If you look closely at the map of the world, you’ll find unrecognized states, micronations and curious border zones. These places exist in a kind of limbo, in the shadows of international relations. De Facto, a project by Jorie Horsthuis and Floor Koomen, explores these realms.
Notes from Bar Tawil (unclaimed), Transnistria (claimed), and Nutopia (unclaimable).
How could it be that despite decades of rigorous European unification, of open borders and largely adjusted standards of living, a virus was able to kill up to 40 times more people in one country than in another, only a few hundred kilometers away?
Wie konnte es sein, dass trotz jahrzehntelanger rigoroser europäischer Einigung, offener Grenzen und weitgehend angeglichener Lebensstandards ein Virus in einem Land bis zu 40 Mal mehr Menschen töten konnte als in einem anderen, nur wenige hundert Kilometer entfernt?
Fragen, Antworten, Quintessenzen.
Shoulders were slapped, fingers pointed, hearts fired up. Perhaps a little scuffle broke out after class, a boisterous wrestling over insults exchanged. Nothing to be concerned about. Acquiring knowledge was, after all, a combative affair.