To summarise all these considerations
suggests a conception of the urban context as a palimpsest, where different
experiments in, and expressions of, public life are criss-crossed. These situations,
which will be mapped in the investigation, demand their legitimacy by occupying
public space and, at the same time, they offer a possible use and meaning
for sites traditionally disregarded by conventional town planning (peripheral
zones, terrain vague, areas liberated from industrial activity, ..)
"Occasional cities. Post-it city and other formats of temporality"
is an investigative project which, in conclusion, fights to defend nomadic
public space, built ephemerally among traditional typologies of public places,
by means of occasional appearances, disappearances and uncontrollable reappearances.
When
devising an investigation from these assumptions different departure points
and points of view are prioritised:
The
importance of multiple situations overlapping the urban territory beyond the
predetermined patterns of architecture and urbanism
The
recognition, through each post-it city, of the reality of different collectives
that suffer varying degrees of marginalization.
Emphasis
on the capacity of the subject to react against regulations and legal dispositions
that restrict collective and individual liberties
An
approach to the enormous potential of the individuals within the city to devise
self-managed solutions to confront different wants and needs.
The
recovery of the notion of a utility of public space that allows recognition
of the citizen's role beyond the limits of the role of consumer
The
possibility of establishing a conception of public space as a place for ungovernable
temporality as opposed to the progressive determination of the same space imposed
by municipalities and the private sector
The
invitation to consider architecture as an exercise derived from the real exploration
of dynamic, cross-territorial processes.
A
reading of different post-it situations as models of the most elementary political
action: the free development of experience in the context of the “polis”
The
legitimation of intrusive or parasitic actions, or acts of recycling, as strategies
of the imagination, and for survival.
The
need to reinterpret the contemporary city from multiple situations of urban
experience in opposition to that reading encoded within the official skyline
A
comparative reading of the processes of erosion and/or emergence of public space
in different cities around the world