Que cultura para o novo espaço público?

Abstract

ABSTRACT 11 "What culture for the new public space?" is the starting point for this Master thesis, which aim is to problematize about the creation of new spaces of comfort, sharing, exchange and participation in the contemporary context. Aware that the urbanization of societies and territories of today has lost some of its traditional features, the fundamental hypothesis is developed from the idea that public space is not a given reality, but a complex, fragile and variable construction which requires a continuous work of representation and reasoning. Now the problem consist in make sense to the new paradigms that characterize today's society, seeking a common culture, urban, integrator (landscape and functionalist approach) that through the formal configuration of the urban space, uses and social appropriation models and from the exploration of contemporary meanings of monumentality, develop a urbanism approach that promotes civic relations - spaces that potentiate living in diversity. The methodology strategy of the research does by the development of a conceptual framework about contemporary public space, based on the idea of public space and its transformations in contemporary society explored by the philosopher Daniel Innerarity, which is tested in several contexts (real and local) and stimulates by an independent set of images. The thesis is organized into five chapters. The Preamble sets out the reasons for the research and explores the concept of public space. The Conceptual Context develops the conceptual framework, reflecting on the nature and conditions and on the meaning of new urban territories and its new contemporary trends. The Real Context, explores diversity of issues (from city to urban sprawl) and design responses (from municipal policy to spaces of uncertainty) launching hypotheses of research. The Local Context apply this hypotheses of research to the "Barcelona's urban model", developed in last decades, in order to extract already made experiences (in the context of traditional city) a critical key to the achievements of urban knowledge for future interventions on contemporary public spaces (urban artifacts, Infrastructure or metropolitan open spaces). Finally, the Epilogue materializes the final conclusions on the set of ideas presented. Sum up, this research aims to consolidate a shared culture of civic public spaces through principles and urban logics - Barcelona example - that over others forms but with the same principles could allow the new spaces to keep being the vehicles of the perception and comprehension of the urban territory character. The important is to give voice to citizens so they can opt for life in public space.