The decrease as an alternative to over-design of cities
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The decrease as an alternative to excess design of cities 
Francesco Cingolani
would like to share with readers and authors of The Living City my thoughts on the subject of Décroissance - or decline - inspired in part by some
texts published in this blog. My intention is to focus on the relationship between the decrease and the role in the future, could play an architect.
these reflections I would start with a phrase Kate Soper I found in a text by Serge Latouche [1] which states, precisely, a view was expressed that a long time: "Those who advocate a less materialistic consumption are often presented as ascetics Puritans trying to give a spiritual orientation to the needs and pleasures. But this view is misleading for several reasons. We could say that the modern consumer is not concerned enough about the pleasures of the flesh, which is not involved in sensory experience, which is too obsessed by a range of products that filter sensory and erotic pleasures and take us away from them. Much of the goods that we consider essential to a high standard of living are more anesthetic that favors a sensual experience, more greedy than generous in terms of friendliness, good-neighborly relations, unstressed life, silence, smell and beauty ... a green consumer not involve either a reduction in living standards, not a mass conversion to the extra-worldliness, but rather a different concept of what living means. " Why this text I find it significant? is mainly due to the common misconception that generates the notion of decline, often confused with a sense of sacrifice or resignation for reasons of ethics or survival. Soper gets a confusion yet to overcome: the decrease would not involve "giving up" as the only solution to save themselves, but should be interpreted in positive terms, as a way to increase our standard of living. In our materialistic culture decline word has a negative connotation, so we tend to relate to a deadweight loss. As if our ideal be to continue to consume as before, but unable to do so, the most viable solution was to try to decrease.
Soper's paragraph is to express the opposite of this idea. This would not be an end of development, but a final development of consumerism and materialism.
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Soper's paragraph is to express the opposite of this idea. This would not be an end of development, but a final development of consumerism and materialism.
Vincent believes "the ecological crisis is primarily a sign of political impasse, cultural, philosophical and spiritual development of our civilization" [2]. I propose adding to this analytical account of the crisis, another of a more operational: the economic and ecological crisis offers us an opportunity to improve our quality of life.
believe that as architects, we feel the need to move the scope of the analysis to action. An architect, to be someone who builds, is someone capable of turning thoughts into actions analytical space. It is therefore important to understand the nuances that emerge from the theory of decline, its understanding as a model of progress and development not waiver. This change in perspective undeniably affect at the time approaching, the way of making architecture.
"What would happen if the school taught us to deconstruct rather than to build?"
Ethel Baraona raised this question in an article
header I reproduce the picture above. The poetic and symbolic impact of this photograph is certainly extraordinary: the translation technocentric system image that is collapsing, thereby requiring the emergence of new patterns of worldview.
The debate launched by Ethel've generated lots of comments and discussions about the end of deconstruction, designed by Jacques Derrida. My intention in this paper is however to move the debate to the idea of \u200b\u200bnon-construction and the implications that generate the concept of the architect's work. Both
commentary article in Baraona how to create stories
, as the article "
Do nothing, urgently " Ion Cuervas-Mons, remind us an example of non-construction of an impact similar to that cited above: Lacaton architects and Vassal, after an analysis of the square Léon Aucoc of Bordeaux, decided that their project would "do nothing". The place was in itself a beautiful place where people feel good, a place with a daily life of quality. No-construction? This example of "do nothing" also leads me to an interview with Rem Koolhaas. In it, naturally speaking and artificiality, explained as "the architecture is discussed in a permanent doubt .[...] duality between the city has been distorted by over-design. The design as a means of exclusion. " This statement made by one of the most important architects of the star system, automatically makes me think the picture of the wind, something that falls to the ground with resignation as heralding a change. The designer himself acknowledges a problem in the "over-design." Suddenly this sentence mixing with paragraph Kate Soper, we could say that too much design is more stingy than generous in terms of friendliness, relations good neighborliness, of life away from the stress of silence, smell and beauty. These reflections surprisingly fit with a vision of the city where the horizontal management and the creation of citizens coexist with a network of centralized powers. What I call white public spaces, and
Domenico Di Siena
called public spaces unfinished space is the translation of this new understanding of urban and citizenship. White spaces, characterized by its unfinished state, are in production-defined: no user action-citizens, these spaces do not end up to exist.
Therefore, it would pass such a vision of producer / consumer, in which the architect and his client spaces occur - "over design" - and the city consumes, to a system of prosumers integrated into the political, administrative and urban cities. In this sense, the architect would not be a producer / constructor and defined more as a manager / administrator of space, or perhaps as a designer of urban processes and a catalyst for citizenship and vitality. Their activities would be also more extensive: the architect would not be limited to construct or "making things" but rather to analyze, advise, opinions and perhaps produce only at the end, to build or simply to "do (almost) anything." In recent years speaks volumes about hybrid spaces. I think all of the above suggests that the architectural profession should also hybridize, go from being a clear and focused profession a diffuse and extensive. The architect is thus transformed into the point of interconnection between citizens, politicians, space and creativity.
All this leads me to think that the philosopher believe that as architects, we feel the need to move the scope of the analysis to action. An architect, to be someone who builds, is someone capable of turning thoughts into actions analytical space. It is therefore important to understand the nuances that emerge from the theory of decline, its understanding as a model of progress and development not waiver. This change in perspective undeniably affect at the time approaching, the way of making architecture.
"What would happen if the school taught us to deconstruct rather than to build?"
Ethel Baraona raised this question in an article
header I reproduce the picture above. The poetic and symbolic impact of this photograph is certainly extraordinary: the translation technocentric system image that is collapsing, thereby requiring the emergence of new patterns of worldview.
The debate launched by Ethel've generated lots of comments and discussions about the end of deconstruction, designed by Jacques Derrida. My intention in this paper is however to move the debate to the idea of \u200b\u200bnon-construction and the implications that generate the concept of the architect's work. Both
commentary article in Baraona how to create stories
, as the article "
Do nothing, urgently " Ion Cuervas-Mons, remind us an example of non-construction of an impact similar to that cited above: Lacaton architects and Vassal, after an analysis of the square Léon Aucoc of Bordeaux, decided that their project would "do nothing". The place was in itself a beautiful place where people feel good, a place with a daily life of quality. No-construction? This example of "do nothing" also leads me to an interview with Rem Koolhaas. In it, naturally speaking and artificiality, explained as "the architecture is discussed in a permanent doubt .[...] duality between the city has been distorted by over-design. The design as a means of exclusion. " This statement made by one of the most important architects of the star system, automatically makes me think the picture of the wind, something that falls to the ground with resignation as heralding a change. The designer himself acknowledges a problem in the "over-design." Suddenly this sentence mixing with paragraph Kate Soper, we could say that too much design is more stingy than generous in terms of friendliness, relations good neighborliness, of life away from the stress of silence, smell and beauty. These reflections surprisingly fit with a vision of the city where the horizontal management and the creation of citizens coexist with a network of centralized powers. What I call white public spaces, and
Domenico Di Siena
called public spaces unfinished space is the translation of this new understanding of urban and citizenship. White spaces, characterized by its unfinished state, are in production-defined: no user action-citizens, these spaces do not end up to exist.
Therefore, it would pass such a vision of producer / consumer, in which the architect and his client spaces occur - "over design" - and the city consumes, to a system of prosumers integrated into the political, administrative and urban cities. In this sense, the architect would not be a producer / constructor and defined more as a manager / administrator of space, or perhaps as a designer of urban processes and a catalyst for citizenship and vitality. Their activities would be also more extensive: the architect would not be limited to construct or "making things" but rather to analyze, advise, opinions and perhaps produce only at the end, to build or simply to "do (almost) anything."
Lorenzo Giacomini
, in a conference presentation
Urban
Hybridization in Milan, was right when they proposed to use the hybrid not as an aesthetic category, but as an ontological principle. That is, as something that characterizes all there, which means it can run as a tool for understanding and action in the contemporary world. REFERENCES [1] Bernard, Michel et al. (Ed.), Objectif Décroissance - Vers une société harmonieuse, Parangon / Vs, 2005 [2] idem ___ Báscones Pere, Green Culture,
www.perebascones.com/pensamentsnomades/?p=17
Lorenzo Giacomini, The inexplicable Mountain - Roots of a strange passion,
http://www.studifilosofici.it/inspiegabile_montagna.htm Vicente Verdu, La creatividad de la escasez, El País,
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/creatividad/escasez/elpepicul/20100520elpepicul_8/Tes ___ Urban Conferencia Hybridization,
www.urbanhybridization.net/ Colectivo Basurama,
www.basurama.org Thinkark Group,
www.thinkark.com CTRLZ Architectures, For All The Cows,
http://ctrlzarchitectures.com/?p=74 ___
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