We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Agency Meetings of Collectives: Searching for a Sustainable Consumption of Space.
- Authors
Reis Maia, Marcelo
- Abstract
When we look at the city, we realize that we have a collective meeting. We notice a continuous movement in time and space where individuals, alone or in groups, merge into multiple, simultaneous events. From this premise, we consider the assemblage of these meetings as a chance to provide tools for urban design and an ephemeral, unpredictable, dynamic and flexible architecture. For some time, we have discussed the architecture of events as a possibility of performance for designers, architects and artists. Thinking about the architecture of events is to consider time as a facilitator of the classic dimensions of the project: area, volume and weight. Time in the classical dimensions results in displacement, velocity and intensity. It also results in waste of resources, cost, value and consumption. It is projecting area, volume, weight, but also design displacement, speed and consumption. This led us to observe and report a real case, looking for an agency of the urban environment at the moment/time when people get together in a collective meeting. This agency may tell us how we can organize daily life inside an urban system in order to optimize the displacement time and, consequently, reduce carbon emissions and overload in urban transport infrastructure. This work is based on a report of a series of spatial interventions and the introduction of new routines (small everyday life practices) in a community, pushing them to use the spaces' potential time searching for a sustainable consumption of space.
- Subjects
PUBLIC spaces &; society; URBANIZATION; ARCHITECTURE &; community; URBAN impact analysis; URBAN transportation policy; COLLECTIVE memory &; urban planning
- Publication
Spaces & Flows: An International Journal of Urban & Extra Urban Studies, 2011, Vol 1, Issue 4, p97
- ISSN
2154-8676
- Publication type
Article