For an operante Archaeology of the Present

Although the globalisation and the spreading of a ‘universal’ way of living, although the increasing number of non-places in the world everywhere the same, we should acknowledge that each city is a monotype, a different single copy with its own individuality, and a specific peculiarity. At the different scales and in certain historical periods. The gradual dispersion of primal characters represents an interdisciplinary conceptual hub that we question with growing concern: we are dealing with the loss of the identity of the places, but also, and above all, of their inhabitants. The topic involves deep ethical aspects, implies the questioning of functional and economic mechanisms, and calls us back to a responsibility toward the future that is often avoided because of prevailing economic logics. The archaeology of the present concerns also architecture, but we haven't developed yet a real debate around this responsibility.