We need new concepts for trade fairs as places of chance encounters. This might also be showrooms and brand worlds in places where people and ideas converge. What we need are open forums for critical and competent dialogue. You will find lots of demands like this one expressed by Ranger Design in this special edition: The industry has given us an outlook of the near future and shows what they have achieved in the last few months, where they had to find alternatives, what new concepts evolved and how the trade fair format has changed in recent months (centuries).

Sabine Marinescu und Janina Poesch sind beide Architektinnen, Journalistinnen und Gründerinnen von PLOT - das Netzwerk im Bereich der Inszenierungen im Raum. Seit 2008 publizieren sie Print- und Online-Magazine sowie Fachbücher im weiten Feld der Szenografie.