Essay and project inspired by Biennale di Venezia 2014: Curated subject of how in the past 100 years nationalism was lost inspires a research into the impressive influence of Romania’s last 100 years on Romanians. RO 40-25-65-100 „(...)how we got from here to there...” I PACKED MY BAG AND IN IT I PUT...* ...I packed my bag and in it I put all that I could carry on a flight back home. Upon my arrival I found out that my bag got lost on the way. I lost everything I had decided to take with me on a deserted island. RE-LOCATE ACCUMULATION FETISH AS FUNDAMENT Manifesto: Fundamental is not the concept or the process but the accumulation from which these two are born. Abstract: In an academic exercise to understand communities that are dealing with extreme poverty, students are encouraged to take photographs of the interiors of the shelters and to list an inventory of the objects they find. From this inventory students can later approximate for how long the owner has been living on the streets and the number of re-locations he went through. The first time an individual is evicted, he tends to carry with him as many possessions from his former home as possible. These objects are usually placed inside the temporary shelter in accordance to the way they were placed in the abandoned house. The illegal shelter may provide housing for a few months or years, but as soon as it’s discovered by the police, its owner is forced to leave and search for a new place. At his second re-location, the individual is going to own and take with him less objects than he did previously. The inventory is going to decrease with every forced re-location. 40 During a time period of 40 years Romanians were forced to re-locate due to the politics regarding the urban planning of the time. Many families have been moved more than once. This re-location implied in most cases that a person had little time to gather any possessions and move to the new location. It also implied most of the times a lifestyle change. In this aspect, many home owners, raising crops and farm animals had to move to apartment buildings. Animals and crops were abandoned. Many objects were left behind for they couldn’t be carried and wouldn’t fit in the new space anyway. 40+25 For the past 25 years the tendency was to strive to move out of the late regime’s apartment units. Economy and globalization influenced the Romanian society in such a way that today 1 out of 6 people works abroad. 100 Romanians are still influenced by re-location. As a group they were forced to chose from their inventory the possessions they would carry with them. They had to decide what to abandon as they moved in order to travel lightly. The fundamentals of Romanian society (influencing and) influenced by architecture for the past 100 years are listed in the accumulation of possessions people had to save and move. Globalization influences people to travel lightly. This is the story of how we start a journey with a luggage that we later consume and abandon in order to keep moving: how we got from here to there (although Zeno’s paradox might state that we were just standing the whole time).