RT Book, Section
T1 A different perspective on architectural design: bottom up participative experiences
A1 Cimadomo, Guido
K1 Urbanismo
AB The weight of the financial and real estate components in the present crisis, and their impact on millions of people give a renewed importance to the right to housing and the wider right to the city. The paper of architects in planning the city is also changing due to new social relations and the empowerment of citizens, and we have not to forget that scarcity is a great impulse for social and technical innovation, among them architecture. Henry Lefebvre’s “The right to the city” (Lefebvre 1968), can be considered the starting point for the understanding and reconnaissance of the right to urban life,transformed and renewed (Paquot 2012). At the present moment, the idea is growing that to change the life would be necessary to change the city, and the same concept of “right to thecity” should be filled with new contents. In this paper we are not interested in the already widely analysed contemporary city, at the base of the exponentially urban growth ofthe last century, but in what is left in-between: in the places where contemporary flows - economic, migration and IT - move to reach the cities, the non-places (Augé 1995). The interest is now focused in these satellites hubs, so thateverything in-between is not considered at all.These voids are anyway really important, and as they are the spot where this workshop is reflecting,it may be interesting deepening more first from an historical point of view, and thenobserving contemporary experiences dealing with the threats and opportunities they offer.
PB Association of European Schools Of Urban Planning (AESOP) - Wroclaw University of Technology
SN 978-83-7493-877-8
YR 2014
FD 2014
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/9112
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/9112
LA eng
NO Cimadomo, G. (2014). A different perspective on architectural design: Bottom up participative experiences. In J. Arana, & T. Franchini (Eds.), Strategies for the post-speculative city (pp. 125-135). Wroclaw: Association of European School of Architecture, Wroclaw Techological University.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026