Loading Utopia...InsArte? [dis]positivos [re]activos do espaço urbano

Abstract

It is intended with this dissertation thesis to study the current action phenomenon in the European contemporary public urban spaces, through architectural micro-interventions provided of great creativity and urban hacktivism, with a strong connection to the current socio-political realities(realms?). Although germinated in the movements of the 60's and 70's, the emergence of these embodiments - which will be referred to as devices - announces itself as emergent, including as a result of the current economic crisis. They are reactive architectures for their alternative practices. They act as political and social impact (intervention) devices, disciplinary variants catalysts and change producers (inducers?) in the collective, communitarian and civic dynamics. The (proposed) objective (goal?) is to think the process that precede them and what comes from them, regarding to the practice of architecture, to the urban management policies and to the city daily dynamics and public space, in direct correlation with those who think them and those who uses, create and live them. A careful analysis of four specific devices is taken into consideration. These interventions through their devices are placed almost in the limits of architecture frameworks, contacting directly with other disciplines, and in its various overlapping, contamination and dimensions, they contain elements of significant interest to the management of the intended the debate. Which space, legal, common and disciplinary opportunities derived from these methodologies / manifestos of action? What do they want to bring, and how do they want to contribute to the physical appropriation, public and sociopolitical urban territory? The relevance of these realities justifies the dedication to the study and production of thought.