grounds and functions can be organized in such a way that the roads to alternative future uses are kept as open as possible. At first sight, Temporary Alternative Allocations aim to make it possible for areas or locations that are waiting for a ‘permanent’ allocation to receive a temporary function: this can take the shape of a temporary natural area at the location of a future harbor, or the temporary ‘rewilding’ of a neighbourhood destined to be urbanized, or the setting up of a temporary park on the spot of a future roundabout. Seen as such, Temporary Alternative Allocations are nothing more than charming in-between solutions for the time in-between. From temporality to sustainability But is this such a modest proposition? Does this concept not open a totally opposite perspective, based on the principle that every allocation is, or should be, temporary – no matter how permanent or definite it looks to us on the drawing board? Does it not show us the way towards a new covenant between man and his environment, a contract based on the fundamental value that every allocation should be able to be transformed into other possible allocations? And should this fundamental value not be sustainability – a sustainability that comes to light by envisaging grounds and locations as temporary allocations that from time to time undergo a ‘changing of the guard’? By taking this way of seeing and doing to the extreme, we could even see that every non-temporary allocation leads to so-called ‘perverse linkages’. Wherever temporality is not the guiding principle, there lurks the danger of this perversity. Because perversion emerges when our actions do not sufficiently take the perspective of future destinations and generations into account: ‘Profit now and leave the bill to unknown individuals in a unknown future.’ There is nothing more perverse than an ostrich that puts its 81 Pagina 82
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