EveryVille Competition by La Biennale di Venezia -  project 11 of 40
HON. MENTION
GRAMSCI53 page 2 (page 1)
Giacca Ersilia (ITALIA), Matteo Giammartini (ITALIA), Juan López Cano (SPAIN)
URBAN DESERT
Urban desert is conceived as void –both programmatic and containing proposals– open to something unpredictable and strictly connected to its reality. It generates a non-built Architecture: forms and spaces develop thanks to the understanding of desires and individual needs, without any preconceived models, thus defining open, temporary and progressive features. The actions of every single citizen constitute the identity of a place in the present time and leave traces for its future memory:a link to a more free and contextualised new way of thinking. Architecture is conceived no more as a given theoretical and practical schema, but as an instrument of collective and participatory planning, which could be able to transform the potential reality of a more heterogenic and well balanced society into concrete elements. Micro policies of urban space, which can be able to reconcile individual freedom and collective vision. No need to invent a concept but just associations to be discovered.