"The open space and solar are successive stages of the process of urbanization. A field left to grow becomes a wasteland. It is not until the core expands the urban wasteland becomes a field. When a construction company on the vacant lot is transformed into a site, the last stage before the final conquest. One day, a pile of sand or a cement mixer, or a pile of bricks. Then someone parked a car or an old couch. Gradually filled with mattresses, torn sweaters, plastic bags, car wheels, leaky buckets, mats, jerry cans, bars of metal or wood, debris, magazines, condoms, cat food containers ... And here the plot, this hybrid territory midway between nature and civilization. As the two materials concentrated areas, such as changing and remains unexplored, as it constitutes a continuous source of surprises, it is ideal as a pitch. Circuit outside the parents and relatives, the site allows more or less Paleolithic activities that help infants grow and integrate in a hostile and changing environment. A child piled bricks, other use a corner as urinary emergency, those playing mistry and beyond building a cabin that is no architectural wonder but it's yours.
The essence of the site is provisional. When raising a building, the site you will have lost everything, including the name of land. In a village not a serious loss because the suburbs are close, full of spaces to explore. But when a city loses a lot longer to have an open space, a laboratory, an exception. "
whist jugadors Els, Vicenç Pagès Jordà. Editorial Empúries. The translation is mine.
The effect is a centrifugal funnel that leads to population flight from the nucleus to the outer ring, a process removal caused some resistance in the reception areas before the arrival of individuals and families trying to escape from the center of the funnel. Observer 1 exemplifies this: "Those who live in the 534 and 900 when they can go to 1,000, and the 1,000 is going to the pastures, and those of The Potrero go to the canvas, and so on. And all of you are afraid of those leaps. " Observers take us to the center of the funnel. We stopped first in the 534, popularly known as Las Casitas, where according to observers 1 exclusion reaches its most extreme expression. We entering a sort of dump inhabited. Observer 2 says this is the ass of the city. The observer 1 explains the phenomenon as follows: "In the 70 built the first polygon to solve the slum from the center, which was aggravated by the number of people who came from the field. Politicians were polygons to accommodate all these people. At first there was some planning, but in the 80 put to the beast for many families who live very badly, and is already an entry in this neighborhood without a plan. The PSOE wins elections for 82 and says that housing is a public good, so in this area, which is the last to be delivered, there is no private property, and also the neighbors who come are shelters, shacks and others, and not know how to live, or pay rents, and start to sell the apartments that are not yours, and all this becomes a residential traffic, and so until recently, because the administration did not want to take over, and now it seems that yes, I do not know, because everyone has got used to sell your home, to engage the light, put a door where a window and vice versa, and for example, if you have a breakdown, the bathroom, remove the sink, and reappear many leaks and to dust the floors below. A neighbor of mine, Gypsy, pulled the tub to feed the horse. Also here, in two hours, if you go see a lot of people who are undead. A gypsy woman greets us from the first floor window. The site is broken, and asks us if we go up and see what , we recognized that the observers. The observer 2 indicates commercial premises opposite abandoned, burned inside and impacts Shot in the walls, which remind him of war games consoles. Later remodeling shows some blocks of houses, including hers. He does not understand why they left their portal enclosure with bars instead of closing it with walls.
(The above is a simulation from a real study that has facilitated me Charo. There is a revealing tale of what city it is, for Charo and because the phenomenon is applicable to Madrid. leave here an article that tells the City Council action on difficult areas, do not talk about it how has resulted in the relocation of the marginalized population. Some of the areas referred to are those mentioned by Esther in the previous post.)
libroides Came! Or the techno-digital Prometheus Research
"If I do not inspire love, I will inspire fear."
(Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus)
The June 25, 2010 landing in the English market's first magazine 3.0 (!?), in the background is Book a physical mixture + audiovisual electronic device. It seems that the cover * Includes on-screen video which can be contained and even space left to store video and incorporate itself. It is a traditional magazine with a cover animated visual, something like a TV embedded in a cover, without further interaction with the viewer.
What interests me now, from an anthropological point of the book as history of multimedia technology, is that the combination of media in this case creates a hybrid which, but for the primitive sound cards, books, yet we are not used, like the androids in which we're slowly becoming a force to overlap, and introduce the technology in our body, and not so much as thought of science fiction, creating anthropomorphic robots - we were not to want to read and inform us through the corresponding libroide-that the robot would bibliomorfo.
Despite the image of android robot of the future as bequeathed to us by science fiction, perhaps the monster created by Dr. Frankenstein still the most powerful this icon collective desire to give life to a set of previously inert elements, converted into machine mixing strength and scientific genius. Probably because the doctor does return to a human body-patch for several other other-the inert silence to the world of the living, where the monster struggles to live and feel full. This is the chip invisible that breathes as a mirror of a divine breath. Travel from there to the android Roy in Blade Runner, in its final farewell scene , it offers little change in the machine created to be like a man and willing to be fully in the consciousness of a fulfilled life.
The libroide comes, therefore, hand printed paper that is implemented, with some primitive-a multimedia electronic robot, as if to give a new and unexpected life to the old codex. A biblio-Frankenstein, against the model of our century, the tablet Ando, \u200b\u200biPad, which is pure metal robotic book aspiring to be more than book, humanoid in social interaction. Thus, the libroide to infiltrate into our lives and may you enjoy your golden years from now, in which paper and screen, ink and symbiosis can create unexpected bit waiting for one more book smart, "I always thought that only true if the reader is, while it is true that books create smart-intelligent readers, a book also more humanoid, where we reflect on its cover in our aspirations and, indeed, our vanities.
why I want to highlight another example libroide the phonebook that appeared last year in Asia, that only makes life complete by inserting your mobile phone in the center of the body of the printed book, and that teaches us page hit several videos and interactive games ... a child libroide to develop new relationships with small and increasingly digital natives. An interactive gimmick that traps mixed in the physicality and permanence of print, digital virtuality and volatility.
antes Many of these are run by marketing and the goal of a sublimation / provocation / challenge carnival on the cultural tradition by surprise that the hybrid produces publicly opposed celebrated as a new network. In addition to experience while creates a momentary excitement, no doubt open market - and perhaps a genetic monsters circus? - That in times of change, opposition, war, coexistence between supports and media are a reflection of how the old home without fear of robotic human body through (bookish now) on the one hand, and the mystery of what is like ourselves, but fabulous and buildable, on the other, and especially, travels within the social imaginary uncertainty and suspicion about what is not human but it closely resembles, in this case something that is not a book but it seems much, except for one detail: the revelation that turns on and starts move, and our digital face, as in a mirror, comes from the cover of that which we have a pure mechanization that could still control the stroke of page.
Prometheus was first stealing to the gods divine fire and the wisdom to humans, with these radically altered their environment, but Prometheus was punished for it. What will happen to the libroides? Will they create a new hybrid species difficult to accept, bookish talking about? Do we invade suspicious and unrecognizable forms? Have we changed already lectoides? What other aspiring libroides libroides or are already present but invisible? Can you think of new ones, now that we opened the science fiction book?
Meanwhile, as Deckard and Rachael ginoide at the end of Blade Runner , couple, man and machine in perfect bibliodistopía travel into an unknown future and unknown end.
"I hope you never see an anger me," says Esther "first sentence of a grungy paper that has accompanied me for a month, which is what I've been trying to regain the blog. I HAVE NO TIME FOR ANYTHING.
"Architecture does not generate city": Esther, an architect, is releasing these maxims, and when he realizes that I'm aiming gets angry. Then adds, writers like after we put great. I guess he was referring to architecture artistic when he said that it does not generate city, according to its hue: "Well, the Pompidou yes:
want to go see Sanchinarro, New Carabanchel and the Enlargement of Vallecas. "But it notes, is" he tells me twenty times. I say yes, but I have to aim.
According to Esther, from the 70's planning does not exist in Spain, and an example of this are the districts mentioned. Gallardón City Council is backing a signature architecture that does not create the urban fabric, ie, spaces that allow relationships, for which needs to be built to human scale, small streets designed for pedestrians and not cars; ; buildings of four or five floors, plazas. Esther says that the definition of the city is on how to solve the road section (ie the ratio between the road and sidewalk, which define the public space, and the building, which is the private space), and when they are raised moles avenues flanked by two lanes, with their areas of hedges and garages, all that is favorable to get home in our stroller to leave in our parking lot and up the elevator to the home: absolute primacy of the private space. Here there is no city, but urbanization. Intengramos with whom you only earn the same money than you, and that if the building has a pool and garden. In the city however, the housing does not matter, because everything is depending on what you can do on the street.
Add scrotumtightening Esther Madrid is the scale (human). For the amount of paseable street with shops, bars, trees, plazas and cars honking because pedestrians do not pass and the roads are not designed for vehicles.
Benedetta is also an architect, and has come to Madrid with Esther for a few days. We decided to go to the House, formerly part of all the guided tours of the city, and has been off the beaten path. The cable car is not that new to catetillos, the depressed and the city zoo has become very interesting and does not let you. From above we see a colony of Florida as part of my future visits, according to Esther, and by the House resolve to walk again, with the buzz of the attractions and shouts back, tropical birds must have escaped from cages, the cicadas, foreign transits a landscape of wooded pasture to another, hence the moor and then gardens (I've always walked in the opposite direction, crossing a road riddled with trenches that I no longer go, and following some of the roads where you put the hookers). Hundreds of Latinos ate and drank and screamed in an esplanade, or perhaps were football fields. One good thing that has made the Town Hall is to bury the M-30, which functions as a wall. Dear Gallardón, freaked when I leave the House to Prince Pio.
leave there a few pictures of the visit of Esther and Betta:
Country House Amusement Park in the background.
The funicular.
The colony in the area of \u200b\u200bFlorida for future research.
