Interstices

Resumen
: Las grandes actuaciones del entorno urbano centran la atención social y política y se convierten en ejemplos de ideación creativa con vocación de futuro ciudadano. Sin embargo, hay resquicios imprecisos de la evolución estética de las escenas cotidianas que transcurren extrañas a la intención de intervención pública. Es el difícilmente controlable comportamiento natural en lugares determinados el que ha servido de centro protagonista de esta pro-puesta fotográfica
Intersticios.
Será soporte de reflexión para la obtención de un borrador personal teórico básico como propuesta de unas sanas actitudes de intervención en el espacio público.
Palabras clave:
Intersticios, esferas, resonancias, fotografía, lomografía, paisaje, creatividad, arte y naturaleza, arte y ciudad.
Abstract
: Important interventions in urban environment focus the social and  political attention and become examples of creative ideation with a vocation for citizens. However, there are some imprecise gaps in the aesthetic evolution of the daily scenes that take place, beyond the intention of state intervention. This is their natural behavior - unlikely to be controlled - in those particular places that  have worked as the pivotal centre of this photographic proposal, “Intersticios“. This will be the reflective support to obtain a personal theoretical basic sketch of  healthy intervening attitudes towards public space.

Intervention au colloque en deux actes "Travailler ensemble, Penser ensemble - Pluriprofessionnalité et transdisciplinarité dans les pratiques de soin, d’éducation, d’accompagnement", avec la participation des co-auteurs de l'ouvrage Aux frontières de la psychanalyse dirigé par Albert CICCONE, organisé par le CERCL Drôme Ardèche, acte 2, jeudi 17 octobre 2019, Valence, Cinéma Le Navire.

Si le désespoir est bien la mort de tous les possibles (Kierkegaard, Traité du désespoir), depuis la catastrophe du 4 août 2020, Beyrouth vit dans un état de profond désespoir. Lieu d’un impensable, toute rationalité échouant à trouver des raisons, cet état est pourtant ce qu’on ne peut renoncer à penser.

The aim of this paper is to give some insights in order to make the theoretical
construction of the concept of interstitiality possible in Marxist theory. For this
reason, it is worth to examine how, after reflecting on the crisis of Marxism
in the late 1970s, and after being confronted with the failure of social projects
directed by the state, Louis Althusser elaborates the elements for an “aleatory”
conception of historical passages which goes beyond any deterministic and
teleological model of transition, to think the passage beyond capitalism not as
transcendence, nor as development of “innate” potential, but as an “activation”
of elements of an ontology of the present.

In this paper I present a reflection on the influence of the concept of globalization in the forms of organization and the dissapearence of outside as an idea of a possible independent system or space. In line with the exhibition The Whole Earth. California and the disappearance of the outside and the conference Documents, Constellations, Prospects, I propose, on the one hand, an analysis about the narratives arising under the Californian counterculture. On the other hand, I address certain theoretical approaches and artistic practices as examples of how we are rethinking the forms of organization, not as independent from an organized system but as an interstice in that same system.

KEYWORDS: outside, globalization, the Whole Earth Catalog, forms of organization, interstice.

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In the present paper, we propose to offer a number of reflections on a possible approach to cultural difference in the study of Chinese architecture and landscape architecture. The modern study of these cultural fields comes to us within a double framework in which the modern disciplinary division of labour is overlaid by cultural divisions that have separated the understanding of traditional Chinese materials from contemporary debates of these fields, conceived as international in character but commonly narrated as descended from ...

Like any other discipline dealing with urban settlements and human relations, landscape architecture infiltrates from the larger scale to the local project, arriving to colonize interstices between the different layers of the city, scales of intervention and wide range of users. Urban lost space, voids within the urban fabric, become then a great lesson to understand how landscape can be a tool to deal with urban scape’s figures and not just a superficial practice to mitigate or embellish.
Parking lots belongs to that kind of lost spaces that have a secondary role within the urban machine but are mandatory to make it work. Forgotten from a design point of view due their lucrative character, their great impact on land use, their capacity to relieve the city of the increasing presence of cars and their importance within an ecological and sustainable framework where the proper use of its materials can help reduce impervious surfaces, fight heat islands, and contribute to the control of water runoff and effective groundwater recharge, make them claim our economic investment and our attention as designers of our urban environment.
Renowned landscape designer Diana Balmori stated that “a Parking lot seems an unlikely place to begin the design of a new building and landscape” but she managed to make it the main public space of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, part of a collecting rainwater and ecological operating system; it is no longer a problem to solve, but an element to delight visitors from the moment they park their cars.
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