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| Photo: Maria Vlachou |
Since our confinement started, I had the opportunity of
reading many thought-provoking articles and participating in dynamic online
debates. There is a frequently expressed concern regarding the opportunity this
crisis presents to rethink our practices, redefine our values and the system of
valuing our work, develop relationships of proximity, respect and care both
within our organisations and with our communities.
Will it happen? Will we manage to defy the usual (known) barriers
and promote a new and necessary way of being and acting? Will we be able not to
win the war (of changing the world), but a few decisive battles? Franco “Bifo”
Berardi warned us back March that, when the quarantine ends,
humans “will get the chance to rewrite the rules and break any automatism. But
it is good to know, this won’t happen peacefully. We cannot foresee the shape
the conflict will take, yet we must begin to imagine it. Whoever imagines first
wins - one of the universal laws of history.”
