, concert halls, workspaces, washing rooms, kitchens, dining spaces,...
On the floor above me — because of course it is a shopping mall with several floors, connected by escalators — people are riding bicycles. Where the shopping mall's parking space once was, all the concrete has been broken open.

➤ Less concrete, more green...

➤ Patches of wild, flourishing grass alternate with gardens where vegetables are grown, canals and streams meander through the area, and trees provide shade.

➤ I also see... small animals, even in the city. A squirrel running around the trees, jumping from one to the next...

➤ Of course it rains here from time to time, but there are covered public spaces.

➤ People playing games together...

➤ Of course people don't do everything themselves around here. There are also automated production lines, but the profits of what is produced are divided amongst the inhabitants. Of course there are electricity cables coming in and giant batteries...

➤ By the end of the walk, it gets dark, and I actually see stars...

➤ But I'm really looking at the stars, and I say, and I want to tell them, "you're out of the forest here, there's a clearing, beautiful stars..." They're all gone. So I must have been standing there longer than I thought, but the stars were so beautiful... So there I was, with a dense forest between me and my destination. And for a moment, I panicked, and then I thought, I'll just start walking. At a certain point, you don't see anything anymore, and it was really special, that darkness really guides you and gives you a sense of endless peace... And so I continued walking, walking, walking, and then suddenly I saw stars again...

➤ ... stars, and perhaps even the Milky Way...

➤ ... and there was one, a planet I think, that was very, very... I first walked straight on, and I felt like I was being carried by the dark, and then at a certain point I felt I couldn't go on, because the forest became too dense, and then I saw light... a light, so it was... Mercurius or Jupiter, I'm not sure, but it was a planet, and it pointed me in the direction I had to go...