Remember - 13.03.2013
Lecture Seven - Remember
What is public life, i.e. our lives as we understand them beyond the private, domestic domain?
What is the nature of the SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Dynamic of things – things change, meanings of things change, physical appearance change etc
Is there such thing as collective memory?
If so, what part does the city and the various scales (e.g. parks, squares etc) & levels (public and private) of space within it play in its production and reproduction?
How do the PAST,PRESENT AND FUTURE exist in the built form and space
The City as Representation
Architectural, urban and interior design is a form of history writing
All history writing is a triumph of oneself values over others, and construct a series of fragments according to an invented architecture
The City as Spectacle
City not just being a container but a spectacle which tells us things about space
Baroque space
City as Museum – form of public theatre
MATRICES vs TOTALITIES
Matrices
Totalities
Open – ended aggregate of details and difference
Coherent and integrates experience of space/time
Disparate, partial, local attachments collage city
Collective/shared project (social, political, historical)
Our readings of the city/space can be partial
Common, global attachments
Ventun Scott Brown Yale Study: American Suburb
“PRIVATE ARCHIVE”
Edwardian Club
English Park
Regency Style
The City as Rescued Memory
Participation in a coherent Whole
Franco’s tomb – Madrid
Dark space
Spacially interesting
The City as Spectacle
Idea of city matrix
Jumble of different arts – writers, artists, doctors etc