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Why should I be so lucky
and I thought I'll be today's comic relief.
I would like to speak about the future of conservation.
A future being built right now, in moments like this.
Sometime in September 2040 the Tel Aviv municipality
was served with thousands of compensation claims
after the white mosaic buildings of the city,
known as the Bath City.
An apparent lack of
experts in plastics for the manufacture of Trisols was noted
because the conservation framework requires them.
There were complaints that these traditions are being lost.
This might be less far-fetched then you think,
becuase until 1984 no one here actually thought
well, perhaps one, but very few thought
that those Bauhaus buildings we now like to promote
are worthy of conservation or something similar
Fact is that even the municipality issued an urban plan
that encourages their desctruction and replacement with new buildings.
Until 2001 no one here thought
that the buildings of what we now call the Zionist Project
are worthy of conservation.
Today we are doing just that.
What do I want to say? Something very very small.
One thing is clear about the future.
That we have no idea what it will be.
We collect data, analyse attitudes,
build future scenarios
carry out feasability checks, map trends,
and do countless surveys and other such words that
come from economics and game theory and such fields
And ultimately, what is well planned, survives well.
What is well planned for now, will also be good for the future.
And this I recommend for Tel Aviv.
Products made to solve a problem we have here and now
will work well and improve the future.
Products planned for the future, will in most cases
fail.
Therefore
instead of asking what's the future of Tel Aviv
which I understand is the theme of this evening
perhaps we should see what questions face us today and try and answer them
today.
Even for them, at the rate the construction sector in Israel works,
until we are ready to implement them and make them real,
mostly likely they won't be relevant and be totally outdated.
So we should do this now.
As David Avidan said, the streets here take off slowly.
I can just wish, hope and plan good things
for the here and now. The future will somehow work out.
Thank you.