In July of 2018, in the height of phobic climate between landings, shipwrecks and newly overt racism, a post is instantly shared on Facebook over 9,000 times. The image portrays an oceanic mass of humans in a landscape with water, boats, a large structure in the middle. The text speaks of a Libyan port and overloaded ships with people ready to sail to Italy. As someone hastens to warn, rather it is the photo of a famous Pink Floyd concert held in Venice in 1989. Yet, the profile of the city is unmistakable, as are the unmistakable vaporetto stop and the usual hypertrophic paraphernalia deployed by Gilmour and company for their performances. All in all it was a minor summer episode, attributable both to the tensions of the moment as to the usual carelessness induced by social networks; but the misunderstanding could also be an indication of a phenomenon with uncertain contours. The doubt remains, that is, that the large gatherings actually have their own autonomous particularity, which sums up what is inebriating, animal and monstrous contained in human swarms, where the differences between desperate migrants, rockers, demonstrators, tourists, faithful or fans will blur. «To each individual, his place; and in each site, an individual. Avoid group distributions; break down collective structures; analyze confusing, massive or elusive pluralities», wrote Michel Foucault (Surveiller et punir, 1975) on how modernity has sought to regulate the masses, describing architecture almost as a zoning of bodies. But the masses, in fact, escape. They tend to resist forms of discipline and determine their own disposition of occupying space. The relationship between masses and space is the subject of this monograph, which wishes to investigate both the multiform spatial configurations that give rise to the projects for regulating the masses (architecture for the masses), and the paradoxical effects - oppressing or liberating depending on the case - of the appearance of the swarm onto the urban scene and a massive use of space.
Nel luglio 2018, in piena temperie fobica tra sbarchi, naufragi e razzismi non più striscianti, un post viene istantaneamente condiviso più di 9.000 volte su Facebook. L’immagine ritrae una massa oceanica di umani in un paesaggio d’acqua, imbarcazioni, un grande volume al centro. Il testo parla di un porto libico e di navi stracolme di persone pronte a salpare per l’Italia. Come qualcuno si affretterà ad avvertire, si tratta invece della foto di un famoso concerto dei Pink Floyd tenutosi a Venezia nel 1989. Eppure, il profilo della città è inconfondibile, come sono altrettanto inconfondibili la fermata del vaporetto e il consueto armamentario ipertrofico dispiegato da Gilmour e compagni per le loro esibizioni. Sarà un episodio estivo tutto sommato minore, ascrivibile tanto alle tensioni del momento quanto alla consueta sciatteria indotta dai social network; ma l’equivoco potrebbe essere anche indizio di un fenomeno dai contorni incerti. Resta il dubbio, cioè, che i grandi assembramenti abbiano effettivamente una loro fattispecie autonoma, che riassume quel che di inebriante, animale e mostruoso c’è negli sciami umani, dove le differenze fra migranti disperati, rockettari, dimostranti, turisti, fedeli o tifosi possono sfumarsi. «Ad ogni individuo il suo posto; ed in ogni posto il suo individuo. Evitare le distribuzioni a gruppi; scomporre le strutture collettive; analizzare le pluralità confuse, massive o sfuggenti», scriveva Michel Foucault (Surveiller et punir, 1975) del modo in cui la modernità ha cercato di disciplinare la massa, descrivendo l’architettura quasi come uno zoning dei corpi. Ma la massa, appunto, sfugge. Tende a resistere alle forme di disciplina e a determinare suoi propri dispositivi di occupazione dello spazio. Il rapporto tra masse e spazio è il soggetto di questo numero di Rassegna, che indaga sia le multiformi configurazioni spaziali a cui danno vita i progetti di regolamentazione delle masse (architettura per le masse), sia gli effetti paradossali – opprimenti o liberatori a seconda dei casi – della comparsa dello sciame sulla scena urbana e di un uso massivo dello spazio.
Longobardi, G. (a cura di). (2020). Architettura, folle e città. Macerata : Quodlibet.
Architettura, folle e città
giovanni longobardi
2020-01-01
Abstract
In July of 2018, in the height of phobic climate between landings, shipwrecks and newly overt racism, a post is instantly shared on Facebook over 9,000 times. The image portrays an oceanic mass of humans in a landscape with water, boats, a large structure in the middle. The text speaks of a Libyan port and overloaded ships with people ready to sail to Italy. As someone hastens to warn, rather it is the photo of a famous Pink Floyd concert held in Venice in 1989. Yet, the profile of the city is unmistakable, as are the unmistakable vaporetto stop and the usual hypertrophic paraphernalia deployed by Gilmour and company for their performances. All in all it was a minor summer episode, attributable both to the tensions of the moment as to the usual carelessness induced by social networks; but the misunderstanding could also be an indication of a phenomenon with uncertain contours. The doubt remains, that is, that the large gatherings actually have their own autonomous particularity, which sums up what is inebriating, animal and monstrous contained in human swarms, where the differences between desperate migrants, rockers, demonstrators, tourists, faithful or fans will blur. «To each individual, his place; and in each site, an individual. Avoid group distributions; break down collective structures; analyze confusing, massive or elusive pluralities», wrote Michel Foucault (Surveiller et punir, 1975) on how modernity has sought to regulate the masses, describing architecture almost as a zoning of bodies. But the masses, in fact, escape. They tend to resist forms of discipline and determine their own disposition of occupying space. The relationship between masses and space is the subject of this monograph, which wishes to investigate both the multiform spatial configurations that give rise to the projects for regulating the masses (architecture for the masses), and the paradoxical effects - oppressing or liberating depending on the case - of the appearance of the swarm onto the urban scene and a massive use of space.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.