the street is our gallery

Several contemporary studies on public space focus on its loss, in relation to an increase in people’s disengagement from these types of spaces. Since the 1960s, a considerable part of urban culture has attempted to develop strategies for people to re-appropriate public space and to ‘inhabit the city again’.

This has defined a line of research that, although now consolidated, is still little known in its complexity. In the effort to create a unified framework for the different attempts through which architecture has historically responded to the rise of spontaneous forms of urban creativity, this paper outlines a short history of design strategies aimed at enabling and encouraging different forms of spatial appropriation. It also highlights a gradual shift from perspective and repeatable rules to site-specific approaches, prompting a new disciplinary convergence between urban planning and design, interior architecture, industrial design and public art.

Volume 1 / Num 1 : “Methodologies for Research”

Format: PDF | 102 color pages | in English
ISSN: 2183-3869| €-

Volume 1 / Num 2 : “Places and non Places”

Format: PDF | 104 color pages | in English
ISSN: 2183-3869| €-