After researching Barcelona urban grid and complexity, a location or context of each individual proposal – vacant or not- is selected. Each interventions will redensify, infiltrate, rearticulate or totally redo a block in the city. Building on the conversation from first term on form, the politics generated by the block in the city fabric, after being placed in their location, will be assessed and discussed. Collages and short texts will define each proposal critical position.
In addition, block proposals will be interrogated regarding their relationships with its immediate context and the passer-by and their capability in specific locations to engage with the city public space. In this sense, the context is brought forward as an important part of each proposal design.
Readings
– Pier Vittorio Aureli, 2008, “Rossi: The Concept of the locus as a political category of the city”, in The Project of Autonomy, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, pp.53-69.
– David Harvey, 2012, Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution, London; New York : Verso, 2012.
On politics, economics and the city of Barcelona
– Ricard Gomà, 1994, Public participation in a decentralized city: the case of Barcelona, Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials.
– Marc Parés Franzi, 2017, Social innovation and democratic leadership : communities and social change from below. Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. (Barcelona and New York after 2008 crisis)
– Juris, Jeffrey S., 2008, Networking futures: the movements against corporate globalization, Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press / (chapter Barcelona grassroots movements).
– Frank Eckardt, Javier Ruiz Sanchez, 2015, City of crisis: the multiple contestation of southern European cities, Jstor.
– Angel Smith, 2002, Red Barcelona : social protest and labour mobilization in the twentieth century. London ; New York : Routledge.
– Edgar Illas, 2012, Thinking Barcelona: ideologies of a global city. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.
– George Joffe & Alvaro Vasconcelos, 2000, The Barcelona process : building a Euro-Mediterranean regional community, F. Cass.
– Francesc Solanellas, 2020, Barcelona 92: a legacy case study. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
– Antoni Vives, 2018, Smart city Barcelona: the Catalan quest to improve future urban living, Sussex Academic Press.
