City as a
metaphor of history;
History as
superposition of paradigms;
City as a system
of time-space interceptions.
We intend contemporary city as structured on
different layers with own time-space coherence
We want to escape the conventional, linear
conception and intend history as a landscape, in which events are distributed
in a non-chronological order
A three-dimensional conception of the distribution
of events in the time-space can offer "vistas" that allow a
contemporaneity of events belonging to layers with different coherence.
TWO NARRATIVE LAYERS
How can we intend the boundary between a subject and his environment? Which
is the nature of the discontinuity of the passage from living organisms (human
being) to their organisational system (the city)?
we choose to represent the contemporary 21° sec.
city trough the intersection of two different narration, at the inner scale of
the subject and at the outer scale of the urban system. These stories, as a
very simple model of comprehension, refer to the superimposition of two
narrative dimensions articulated on different, own time.
URBAN NARRATION - THE LINKS
The upper layer, the city of events, everyday life,
common living and urban activities can be seen as a complex, hybrid
diagrammatic landscape based on a collection of linear, continuous different
stories. THE LINKS
INFRASTRUCTURAL NARRATION - THE NOTS
The second layer, the city of communication,
internet diffusion or infra-structural transit network is made by discontinuous
spread of single stations’ tales. THE NOTS