Cultural life is usually a catalyst for social gathering and shared witness in a formal or semi-formal environment. This is why we talk of arts centres: they draw energy in and concentrate it, becoming in the process also centres for the control of production and diffusion, and expressions of the values of a city and its society. With ever more pressure placed on the social and physical value of the ‘cultural centre’, what can we say of increasingly standardized design? What can be learned from street-life in cities around the world that could be translated to the cultural centre? What are the future forms of spaces for visual or performing art? Reversible architecture, exhibition design and art installation as expression of new metropolitan uses: cultural production centres are propellers of initiatives that transform the identities of locations like green areas or residual ones with events of artistic or performing nature, for activities connected to the show business; events organized each time in different places with the appeal of changing things which allow to know and recognize the city and its urban spaces, by modifying their perception and their imagination. These experiences, faced with the increasingly frequent functional and architectural adaptations of most significant buildings in great metropolis, express the increasingly ambiguous boundary between temporary and permanent within transformation dynamics of public space. In contemporary, temporary thus generates a concrete modification of the existing city, more than any tool of urban planning, regenerating the experience of urban centres and archaeological areas, victims of freezing as an effect of preservation.
La vita culturale è di solito un catalizzatore di aggregazione sociale e di testimonianza comune in un ambiente formale o semi-formale. È per questo che si parla di centri culturali: attraggono energia e la concentrano, diventando allo stesso tempo anche centri per il controllo della produzione e della diffusione, ed espressioni dei valori di una città e della sua società. Una sempre maggiore attenzione viene posta sul valore sociale e fisico del “centro culturale”; allo stesso tempo, però, in modo contraddittorio, il modo di progettare questi spazi è sempre più standardizzato. Cosa possiamo imparare dalla street life delle città di tutto il mondo che possiamo assimilare a centri culturali spontanei? Quali sono le forme future degli spazi dedicati all’arte visiva o performativa? Architetture reversibili, allestimenti e installazioni come espressione dei nuovi usi metropolitani: centri di produzione culturale propulsori di iniziative che trasformano l’identità di luoghi come aree verdi o residuali con eventi di natura artistica, performativa, per attività connesse allo spettacolo; eventi organizzati di volta in volta in luoghi diversi e con la ricercatezza delle cose che cambiano, fanno conoscere e ri-conoscere la città e gli spazi urbani, modificandone la percezione e l’immaginario. Queste esperienze, a fronte dei sempre più frequenti adeguamenti funzionali e architettonici degli edifici più significativi delle grandi metropoli, esprimono il sempre più ambiguo confine tra temporaneo e permanente nelle dinamiche della trasformazione dello spazio pubblico. Nella contemporaneità, il temporaneo genera così una modificazione concreta della città esistente, più di qualsiasi strumento di previsione urbana, rigenerando l’esperienza dei centri urbani e delle aree archeologiche, vittime del congelamento quale effetto della conservazione.
Temporary Architecture / Ottaviani, Romolo. - STAMPA. - (2012), pp. 1-187.
Temporary Architecture
OTTAVIANI, ROMOLO
2012
Abstract
Cultural life is usually a catalyst for social gathering and shared witness in a formal or semi-formal environment. This is why we talk of arts centres: they draw energy in and concentrate it, becoming in the process also centres for the control of production and diffusion, and expressions of the values of a city and its society. With ever more pressure placed on the social and physical value of the ‘cultural centre’, what can we say of increasingly standardized design? What can be learned from street-life in cities around the world that could be translated to the cultural centre? What are the future forms of spaces for visual or performing art? Reversible architecture, exhibition design and art installation as expression of new metropolitan uses: cultural production centres are propellers of initiatives that transform the identities of locations like green areas or residual ones with events of artistic or performing nature, for activities connected to the show business; events organized each time in different places with the appeal of changing things which allow to know and recognize the city and its urban spaces, by modifying their perception and their imagination. These experiences, faced with the increasingly frequent functional and architectural adaptations of most significant buildings in great metropolis, express the increasingly ambiguous boundary between temporary and permanent within transformation dynamics of public space. In contemporary, temporary thus generates a concrete modification of the existing city, more than any tool of urban planning, regenerating the experience of urban centres and archaeological areas, victims of freezing as an effect of preservation.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.