city space: inside-out outside-in
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A space of exchange, which defines the city and its relevance. A space that stimulates ideas regarding sustainability in the city, i.e. its impact on the future, its identity and its capacity to be maintained long term / in the long run. The city space develops an interchangeable, adaptable, evolutionary and reproducible language which supports the interaction between the inhabitants and those who just pass through. Lecture at IED Istituto Europeo de Design of Milan, Centro Ricerche. By Klaus FruchtnisTRANSCRIPT
W W W . K L A U S – F R U C H T N I S . N E T
A space of exchange, which defines the city and its relevance. A space that s9mulates ideas regarding sustainability in the city, i.e. its impact on the future, its iden9ty and its capacity to be maintained long term / in the long run. The city space develops an interchangeable, adaptable, evolu9onary and reproducible language which supports the interac9on between the inhabitants and those who just pass through.
City space: inside-‐out outside-‐in
• Senseable city • Urban scenographies
• Appercep9on: space-‐9me
• Public percep9on, not only visible but also accessible
We are facing a new way of building and perceiving
the environment.
The way we describe and understand ci9es has completely changed.
Sensi.ve City. Interac.ve prac.ces in the contemporary metropolis. © Daniele Mancini
The ideal city should be an ar9culated succession of public places well set, giving visual coherence and organiza9on to the jumble of buildings, streets and space that generate and host social prac9ces.
The ideal city © Piero della Francesca
Berges de Seine © Jean-‐Christophe Choblet, Urban scenographer
© Cyrielle Duprez
New Babylon © Constant Nieuwenhuys
Living Pod © David Greene
Instant city © Peter Cook
Walking city © Ron Herron
How the city context becomes a tool of iden9ty and representa9on?
Don’t brand my city © Maria Roszkowska
Don’t brand my city © Maria Roszkowska
“The shape of a city, as we all know, changes more quickly than the mortal heart.”
Charles Baudelaire
Paris subway © Ikea
© Chair Blog
“The urban landscape, among its many roles, is also something to be seen,
to be remembered, and to delight in.” The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
Sample © The Rorschach inkblot test
Wouldn’t be more appropriate to talk about appercep<on instead of percep<on,
regarding city space?
© David Cousin-‐Marsy
The city has defined itself, since its origin, as a double territory with two specifici9es: to form a delimited space, and within that limited space, to connect to other territories. The elements of the city evolve in 9me allowing its territory to grow out of its geographical and tangible limits. As a delimited space it develops a public percep9on, not only visible (with the right to be overseen) but also accessible (with the right to be visited and experienced) by its inhabitants.
Jardin de Luxembourg, Paris
Jardin de Tuileries, Paris
Regards Croisés / Cross Looks © Klaus Fruchtnis
Archi-‐cho
ueJe
© Céline Desqu
ets -‐ V
ille d’Argne
teuil
New York through the nose -‐ Elas.c City walk © Josely Carvalho
Collec9ve projects
© Lucas Grandin & Kamiel Verschuren
Les Frères Ripoulain © David Renault & Mathieu Tremblin
© Goo
gle im
ages
© Royal de Luxe
“[…] Studying maps implies dealing not only with ar9facts – although some9mes maps are not material objects, but are embedded in spoken language or mental schemes – but also with the informa9on they convey, and with their effec9veness as tools for knowledge and ac9on. […]
An authorita9ve, ontological power: simply drawing a world as it is, as it should be, as it cannot be other than it is depicted; drawing the world as a society, a cultural milieu, or
professional users (travelers, traders, etc.) need it to be. […]”
The Sovereign Map, Chris<an Jacob
Exercise
Based on the following quote and the next page, make your own percep<ve map :
IMPULSIVE ANXIOUS
ADVENTUROUS SMART
Bibliography • Althabe, Gérard. Regards sur la ville, Edi9ons du Centre Pompidou, Paris 25 1994 • Augé, Marc, Non-‐Places: Introduc<on to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Verso, 1995
• Augé, Marc, In the metro,, Paperback, 2002 • Baudrillard, Jacques, Simulacra and Simula<on, Paperback, 1995 • Benjamin, Walter. The Arcades Project (The Passagenwerk), Harvard University Press, 1999
• Bordieu, Pierre, Language and Symbolic Power, Paperback, 1992 • Calvino, Italo. Le ciMà invisibili, Giulio Einaudi Editore, Italy 197 • de Certeau, Michel. The Prac<ce of Everyday Life (L'inven<on du quo<dien), University of California Press, Berkeley 1984 • Cummings, Neil. Reading Things, Chance Books, London 1993
• Jacob, Chris9an. The Sovereign Map: Theore<cal Approaches in Cartography throughout History, Edward H. Dahl and Tom Conley, 2006
• Gordon Cullen, Thomas, Concise Townscape, Paperback, 1961
• Gracq, Julien. The Shape of a City, Paperback, 2005 • Koolhas, Rem, Delirious New York: A Retroac<ve Manifesto for ManhaMan, Paperback, 1978 • Lynch, Kevin, The image of the city, The MIT Press, 1960 • Perec, Georges, Life, a User's Manual, Paperback, 1988
• Rancière, Jacques, The share of the sensi<ve, factory, 2000 • Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunc<on, The MIT Press, 2006 • Virilio, Paul, Lost Dimension, Paperback, 1991
• Virilio, Paul, The Aesthe<cs of Disappearance, Paperback, 2009
Internet
• htp://googlehouse.net/
• htp://www.brandingthecity.com/ • htp://senseable.mit.edu/ • htp://www.notbored.org/new-‐babylon.html
• htp://www.fabiofeminofantascience.org/RETROFUTURE/RETROFUTURE18.html • htp://citymovement.wordpress.com/tag/david-‐greene/ • htp://thefunambulist.net/2011/03/13/great-‐specula9ons-‐living-‐pod-‐by-‐david-‐greene/ • htp://lucas.grandin.free.fr/
• htp://www.lesfreresripoulain.eu/ • htp://unpacked.wordpress.com/2007/06/ • htp://regardscroises.blog.com/ • htp://www.elas9c-‐city.org