Our built and designed environment / space is a product of our Society and Civilisation that is essentially formed by architecture. Architecture generates the social space and influences the social action and indirectly the society. The manifesto is illustrating the social responsibility of architects, stimulating reflection, but also to demands concrete personal action in the background of current social and ecological developments.
The theoretical basis for this manifesto is the examination of works by philosophers and sociologists such as Karl Popper, Pierre Bourdieu, Henri Lefebvre, Diedier Eribon, Hartmut Hussermann, Walter Siebel, Michel Foucault, Jens Dangschat, Marc Auge and Richard Sennett, as well as the architects and artists such as Bogdan Bogdanovic, Le Corbusier, Adolf Loos, Jan Gehl, Helga Fassbinder, Eilfried Huth, Oscar Niemeyer, Aldo Rossi, Ernst Hubeli, Mario Botta and Robert Smithson.