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This book addresses the status of the periphery and of the peripheric -the state of being around something- as an antiquated space, a space fallen into disuse or discredit, where all defunct fashions are absorbed, and takes it as a starting point for revising the idea in which a recently acquired historical perspective plays an essential role. That as a common place, the(...)
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This book addresses the status of the periphery and of the peripheric -the state of being around something- as an antiquated space, a space fallen into disuse or discredit, where all defunct fashions are absorbed, and takes it as a starting point for revising the idea in which a recently acquired historical perspective plays an essential role. That as a common place, the(...)
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This book addresses the status of the periphery and of the peripheric -the state of being around something- as an antiquated space, a space fallen into disuse or discredit, where all defunct fashions are absorbed, and takes it as a starting point for revising the idea in which a recently acquired historical perspective plays an essential role. That as a common place, the periphery belongs to the past is an advantage which, along with the interventions making up this book, we intend to make good use of. The first part of this book, "Prepositions: A Journey to the Periphery", attempts to juxtapose examples of architectural and photographic interventions that have contributed, and contribute, to turning the periphery into an easily identifiable spatial signifier, and likewise to propose a rereading of these spaces which permits us to decipher their more or less diverse yearnings, utopias and social spaces. In all these interventions the periphery is always comparable to a concrete geographical reality to which one directs oneself, towards which one travels, with the aim of appropriating it, of defining it. This always involves the same preposition: around. The second part, "Propositions: The Journey of the Periphery", will be taken up with the rehabilitation or reutilization of the concept of the periphery. Once the concept of the periphery is considered as being obsolete, it is possible -and this is the chief theoretical contribution of this project- to recycle it, to convert the preposition "around" into a theoretical proposition that gives a number of new twists to the concept and explores its possibilities. The projects and photos included in this second part reflect a fundamental change in the perception of the periphery. The periphery escapes its geographical location and occupies the city's historic center, rural/natural surroundings, technological fantasies, the social utopias of postmodernity, etc. The periphery ceases to mean "around" as a physical location and becomes an invitation to reflection "around" the periphery as both concept and possibility. This doesn't so much mean a colonizing journey to the periphery, as in the first part, as a journey of the periphery to places where it was proscribed until quite recently. The periphery turns out to mean a mobile discourse that uses the common places of the classical periphery in order to dislodge and deterritorialize these.
Around
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This book addresses the status of the periphery and of the peripheric -the state of being around something- as an antiquated space, a space fallen into disuse or discredit, where all defunct fashions are absorbed, and takes it as a starting point for revising the idea in which a recently acquired historical perspective plays an essential role. That as a common place, the periphery belongs to the past is an advantage which, along with the interventions making up this book, we intend to make good use of. The first part of this book, "Prepositions: A Journey to the Periphery", attempts to juxtapose examples of architectural and photographic interventions that have contributed, and contribute, to turning the periphery into an easily identifiable spatial signifier, and likewise to propose a rereading of these spaces which permits us to decipher their more or less diverse yearnings, utopias and social spaces. In all these interventions the periphery is always comparable to a concrete geographical reality to which one directs oneself, towards which one travels, with the aim of appropriating it, of defining it. This always involves the same preposition: around. The second part, "Propositions: The Journey of the Periphery", will be taken up with the rehabilitation or reutilization of the concept of the periphery. Once the concept of the periphery is considered as being obsolete, it is possible -and this is the chief theoretical contribution of this project- to recycle it, to convert the preposition "around" into a theoretical proposition that gives a number of new twists to the concept and explores its possibilities. The projects and photos included in this second part reflect a fundamental change in the perception of the periphery. The periphery escapes its geographical location and occupies the city's historic center, rural/natural surroundings, technological fantasies, the social utopias of postmodernity, etc. The periphery ceases to mean "around" as a physical location and becomes an invitation to reflection "around" the periphery as both concept and possibility. This doesn't so much mean a colonizing journey to the periphery, as in the first part, as a journey of the periphery to places where it was proscribed until quite recently. The periphery turns out to mean a mobile discourse that uses the common places of the classical periphery in order to dislodge and deterritorialize these.
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April 2003, Barcelona
April 2003, Barcelona
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
