mari

thoughts to mari'siences

. . .

it's kind of defined now, that mari's first project will deal with the topic of
housing in the greater porto region, more specific its coast line. here as
elsewhere, the traditional duality between urban and suburban areas is
vanishing. even if the development is called to be slower in portugal,
there is no need to wait for the changes to become more than obvious.
but let's stay to the ideas and facts behind this statement;
the distinction blurrs, because the areas are part of so called de- and re-
processes. these processes happen in multiple scales - local/global &
micro/macro - and simultaniously in our urban and social environment.
de-and re-urbanization can be observed everywhere without a defined
time frame, it seems that not only life styles overlap in our present time,
also urban development is split in multiple aims and therefore developments.
understanding the 21st century urban reality as a flexible, mobile and
fluctuating network of proceses leads us to new approaches in urban design.
how much we have to open our mind and stress the borders depends not
only on us designers, but we are in charge to promote our visions for urban
regions through the means of our designs to reach the society and its
decision processors.

that's what i think we have to achieve . . . how "far" we go, where we put
our focus on, depends on the processes inherent to the projects content.
strategies - as mentionend before in this blog - are an orientation, and i'm
optimistic, that we can develop mari's acts in an appropriate and fresh way.

we could start to develope our thoughts about an intervention in
the processing area of urban/suburban focussed on questions about
the private/public realations and distinctions. here is a list, which gives
some aspects of first categories related to our theme.
put some additions/extensions to it!

life styles - - - individuality/ values/ flexibility/ . . .

sense of community - - - space/ relations/ values/ . . .

communication - - - media/ interfaces/ data/ interactivity/ processes/ . . .

network - - - nodes/ channels/ structures/ event orientated/ dynamic/ . . .

time space relation - - - proximity/ speed/ . . .

urbanity - - - city space/ data space/ motion space/ nomad space/ . . .
. . .

Publicado por alexander glaser em agosto 11, 2004 02:10 PM