Concinnity. The contemporary project of the city We cannot linger any longer, the contemporaneity is looming. The contemporary is the other way of announcing the future in the pre- sent. As Gabriele Pasqui (Pasqui, 2008) states, the time of urbanism is the future perfect. What do urban planners do today? They work to re-in- habit the world, this could be the answer. Howe- ver, what does this mean? In Espèces d’espaces Georges Perec (1989) introduces a method of approaching things, considering the gaze, the ability to look and classify them. If you look at a place and get nothing, you do not know how to look. Perec’s statement thus reveals how diffi- cult it is to know and look deeply into the world around us. Classifying, listing and naming things is a good way to understand the world. To this end, the method to adopt is excavation, obser- vation and classification. The excavation disclo- ses, removes the veil that conceals an ideal city in the existing one. A discovery that depends on planners (Ferraro, 1998): this is the assumption proposed by Patrick Geddes, and it should be solely interpreted as a stimulus to bring into play the imagination when looking at the extant, aiming for new, unexpected things to happen. How can we be amazed by the existent? The place is a common word.

Caudo, G. (2021). Concinnita. Il progetto di città contemporaneo. AND, 40.

Concinnita. Il progetto di città contemporaneo

Giovanni Caudo
2021-01-01

Abstract

Concinnity. The contemporary project of the city We cannot linger any longer, the contemporaneity is looming. The contemporary is the other way of announcing the future in the pre- sent. As Gabriele Pasqui (Pasqui, 2008) states, the time of urbanism is the future perfect. What do urban planners do today? They work to re-in- habit the world, this could be the answer. Howe- ver, what does this mean? In Espèces d’espaces Georges Perec (1989) introduces a method of approaching things, considering the gaze, the ability to look and classify them. If you look at a place and get nothing, you do not know how to look. Perec’s statement thus reveals how diffi- cult it is to know and look deeply into the world around us. Classifying, listing and naming things is a good way to understand the world. To this end, the method to adopt is excavation, obser- vation and classification. The excavation disclo- ses, removes the veil that conceals an ideal city in the existing one. A discovery that depends on planners (Ferraro, 1998): this is the assumption proposed by Patrick Geddes, and it should be solely interpreted as a stimulus to bring into play the imagination when looking at the extant, aiming for new, unexpected things to happen. How can we be amazed by the existent? The place is a common word.
2021
Caudo, G. (2021). Concinnita. Il progetto di città contemporaneo. AND, 40.
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