In the past decades, the status of territories and everyday urban experiences has been strongly bound with notions of globalisation and migration. In this critical discussion, the effects of migration are identified according to multiple dimensions in order to generate knowledge on ‘space in transition’ by exploring how Senegalese traders who belong to the Mouride brotherhood make claims on and use space during their time in Italy. ‘Mourides’ are groups with very high mobility and exemplify ‘transmigrants’; they establish ‘circulatory territories’ by commuting between their land of origin and the host country – changing their whereabouts seasonally. At the architectural level, the key question raised by migration is how diversity can be acknowledged, valued, and accommodated by the built environment.
{"title":"Vu’ cumprà","authors":"Peter Volgger","doi":"10.17454/ardeth07.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth07.10","url":null,"abstract":"In the past decades, the status of territories and everyday urban experiences has been strongly bound with notions of globalisation and migration. In this critical discussion, the effects of migration are identified according to multiple dimensions in order to generate knowledge on ‘space in transition’ by exploring how Senegalese traders who belong to the Mouride brotherhood make claims on and use space during their time in Italy. ‘Mourides’ are groups with very high mobility and exemplify ‘transmigrants’; they establish ‘circulatory territories’ by commuting between their land of origin and the host country – changing their whereabouts seasonally. At the architectural level, the key question raised by migration is how diversity can be acknowledged, valued, and accommodated by the built environment.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47943598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ravaged by war, persecution and poverty immigrants have immediate needs of food and water, medicine and shelter. Responding to these needs is the appropriate response of an ethical society. But needs become more complex over time, and hospitality is no longer adequate for building an inclusive society. We need to transform the city into an infrastructure of inclusion and integration, and this demands transformation in the social and spatial arrangements of the host city. We are seeking to advance this agenda through the UCSD Community Stations, a network of field hubs located in immigrant neighborhoods across the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where research, teaching and service are done collaboratively with community-activist partners. We believe that communities and universities can be meaningful partners to co-develop inclusive public spaces, where the construction of citizenship can be mobilized through cultural action.
{"title":"The UCSD Community Stations: From Hospitality to Infrastructures of Inclusion","authors":"T. Cruz, F. Forman","doi":"10.17454/ARDETH06.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ARDETH06.05","url":null,"abstract":"Ravaged by war, persecution and poverty immigrants have immediate needs of food and water, medicine and shelter. Responding to these needs is the appropriate response of an ethical society. But needs become more complex over time, and hospitality is no longer adequate for building an inclusive society. We need to transform the city into an infrastructure of inclusion and integration, and this demands transformation in the social and spatial arrangements of the host city. We are seeking to advance this agenda through the UCSD Community Stations, a network of field hubs located in immigrant neighborhoods across the San Diego-Tijuana border region, where research, teaching and service are done collaboratively with community-activist partners. We believe that communities and universities can be meaningful partners to co-develop inclusive public spaces, where the construction of citizenship can be mobilized through cultural action.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45455721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this brief essay, I connect conceptualizations of dispossession with those of conjuncture, specifically conjuncture as an ethico-political category. Interested in the long history of racial capitalism and its iterative spatialities, I seek to foreground the contingency of the present and the politics made possible across time and in time. Drawing on postcolonial thought, especially that attentive to Blackness, I make an argument about the necessity of understanding urban transformations in relation to the present history of colonial settlement and removal.
{"title":"“The Fire This Time”: The Politics of Contingency","authors":"Ananya Roy","doi":"10.17454/ARDETH06.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ARDETH06.04","url":null,"abstract":"In this brief essay, I connect conceptualizations of dispossession with those of conjuncture, specifically conjuncture as an ethico-political category. Interested in the long history of racial capitalism and its iterative spatialities, I seek to foreground the contingency of the present and the politics made possible across time and in time. Drawing on postcolonial thought, especially that attentive to Blackness, I make an argument about the necessity of understanding urban transformations in relation to the present history of colonial settlement and removal.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48524914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
While narratives tend to show architectures as coherent results of a plot in which the abilities of involved people are far more relevant than the fate, actual projects are more like the conjuncture of various trajectories: involving actors, factors, aims, preferences, good (and bad) intentions, most of which will remain unknown. Tracing all these elements is indeed impossible but, for the architect, sailing through them all along the process is mandatory. The paper investigates how architectural design can exploit the so-called potential intrinsic to the radical contingency of all processes, instead of suffering their (apparent) haphazardness. By changing architectural design into a floating sequence of strategies and tactics, it is possible to overcome the facticity of the process, thus successfully promoting the project as an aim. Such an attitude may be enhanced in projects of all scales and in any moment of the process, for architects to gain a creative and purposeful role.
{"title":"Radical Contingency. Strategy and Tactics in Architectural Design","authors":"Carlo Deregibus","doi":"10.17454/ARDETH06.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ARDETH06.15","url":null,"abstract":"While narratives tend to show architectures as coherent results of a plot in which the abilities of involved people are far more relevant than the fate, actual projects are more like the conjuncture of various trajectories: involving actors, factors, aims, preferences, good (and bad) intentions, most of which will remain unknown. Tracing all these elements is indeed impossible but, for the architect, sailing through them all along the process is mandatory. The paper investigates how architectural design can exploit the so-called potential intrinsic to the radical contingency of all processes, instead of suffering their (apparent) haphazardness. By changing architectural design into a floating sequence of strategies and tactics, it is possible to overcome the facticity of the process, thus successfully promoting the project as an aim. Such an attitude may be enhanced in projects of all scales and in any moment of the process, for architects to gain a creative and purposeful role.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46084590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In its current configuration, Prishtina, like the whole Kosovo, represents an ecosystem which is hostile to the design practice, especially with regards to a critical architectural approach. The institutions, still facing the complex State-building processes, were not able to positively affect the current deficient regulatory framework, which contributes to the marginalization of the designer.In a context of sublegal customs and controversial systems of contracts awarding, far from the diffusion of parametric design systems, the challenge for the architects could be to conceive every accidental design occasion as a chance to contribute to a recoding, through new forms of knowledge production.Moving from the temporary intervention The Yellow Pavilion, designed by the young firm Architecture for Humans, this visual essay explores ways of graphic systematization of the design process data. The installation hosted in Prishtina in May 2019 is used here instrumentally for a speculative hypothesis to define a new tool to support the empowerment of local designers.
{"title":"Un’azione del progetto nello State-building del Kosovo alcune esplorazioni grafiche","authors":"Valerio Della Scala","doi":"10.17454/ARDETH06.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ARDETH06.13","url":null,"abstract":"In its current configuration, Prishtina, like the whole Kosovo, represents an ecosystem which is hostile to the design practice, especially with regards to a critical architectural approach. The institutions, still facing the complex State-building processes, were not able to positively affect the current deficient regulatory framework, which contributes to the marginalization of the designer.In a context of sublegal customs and controversial systems of contracts awarding, far from the diffusion of parametric design systems, the challenge for the architects could be to conceive every accidental design occasion as a chance to contribute to a recoding, through new forms of knowledge production.Moving from the temporary intervention The Yellow Pavilion, designed by the young firm Architecture for Humans, this visual essay explores ways of graphic systematization of the design process data. The installation hosted in Prishtina in May 2019 is used here instrumentally for a speculative hypothesis to define a new tool to support the empowerment of local designers.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45637849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In hisIl rovescio del diritto, Francesco Galgano, a master of civil law, played with the term “diritto” (law, right), pointing out that it was the only noun whose opposite does not exist. It is not an Italian peculiarity, because Recht, right, droit do not accept opposites as well and it is a serious matter. The law, in fact, as a complex of commands and norms whose disregard is punished, does not allow a “counter-right”. It is ontological substance: if the rules are serious, it is not given an opposite, negative substance. The right “is” in itself, and the rules can be respected or violated but the “non-norm” or the contrary of the norm cannot exist. It is true that law does not have the monopoly of rules (there are also more intimately strong rules, such as ethical and faith-based, and impassable rules, such as those of physics), yet it is true that it is the only one who has the power to make black out of white, unjust out of the just, false out of the true and when it does so, it contains within itself the contradiction and makes it its own. It is the right to be, when it wants, itself and the opposite of itself.
{"title":"Progetto e diritto perfetto","authors":"M. Dugato","doi":"10.17454/ardeth04.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth04.10","url":null,"abstract":"In hisIl rovescio del diritto, Francesco Galgano, a master of civil law, played with the term “diritto” (law, right), pointing out that it was the only noun whose opposite does not exist. It is not an Italian peculiarity, because Recht, right, droit do not accept opposites as well and it is a serious matter. The law, in fact, as a complex of commands and norms whose disregard is punished, does not allow a “counter-right”. It is ontological substance: if the rules are serious, it is not given an opposite, negative substance. The right “is” in itself, and the rules can be respected or violated but the “non-norm” or the contrary of the norm cannot exist. It is true that law does not have the monopoly of rules (there are also more intimately strong rules, such as ethical and faith-based, and impassable rules, such as those of physics), yet it is true that it is the only one who has the power to make black out of white, unjust out of the just, false out of the true and when it does so, it contains within itself the contradiction and makes it its own. It is the right to be, when it wants, itself and the opposite of itself.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43587789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article conceives an urban project as a mechanism that traces rights on the ground. First, and most relevantly, a project separates public and private land and defines what can be built. At another level, design decisions involve a broad range of permissions and obligations. Thus, urban projects act as a form of regulation, like planning, albeit a specific form with its own rules and limits. The paper explores a two-step process. First, in the policy phase, some regulatory decision-making is delegated to design. Then, design challenges the value assumptions underlying decision-makers’ actions. ‘Regulation by design’ arranges material objects in space and activates those spatial mechanisms.
{"title":"Tracing Rights on the Ground: Spatial Controversies around Urban","authors":"M. Cremaschi","doi":"10.17454/ardeth04.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth04.11","url":null,"abstract":"This article conceives an urban project as a mechanism that traces rights on the ground. First, and most relevantly, a project separates public and private land and defines what can be built. At another level, design decisions involve a broad range of permissions and obligations. Thus, urban projects act as a form of regulation, like planning, albeit a specific form with its own rules and limits. The paper explores a two-step process. First, in the policy phase, some regulatory decision-making is delegated to design. Then, design challenges the value assumptions underlying decision-makers’ actions. ‘Regulation by design’ arranges material objects in space and activates those spatial mechanisms.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42494550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article questions the link between public space and the physical features of it. The hypothesis is that in order to make effective the right to public space (borrowing the meaning of the locution from Henri Lefebvre), this latter should be dense of uses and users. The condition of density would spontaneously produce a social control on public space. Density depends upon the dimension and shape of the public space, as well as from its perceived aesthetic value. Hence, it is useful to reflect on the physical features of a public space, before urban political decisions on it are taken. For instance, not all streets are fit for becoming pedestrian: some might be too large, and hence after becoming pedestrian they could not support a critical plurality and density, and they would lose attractivity together with social control. The case study is the historical center of Turin.
{"title":"Sezioni trasversali urbane. Pensieri di architettura per rendere attrattive, affollate e democratiche le strade delle città","authors":"Manfredo Nicolis di Robilant, Paolo Mellano","doi":"10.17454/ardeth04.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth04.04","url":null,"abstract":"This article questions the link between public space and the physical features of it. The hypothesis is that in order to make effective the right to public space (borrowing the meaning of the locution from Henri Lefebvre), this latter should be dense of uses and users. The condition of density would spontaneously produce a social control on public space. Density depends upon the dimension and shape of the public space, as well as from its perceived aesthetic value. Hence, it is useful to reflect on the physical features of a public space, before urban political decisions on it are taken. For instance, not all streets are fit for becoming pedestrian: some might be too large, and hence after becoming pedestrian they could not support a critical plurality and density, and they would lose attractivity together with social control. The case study is the historical center of Turin.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47096945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Community Land Trust is a non-profit corporation which makes possible and preserves the access to land as a resource for different kinds of needs and rights, from productive activities to housing. I argue the concept of property at the core of the CLT model is based on recognition as the reversal of exclusion: recognition of the subjects interested in the use of a given resource and hence concerned for its preservation. Recognition of their right and their capacity to take care of it and to govern it. Which role could have the project – at an urban and architectural scale – in making possible such a different approach to the ownership and the governance of resources? I will try to answer this question by referring to the CLT in Brussels, having contributed to the design process of one of their first projects.
{"title":"Riconoscimento e responsabilità. Il ruolo del progetto nel Community Land Trust di Bruxelles","authors":"Verena Lenna","doi":"10.17454/ardeth04.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth04.03","url":null,"abstract":"A Community Land Trust is a non-profit corporation which makes possible and preserves the access to land as a resource for different kinds of needs and rights, from productive activities to housing. I argue the concept of property at the core of the CLT model is based on recognition as the reversal of exclusion: recognition of the subjects interested in the use of a given resource and hence concerned for its preservation. Recognition of their right and their capacity to take care of it and to govern it. Which role could have the project – at an urban and architectural scale – in making possible such a different approach to the ownership and the governance of resources? I will try to answer this question by referring to the CLT in Brussels, having contributed to the design process of one of their first projects.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46538357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article presents the socio-economic stratification in Bogota, Colombia, and discusses the socio-spatial elements of its constitution and development. The spatial classification of blocks and neighbourhoods based on services, amenities and building qualities in Bogota, produces a surrogate spatialization of economic divisions. It maps, classifies and excludes but is also appropriated and contested as a hierarchical, sociocultural spatialization of residents. Taken up in the civic culture, strata has become a pattern of identification, stereotypes and discrimination that normatively striates the citizenship of Bogotanos identifying who should and should not go where.
{"title":"Spatializing Stratification: Bogotá","authors":"J. D. Guevara, R. Shields","doi":"10.17454/ardeth04.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17454/ardeth04.13","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents the socio-economic stratification in Bogota, Colombia, and discusses the socio-spatial elements of its constitution and development. The spatial classification of blocks and neighbourhoods based on services, amenities and building qualities in Bogota, produces a surrogate spatialization of economic divisions. It maps, classifies and excludes but is also appropriated and contested as a hierarchical, sociocultural spatialization of residents. Taken up in the civic culture, strata has become a pattern of identification, stereotypes and discrimination that normatively striates the citizenship of Bogotanos identifying who should and should not go where.","PeriodicalId":34671,"journal":{"name":"Ardeth","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44524838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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