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Utopia and/or Spectacle? Rethinking Urban Interventions Through the Legacy of Modernism and the Situationist City
The Situationist International introduced the creative, psychological, desiring individual as a counterweight to the utopian schemes of the modernist city. The resistance formulated throughout situationist principles underlies many contemporary activist urban practices. Nevertheless, the situationist approach to the city incorporated an affirmation of utopian thought. This totalizing aspect of modernist thought, still present in contemporary discourse, constrains our understanding of the potential of micro-interventions in the city. Although the “right to the city” may be crucial to reclaiming an active engagement with our urban environment, this paper discusses some limitations of situationist ideas, arguing that current urban practice requires a new discourse beyond the by now well-known frame of resistance and negation.
Utopia and/or Spectacle? Rethinking Urban Interventions Through the Legacy of Modernism and the Situationist City
The Situationist International introduced the creative, psychological, desiring individual as a counterweight to the utopian schemes of the modernist city. The resistance formulated throughout situationist principles underlies many contemporary activist urban practices. Nevertheless, the situationist approach to the city incorporated an affirmation of utopian thought. This totalizing aspect of modernist thought, still present in contemporary discourse, constrains our understanding of the potential of micro-interventions in the city. Although the “right to the city” may be crucial to reclaiming an active engagement with our urban environment, this paper discusses some limitations of situationist ideas, arguing that current urban practice requires a new discourse beyond the by now well-known frame of resistance and negation.
Utopia and/or Spectacle? Rethinking Urban Interventions Through the Legacy of Modernism and the Situationist City
Schrijver, Lara (Autor:in)
Architectural Theory Review ; 16 ; 245-258
01.12.2011
14 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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