In 2018, I had the honour of writing to Bruno Latour to invite him to contribute to a catalogue for the exhibition Designs for Different Futures. To my delight, he wrote back promptly: dear colleague Many thanks for your proposition. I am not sure I can be of any help but I have been interested indeed in the way design can be understood to sum up a set of attitudes that are linked to what i call "landing on the terrestrial”.... Tell me if this interests you. Yours Bruno Latour It did. Interest us. And we went on to publish his brilliant text, the first paragraph of which is here in the image and printed below. RIP Bruno Latour. It was a privilege to live on the same planet as you. #brunolatour #designsfordifferentfutures “We don’t seem to live on the same planet...” — a fictional planetarium Bruno Latour for the catalog of Beyond the Horizon: Designs for Different Futures Architects and designers are facing a new problem when they want to build for a habitable planet. They have to answer a new question because what used to be a joke: “My poor fellow you seem to live on another planet”, has become literal: “Yes indeed, we do intend to live on a different planet!”. In the old days, when political scientists talked about geopolitics, they meant different nations with opposite interests waging wars on the same material and geographical stage. Today, geopolitics is also concerned with wars about the very definition of the stage itself. A conflict will be called, from now on, “of planetary relevance” not because it has the planet for a stage, but because it is about which planet you are claiming to inhabit and to defend.