Towards the Existing Introductory Video for Panel 1 at IFA Conference Berlin, DE 2024Dealing with existing structures has become a new paradigm on the backdrop of the depletion of resources. What does it mean if we have to preserve and transform at the same time? How is the transformation of the existing affecting the architecture profession. "So what if we as architects and planners started a different narrative? What if we accepted that the world has already been built? Everything is already there - sufficient built structures and differentiated spatial offerings in the form of processed material, bound energy and lived cultural history. And all we have to do is learn to use this resource seriously and creatively at the same time?"