BERLIN
MALLORCA
Could a mature country like the German-Germany agree and generate the complicity needed to initiate something that we all know is impossible?
This campaign is part of the Confused Movement. It aims to generate debate and see how far people could go when asking for something, even when it seems to be utopian, and analyze if it's possible to agree on artistically driven collective madness.
So...What is this project about?
It's about moving to the city of Berlin and its inhabitants to the island of Mallorca!
Basis:
In an era in which words such as relocation or mobility labor are on everyone's lips, why not to go a step further and move cities which are located in unfriendly areas for human life to areas more suited?
Berlin has very long winters and no sea. Moving the city of Berlin to Mallorca would offer to all people of Berlin a better quality of life. A life where they could be much more relaxed. Not to mention providing the possibility of having a seaport from which to send and receive goods.
It has been proved that in those countries where there is little sunlight, inhabitants tend to be more bad tempered and show more signals of tiredness and irritability.
The sun and sea would make Germany not just the economic engine of Europe, it would be an open country willing to give higher levels of happiness to the residents of her capital. Residents who have democratically chosen Mallorca as a base in which to place what we would call New Berlin.
What are the advantages of this idea?
- During the time that lasted the construction of New Berlin both Germany and Spain could practically touch full employment.
- Germany would have two leading cities: One would be the Silicon Valley of artists worldwide. All great artists from around the world gathered at the former Alt Berlin due to the affordable rents that would be again been very cheap. Moreover, a new city would arise from nothing, allowing a large number of German workers to enjoy a better quality of life, thanks to the typical food on the island, as well weather and sea. Besides all the living costs like heating and electricity would be significantly reduced.
- Spain, and Mallorca specifically, might enjoy having the motor capital of Europe on its own island with all the advantages that it means, like a good level of employment and improvement in the Spain-Germany relationship.
- Germany would have a city-bridge across southern Europe and Mediterranean that would allow strengthening ties with all the regions of the area.
- New Berlin will eventually become a confident city like Barcelona but with the efficiency and accountability provided by the German people.
