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M10: Friction Atlas: A Choreographed Debate About Public Space, Law and Legibility
Paolo Patelli
Giuditta Vendrame
Sažetak
The modern project aims at making the world – and ultimately its population – “legible”. According to James C. Scott, institutions and organisations filter the type of data they need to know, in order to abstract, flatten and spread it out in a way that makes it readable; then, it is the world that is reformed in the image of that abstraction.1 We are getting accustomed to seeing the behaviour of citizens – users, customers, consumers – represented through real-time maps and data visualisations, which in turn increasingly inform what people see and can do. On the other hand, the term “legibility” is used by Kevin Lynch to signify the perceptual clarity of an urban environment, or “the ease with which its parts can be recognised by its inhabitants”.2 The experience of the urban environment, and the resulting mental map, make systems more legible, by exposing their structure and activity. Mental maps grant citizens a degree of agency, affecting the range of possible interactions: when operationalised they enable reprogramming, hacking, and deconstructing. In our urban experience, law is invisible, but always implicitly present. Regulations on the use of public space – symbols, conventions – have the power of persuading human beings to act. They are sets of instructions that incorporate power, an invisible structural force that plays through into everyday life, in a synchronised routine of elaborate moves on public surfaces, a choreography. In this context, Friction Atlas is a critical intervention that through graphical devices and performative practices reshape local laws into fully visible agents, providing possible models for opening up to new forms of civic and aesthetic engagement with hidden or abstract layers of the city.
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Hrčak ID:
185566
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Datum izdavanja:
1.7.2015.
Posjeta: 566 *