2025-07-05 00:00:00 Since a couple of years, for the first time in history, more people live in urban than in rural areas. Within the 21st century, more than ten billion people will inhabit the earth. People need more space, animals habitats are being threatened, several species are becoming extinct. How do we deal with this constellation? Since 1950, the urban world population has risen by over three billion people. The world's population continues to grow from today’s 7.6 billion to an estimated 9.8 billion people in 2050. People are in need of more space, and animals habitats are being threatened. Some animal species have died out and become extinct; such as the European Terrestrial Leech, the Pyrenean Ibex, and the Chinese Freshwater Dolphin. Every day, a three-digit number of species perish. From a European perspective, many animals disappear in remote areas unnoticed. How do people and artists deal with this constellation? Media art, lyrics, facts about population development and animal extinction are brought together in a unique interdisciplinary project: the recipient is taken on a virtual flight through a metropolis in a playful way, without showing a moral finger. High-rise buildings built of text and images form a three-dimensional book. The recipient flies self-controlled through a transparent architecture, consisting of numbers of population of the United Nations (facts), haikus form the author’s individual viewpoint (poems) and of animal species declared extinct in the 21st century. The project implicitly raises questions without explicitly answering them: