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    June 24th, 2009

    CITY FUTURES 09

     

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    Lecture at the conference  “City Futures in a Globalising World. An international conference on globalism and urban change”

    Madrid 2009

    a. The objective of this work is to set off a process: the first word in a complex negotiation with numerous different parties. The problema is very complex, and architecture can only answer a small part of it.

    b. Facing preconceived structures to which the inhabitants have to adapt, here the city is understood as a process, which adapts continually to its social content.

    c. The current planning involves two parties, the public body and the market, which become representatives of the inhabitants, their rights and needs. We propose a model that includes the inhabitant themselves in the decision making, creating a city better adapted to the needs of its residents. Furthermore the development of the neighbourhood could become a source of cohesion and economy for the inhabitants, and not just benefit the external structures outside of it.

    d. We propose for this a model, not geometrical, that traces the city growth, based upon the following complementary elements: SEEDS AND VECTORS.

    e. The seeds are supposed to start a process of growth, whose future geometry and content is not defined in advance. They remain characterized by their program, especially by their relationship elements, which are the public equipments for different scales.

    f. The seeds are units of centrality and mobility. The urban rights to centrality and mobility are the most fundamental ones for citizens, and define the quality of their urbanity.

    g. We propose four types of urban seeds: colonization, stitches, regeneration, and green space.

    h. The vectors define movements and growth of each element from the logic to their own processes and relationships, and not from a geometry or external framework.

    i. The actual negotiated concept of the proposal causes the growth vectors to be extremely varied, based on principles of real time, minimization of the intervention scale, participation, and public space supremacy.

    j. The essential part of this investigation has been the search for new form to describe architectural processes, in which the traditional representation is completely inadequate: for this we have proposed the fragmentation of information into discursive atoms, thus transforming a conventional discourse into a reconfigurable one. The architectural project then becomes a tool of participation, of negotiation and decision making: another way of considering the architectural narrative, without impositions.

     

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