Public space and public visual landscape

PUBLIC SPACEand public visual landscape

A presentation of Lorenza Manfrediwww.lorplay.weebly.com

The space where the collectivity of a city can meet and interact is the public space......from the agorà...to the italian cities...

....up to Potsdamer Platz... ...or up to the public streets of Berlin?

Bernardo Bellotto, Piazza San Marco a Venezia <1780

“... people from different cultural groups can come together in a supportive context of mutual enjoyment. As these experiences are repeated, public

spaces become vessels to carry positive communal meanings.” Carr, St. (et al.), Public Space, 1993 Cambridge

DIFFERENT USES & WAYS OF INTERACTION

HAS EXTERIOR ARCHITECTURE THE ABILITY TO INFLUENCE OUR WAY OF USING THE PUBLIC SPACE?Is a “blind” façade able to communicate something to the citizens passing by it?

WHO OWNS OUR VISUAL LANDSCAPE?The question of property, in particular related to the exterior architecture

WHO DOES USE THE PUBLIC SPACE?The question of property, in particular related to the exterior architecture

DOES STREET ART PRODUCE URBAN QUALITY?Identity, landmark, identification, values transmitter

THE OPEN WALLS organised by the Open Walls Gallery in Wedding, Berlin 2011

JR, la Belle de Mai, Marseille 2013

PLAZA DE LAS LETRAS,Medialab-Prado, Madrid 2010

LEFTOVER AND RESIDUAL SPACESThe possibilities of the spaces that are left out of a urban planning logic

Thank YOU!