«Public space is where people exchange glances and opinions»
Interview with Nadia Urbinati
Places with public value are those which allow people to represent themselves and, at the same time, recognise others.
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“Public space means knocking at your neighbour’s door and asking who he is”
The misleading sensation, held out by the new technologies, that we know a lot and know a lot of people, can be remedied by leaving one’s comfort zone and opening up to others in public space.
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Do You Like to Breath? Against the car I
This video essay belonging to the series “Soy Cámara” emphasizes the health risks and environmental Impact of road transport traffic. Why haven’t we had this debate earlier? What are the interests behind the irrational imposition of the automobile? What would cities be like without cars?
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«Old City Centres Have a Special Magnetism Which Attracts People»
Interview with Adam Zagajewski
Adam Zagajewski speaks about the importance he believes old city centres have as magnets attracting life, thus giving him a feeling of permanency and calm.
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«Bookshops are true social spaces of books»
Interview with Georges Didi-Huberman
When the lonely task of the writer comes to an end, when the book is published and is being distributed, this is, for Georges Didi-Huberman, a moment when public space comes into being.
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“Public Space is political because it defines who can stay in and who is left out”
Interview with Eric Fassin
Urban spaces, besides being public, are also political. They start out from the idea that all members of the public have access to it, but who has access to certain “public” spaces and who does not?
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Garden and Agora
Review of some avant-garde projects for public space drawn up in Europe, the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.
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Highlighted works
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PC Caritas
Melle (Belgium), 2016
Somewhere between a closed building and open space, an old psychiatric hospital pavilion has been partially saved from demolition to offer a peaceful refuge for patients, their families, and people walking in the public park surrounding it.
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Renovation of Skanderbeg Square
Tirana (Albania), 2017
The main square of Tirana has been renovated with multi-coloured paving made with stones from different parts of the country.
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Poblenou "Superblock"
Barcelona (Spain), 2017
A series of tactical urbanism operations has pedestrianised a “superblock”—nine blocks in the grid-designed Eixample district—in a pilot test of a future large-scale strategy for reclaiming public space from private vehicles and making it available for public transport, bicycles and pedestrians.
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Zollverein Park
Essen (Germany), 2019
After two decades of work, an old mining operation which was closed at the end of the twentieth century and subsequently declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site is now a large park combining industrial archaeology, green landscape, leisure installations, and cultural facilities.
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Cuyperspassage
Amsterdam (Netherlands), 2016
A new underground tunnel, more than a hundred metres long and decorated with Delft Blue tiles representing fragments of Dutch naval history, provides cyclists and pedestrians with a connection from the old city centre to quays on the IJ River waterfront.
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Stage
Dnipro (Ukraine), 2017
Several cultural groups of musicians, poets, and visual artists organise to carry out a temporary renovation of a Stalinist-era amphitheatre in the city’s central park by means of crowdfunding, collaborative design, and “self-construction” teamwork.
