Sapporo 2 - the Future of Sapporo is Sapporo 2 !

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.....in the future.......Sapporo shall be known as Sapporo 2
.....in the future.......Sapporo 2 shall function as a parallel reality to open our minds
.....in the future.......we will remember Sapporo 2 as a world formed by our own thoughts and actions
.....in the future.......snow is everywhere and Sapporo 2 will always be covered by snow, every day and every night
.....in the future.......the snow of Sapporo 2 is considered to be the most democratic substance, it comes for free and falls on all heads
.....in the future.......the snow of Sapporo 2 is experienced as an existential phenomena, its hides and reveals, revealing our essence, behaviour, actions and feelings
.....in the future.......the snow in Sapporo 2 will be its most important economical resource
.....in the future.......in Sapporo 2 snow is no longer seen as waste
....in the future.......in Sapporo 2 snow is connected to every aspect of life, even in summertime
....in the future.......in Sapporo 2 snow is everything and everything looks white

....in the future.......snow will be understood as a collective mirror, reflecting ourselves in all ways
....in the future.......snow is like us, and we are like snow, solid flaks of water in air

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....in the future.......art will no longer be based on individual genius
....in the future.......meaning in no longer understood as something generated by individual activity
....in the future.......all artists are collaborating, all over the world
....in the future.......artists will become of most importance to society
....in the future.......artists are key personalities connecting networks, coordinating multi-tasks organization and over seeing interconnected consequences
....in the future.......art is part of everything and everything is art
....in the future.......everyone will be an artist because live itself has become artistic
....in the future.......all people will work together because meaning can only be created by collective activity
....in the future.......the aesthetic idiom of art is historically reset as a diversion
....in the future...... art is no longer seen as a competitive act, but as a collective means to create meaning

....in the future.......artists shall have multi-disciplinary skills creating art and society
....in the future.......artists will be creative in all kinds of professions

....in the future.......artists will explore new fields of operation and create their own artistic contexts
....in the future.......public space will be our cultural heritage

....in the future.......all public money is spend on art and culture to the benefit of the society
....in the future.......the community again supports culture, because art is once again a language to communicate ourselves within context of everything that surrounds us.....
The projects and consequences

....in the future.......snow is used to reflect the light and brighten the sky
....in the future.......snow is used to understand time as multi-layered traces of movement
....in the future.......snow is used to make new connections and construct other possibilities
....in the future.......snow has become the most important cultural development, offering possibilities and experiments to fail and progress
....in the future.......the cities infrastructure is reconstructed each year, depending of the amount of available snow
....in the future.......all activity to move snow from the city is used to create the most amazing artificial landscape, one has ever seen
....in the future.......every street will have its own snow festival
....in the future.......each school uses every playground to create amazing snow-scapes
....in the future.......every neighbourhood takes part in an annual snow contest
....in the future.......the annual snow festival of Sapporo II will again be a local festival hospitable to guests

....in the future.......a new national holiday is held to enjoy the first snowfall
....in the future.......snowballs become a means of communication and interaction

....in the future.......the annual snow festival of Sapporo II will express contemporary Japanese culture
....in the future.......the annual snow festival will address public issues both political and social

....in the future.......we can think of ourselves in different realities, as fluid, gas, solid shape and falling flakes
....in the future.......our reality is like snow, we can rethink ourselves every season, but all statements will eventually disappear.