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The [un]common place , a shared vision from Norway to Turkey, from Spain to Bulgaria, from Cyprus to Rumania, emerged from the more than fifty artists and projects documented in this book. Artists, institutions and society are searching for new relations to experiment unforeseen forms of cohabitation, mutual understanding and visions of the urban landscape. The book, organised in five thematic chapters, presents a European interpretation of public space resulting from complexity and difference, translation and memory.

■ The invisible community

(t.a.m.a -Temporary autonomous Museum for All, project of Katerina Koskina)

■ Aesthetics, politics and the institution

■ The memory of the place

■ The urban experience

■ On public intimacy

 Terms like flow, frontiers, network, mobility and control applied to readings of our cultural space. A new conception of its relationship with space and time, and how heavily these fundamental axes of experience weight on this very identity. In this regard public space can today be defined in terms of hyperspace that considers man a machine of desires useful only for determing the impulses of consumers redused to numbers multitudes.

The uncommon place proposes a key to reading the notion of public space through the gaze of artists who interpret with their works, restoring its complexity and diversity meaning and value.

Common place > common land

The territory becomes a shared place made up of an unspoken language, of creative situations. A place where its possible to find that cultural identification which makes different and unique experiences comparable or assimilable on the bases of common understanding and a common language.

Interesting terms of the book

Invisible community

Concrete utopia

Empowerment

Memory of a place

Utopia > distopia

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On March 22, 2007, Barcelona’s City Council started the Bicing service, a bicycle service for public transport. Once the user has their card, they can take a bicycle from any of the 100 stations spread around the city and use it anywhere the urban area of the city, and then leave it at another station.
Barcelona City Council is working day and night to expand, rationalize and improve the network of routes and cycle paths in the city. The city has created a ‘green ring’ that surrounds the metropolitan area of Barcelona with a bike path. There are currently 3,250 parking spaces for bikes at street level. Barcelona City Council is constructing a new underground car park for bicycles; this forms part of a pilot program to prevent theft and provide security for bicycle users.

 georgios machairas - magda osinska  

magda osinska  and me, created a more detail map about the sex culture

This was a week of discussion and deliberation for group 5, trying to figure out what direction we want to take the project and what we would like to produce as a final result. As a group we decided to divide up “Culture and Associations” into more specific pieces, as well as a more refined definition of what is “Culture”. We came to the conclusion that culture is more than museums and galleries, and that their is a sub-fabric of “anti-culture” present in Barcelona. This sub or anti culture, we decided, is broad, deep, and ever changing, and therefore very difficult to measure as a whole, but it is necessary to view at least parts of it as a comparison to mainstream culture.

Therefore we divided up into groups Museums and Galleries, Theaters, General Associations, Clubs, Skateboarding and Grafitti, and Sex Culture. And for this week we collected information on the groups and are starting the comparison.

This is a sketch that i make in the street Marques de Bardera. This street is full of prostitutes all day.

The second is about how i understand the movements of the people in the Macba area.  It’s like a fliper (the game).

Simcity societies allows you to create your own kinds of cities and shape their cultures and environments. You can make your cities green or polluted, contemporary or futuristic, rural or urban. You can create an artistic society or a police state, an industrial city or a spiritual community. In addition to building up simolians (the game currency), each city generates ‘social energies’. This energies come in six forms: INDUSTRY, WEALTH, OBEDIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, CREATIVITY and DEVOTION. Different building give off specific energies and citizens adapt according to the city’s vibe. By using this design players can toy with various social environments that include eco-friendly buildings or dystopian police-states . Or players they can even try for a free-wheeling eclectic society.

So we are not talking about a simple game, we are talking about simulation of life. It is an experiment with urban and architecture extensions. Many architects tried to imagine the architecture development in the future years.

 Like the architecture group Archigram. Formed in the 60s,  based at the Architecture Association of London. That was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects. An interesting example of their projects is The walking city  by Ron Herron. In an article in 1964 proposed building massive mobile robotic structures, with their own intelligence, that could freely roam the world , moving to wherever  their resources or manufacturing abilities were needed. Individual buildings or structures could also be mobile, moving wherever the owner wanted.

Another interesting example is the projects of Zaha Hadid. Her style links her closely to Modernism’s utopian aspiration.

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