Täglich: Why we need the public, public space and public buildings.

Cities are places characterized by diversity. This diversity is one of the keys to meeting the great challenges of humankind in a creative way. How can passive consumers become active creators? Where are the places in which the social wealth of a city can serve as a fertile medium for participation, creation, and collaboration? The Täglich, as a public, inclusive building, has a proposal to make. It picks up on the latest discourses in a range of disciplines, and it maps out both conceptually and spatially a new type for interaction, for debate in society, and for the production of the city. This is a place for participation and active democracy in urban daily life; it is at the same time both a space of possibilities and critical urban infrastructure