You perhaps know that I like to open my lectures or faculty meetings with a poem, and not usually one of my own. Well, before I do tonight, I would like to explain the idea I wish to put forward in what I call a confessional lecture. The idea is a simple one, a simple paradox in fact. It may not, however, have simple consequences. It is this. In our bid to take architecture forward, in an engaged, committed and responsible manner, in our constant agony and calls for re-engagement in what appears to be a confused if not lost discipline, we may be required to call on our irresponsible self. What does that mean? How contradictory can this be, especially when we have seen the production of spectacular buildings in the first decade of the 21st Century, some of immense wonder, others of immense embarrassment, whilst the financial world invites economic meltdown and communication breakdown. Initially we might try a little cleverness and see this as exploring ways to go beyond the diagram, beyond the dominant trends that distort our visions, beyond the desktop icons, and beyond the software that is already controlling us with no return to GO. The portal has appeared!