Unexpected Ordinary Life - The politics of “Otium”

Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, walk, bike, bike, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk...We are still living in a society based on politics of consumption, where everything seems homogenised, commodified and predictable. The desire to consume is often portrayed as a natural human characteristic that cannot be changed. Nowadays, however we can a shift in what people value in cities. How to react to this current crisis of leisure? The mall. How can the Molenpoort become a place for leisure? How can the Molenpoort, a Non-place, transform into a Place? City centres should question their overwhelming layout of shopping windows bordering the streets and should revalue their city centre as a wonderful meandering of existing historic grid, where the flaneur and the blasé can finally identify themselves again