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relationship between *representation techniques (drawings but also texts)
and socio-political moment. I was discussing with Aristide Antonas that
nowadays, within the economic crisis, I can see lots of students designing
dystopic projects and using black/white drawings, as if they found within
this techniques, a way to communicate the crisis =97social, political and
economical=97 through their architectural projects. He gave a fascinating
answer:*
*It is not only the communication of the crisis that matters. architects
can propose things to happen. Many people think I am a pessimist, working
for the ending of architecture. Not at all. I believe in another possible
architecture. Form is not the purpose in this architecture but it has to be
formed with a certain shape. its form is the reference to its possibility
to be read. I prefer reading than hearing, reading is a procedure that may
include a difficulty to decipher. *
I think we all need to "read" our cities as means of understanding again
what is happening in this crucial moments. Here is an article we wrote
about "reading the city". Is in Spanish but with Google Translator the
result is not that bad:
http://www.laciudadviva.org/blogs/?p=3D9384
Best, Ethel
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2012/3/12 Ana Vald=E9s <agora158 at gmail.com>
> This week I feel the discussion is changing tone and adding new voices ne=
w
> registers new shades of knowledge and feelings. We are having emotions
> here, too seldom discussed on electronic exchanges or in cyberculture. I =
am
> one of the few of my generation familiar with videogames, as a woman and =
as
> a writer I has always felt this kind of "otherness". Alicia describes the
> loneliness of the cities as opposed to the rural life. I agree and I can
> refer to my own experience as science-fiction reader and hardcore gamer.
> The game culture is urban, science-fiction is urban as well. Films as Bla=
de
> Runner and Avatar are not possible without the metropolis as metaphore.
> Ursula Le Guin, one of my favorite writers, an anarchist by own definitio=
n
> and the daughter of the influential anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, writes
> often of urban subjects confronted with new worlds to explore and coloniz=
e.
> Those new worlds are often pastoral idylls of sheer and eerie atmosphere,
> unbroken and free from cities in the way we know cities.
> In one of her most known books, "The dispossessed", she writes about
> anarchists exiled from Earth (Urras) to the Moon (Anarres) and coming bac=
k
> to Earth as ambassadors several centuries later.
> Anarres has developed an anarchistic and egalitarian society where
> violence and social unrest are unknown (but stagnation and bureucracy com=
e
> with the package too), Urras is a nightmarish place where war and mayhem
> rules.
> But Le Guin is too skilled as a writer to let her political views be
> stated plainly and pamphletaric, she is very keen of present the two
> societies as stagnant and frozen in time, utopia is always far from our
> reach.
> Ana
>
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As a personal experience I can say that I learned to love the concept of &q=
uot;city" mostly through literature. I felt so good when reading the s=
ubject of this e-mail to continue the conversation that we started the past=
week =97which I'm very thankful to all of you who has shared ideas, ex=
perience and knowledge with us!=97, that I can't help to gon on sharing=
some more thoughts.<div>
<p>Paris has always been the representation of this concept of "city&q=
uot; since those years when I discovered the <i>fl=E2neur</i> described by =
Benjamin, the Paris imagined while reading Cortazar's=A0Hopscotch or th=
e way that Georges Perec talked about his mother house. The dictionary desc=
ribes "city" as a "center of population", but it seems =
like we don=92t see the city just as=A0<i>=93a center of population=94</i>=
=A0anymore. Far away of the avant-garde discourse and aesthetic production,=
it looks like we=92re facing a globally-oriented debate which shows the fu=
ture of our cities dominated by ruins.=A0</p>
<p>From my experience, as architect and researcher, I can see nowadays a cl=
ose relationship between=A0<b id=3D"internal-source-marker_0.57273538457229=
73" style=3D"font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style=3D"font-size:1=
3px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-spac=
e:pre-wrap">representation techniques (drawings but also texts) and socio-p=
olitical moment. I was discussing with Aristide Antonas that nowadays, with=
in the economic crisis, I can see lots of students designing <i>dystopic</i=
> projects and using black/white drawings, as if they found within this tec=
hniques, a way to communicate the crisis =97social, political and economica=
l=97 through their architectural projects. He gave a fascinating answer:</s=
pan></b></p>
</div><blockquote style=3D"margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><div>=
<p><i><font color=3D"#666666"><b id=3D"internal-source-marker_0.57273538457=
22973" style=3D"font-family:Times;font-size:medium"><span style=3D"font-siz=
e:13px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-s=
pace:pre-wrap">It is not only the communication of the crisis that matters.=
architects can propose things to happen. Many people think I am a pessimis=
t, working for the ending of architecture. Not at all. I believe in another=
possible architecture. Form is not the purpose in this architecture but it=
has to be formed with a certain shape. its form is the reference to its po=
ssibility to be read. I prefer reading than hearing, reading is a procedure=
that may include a difficulty to decipher. </span></b></font></i></p>
</div></blockquote><div><p>I think we all need to "read" our citi=
es as means of understanding again what is happening in this crucial moment=
s. Here is an article we wrote about "reading the city". Is in Sp=
anish but with Google Translator the result is not that bad:<br>
<a href=3D"http://www.laciudadviva.org/blogs/?p=3D9384">http://www.laciudad=
viva.org/blogs/?p=3D9384</a></p><p><font face=3D"Arial"><span style=3D"whit=
e-space:pre-wrap">Best,
</span></font>Ethel</p><div>---<br>Ethel Baraona Pohl | <a href=3D"http://w=
ww.dpr-barcelona.com/" target=3D"_blank">dpr-barcelona</a><br>twitter <a hr=
ef=3D"https://twitter.com/ethel_baraona" target=3D"_blank">@ethel_baraona</=
a>=A0| <a href=3D"http://about.me/ethel_baraona" target=3D"_blank">about.me=
</a><br>
<a href=3D"mailto:ethel.baraona at gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">ethel.baraona@=
gmail.com</a><br><a href=3D"tel:%28%2B34%29%20626%20048%20684" value=3D"+34=
626048684" target=3D"_blank">(+34) 626 048 684</a><br><br><i style=3D"color=
:rgb(102,102,102)">Before you print think about the environment</i><br>
<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2012/3/12 Ana Vald=E9s <span dir=3D"ltr"=
><<a href=3D"mailto:agora158 at gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">agora158 at gmail=
.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 =
0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
This week I feel the discussion is changing tone and adding new voices new =
registers new shades of knowledge and feelings. We are having emotions here=
, too seldom discussed on electronic exchanges or in cyberculture. I am one=
of the few of my generation familiar with videogames, as a woman and as a =
writer I has always felt this kind of "otherness". Alicia describ=
es the loneliness of the cities as opposed to the rural life. I agree and I=
can refer to my own experience as science-fiction reader and hardcore game=
r. The game culture is urban, science-fiction is urban as well. Films as Bl=
ade Runner and Avatar are not possible without the metropolis as metaphore.=
<br>
Ursula Le Guin, one of my favorite writers, an anarchist by own definition =
and the daughter of the influential anthropologist Alfred Kroeber, writes o=
ften of urban subjects confronted with new worlds to explore and colonize. =
Those new worlds are often pastoral idylls of sheer and eerie atmosphere, u=
nbroken and free from cities in the way we know cities.<br>
In one of her most known books, "The dispossessed", she=A0 writes=
about anarchists exiled from Earth (Urras) to the Moon (Anarres) and comin=
g back to Earth as ambassadors several centuries later.<br>Anarres has deve=
loped an anarchistic and egalitarian society where violence and social unre=
st are unknown (but stagnation and bureucracy come with the package too), U=
rras is a nightmarish place where war and mayhem rules.<br>
But Le Guin is too skilled as a writer to let her political views be stated=
plainly and pamphletaric, she is very keen of present the two societies as=
stagnant and frozen in time, utopia is always far from our reach.<br>
Ana<br>
<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br><a href=3D"http://www.twitter.com/caravia158" =
target=3D"_blank">http://www.twitter.com/caravia158</a><span style=3D"backg=
round-color:#fff533;color:#333333;font:11px/11px arial;font-weight:bold;tex=
t-align:center;padding:2px 3px 1px 3px;margin:0px;display:inline;margin-lef=
t:1px;text-shadow:none">59</span><br>
<a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/" target=3D"_blank">http:=
//www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/=
food-history-and-trivia" target=3D"_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/food-histo=
ry-and-trivia</a><br>
<a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/" target=3D"_blank">http://w=
ww.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/litera=
ry-exiles/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/literary-exiles/</a><br=
><a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/" target=3D"_blank">ht=
tp://www.scoop.it/t/museums-and-ethics/</a><br>
<a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0" target=3D"_blank">http://www=
.scoop.it/t/urbanism-3-0</a><br><a href=3D"http://www.scoop.it/t/postcoloni=
al-mind/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/postcolonial-mind/</a><br=
><br>
mobil/cell <a href=3D"tel:%2B4670-3213370" value=3D"+46703213370" target=3D=
"_blank">+4670-3213370</a><br><br><br>"When once you have tasted fligh=
t, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there=
you have been and there you will always long to return. <br>
=97 Leonardo da Vinci<br>
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