The issue focuses on the architectural responses to the growing demand for new ways of living. Its interest is on approaches that depart from the point where the driving force of the Modern Movement stopped: against the wall of the individualistic and atomizing tendencies of our time. Once historical distance and contradictions are acknowledged, we can wonder about the new ways in which the collective dimension of architecture can be expressed. The current circumstances and challenges demand new responses, related to new contradictions. In recent decades, the prominence given to the specificities of everyday life, different ways of living, or the irreplaceable diversity of personal experience, has been useful to corrode the political awareness of groups, associated to the places and spaces of collective living. The ideas of diversity and individual freedom have been overlapped and confused with the normalization of inequality. At the same time, the dismantling of public policies, including public housing, has aggravated in many countries a permanent situation of housing crisis. New ways of sharing space and living together have appeared in recent years as a critical response to this context. These experiences try to overcome the tendencies to social atomization and division (into families, couples or relatively isolated individuals), and sometimes even question the mechanical continuity of work and consumption cycles. Its goals are not compatible with the formation of homogeneous, isolated communities, based on the simple denial of what’s different. The idea of a collective life, and the forms and spaces associated with its future, are the subject of innovative architectural and urban research today.
Il numero affronta il tema della risposta architettonica alla domanda crescente di nuovi modi di abitare, che ricominciano laddove la forza propulsiva del Movimento Moderno si era fermata, di fronte al muro della tendenza individualista e atomizzante del nostro tempo. Riconosciute la distanza e le contraddizioni delle esperienze storiche, è possibile oggi chiedersi quali siano i nuovi modi in cui può esprimersi la funzione comunque pubblica dell’architettura. Le condizioni e le domande attuali chiedono nuove risposte, pongono nuove contraddizioni. Nelle ultime decadi, l’enfasi nella vita quotidiana, nelle differenze, nella diversità irrinunciabile dell’esperienza soggettiva, è servita a erodere la coscienza politica collettiva connessa a luoghi e spazi dell'abitare insieme. Diversità e libertà individuale hanno finito con il sovrapporsi e il confondersi con la normalizzazione della disuguaglianza, mentre lo smantellamento delle politiche pubbliche, compresa in molti Paesi quella relativa all'abitazione, ha aggravato il cronicizzarsi dell’emergenza abitativa. È in risposta critica a questo contesto che sono apparse, negli ultimi anni, nuove forme del condividere e abitare insieme, esperienze che cercano di superare le atomizzazioni (in famiglie, in individui isolati e sempre diversi) e la continuità tra i cicli di lavoro e consumo, ma anche le comunità omogenee, isolate, fondate sull’esclusione delle differenze. L'idea di vita collettiva, e le forme e spazi collegati al suo futuro, si presentano in questo quadro come un interessante oggetto di ricerche architettoniche e urbane innovative.
Editoriale. Vivere, abitare, condividere / Maria, Argenti; Martin Blas, Sergio. - In: RASSEGNA DI ARCHITETTURA E URBANISTICA. - ISSN 0392-8608. - 161(2020), pp. 5-6.
Editoriale. Vivere, abitare, condividere
Sergio Martín Blas
2020
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The issue focuses on the architectural responses to the growing demand for new ways of living. Its interest is on approaches that depart from the point where the driving force of the Modern Movement stopped: against the wall of the individualistic and atomizing tendencies of our time. Once historical distance and contradictions are acknowledged, we can wonder about the new ways in which the collective dimension of architecture can be expressed. The current circumstances and challenges demand new responses, related to new contradictions. In recent decades, the prominence given to the specificities of everyday life, different ways of living, or the irreplaceable diversity of personal experience, has been useful to corrode the political awareness of groups, associated to the places and spaces of collective living. The ideas of diversity and individual freedom have been overlapped and confused with the normalization of inequality. At the same time, the dismantling of public policies, including public housing, has aggravated in many countries a permanent situation of housing crisis. New ways of sharing space and living together have appeared in recent years as a critical response to this context. These experiences try to overcome the tendencies to social atomization and division (into families, couples or relatively isolated individuals), and sometimes even question the mechanical continuity of work and consumption cycles. Its goals are not compatible with the formation of homogeneous, isolated communities, based on the simple denial of what’s different. The idea of a collective life, and the forms and spaces associated with its future, are the subject of innovative architectural and urban research today.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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