Cities like Shanghai, characterized by impactful building contrasts and strong immigration flows, have been facing a wide transformation process, enzymatic territories with a thousand faces can hardly satisfy the sudden changes in the “utility logics” of the post-industrial era. History and current events, that have long represented the protagonist roles on the urban stage, are slowly taking opposite paths, moving further and further away. The “market civilization” of Andrea Branzi empties the contemporary city of its physical identity and its memory content to fill it with intangible realities: movements, flows, processes, information. In the resilient city the territorial boundaries become fleeting and indeterminable, the world becomes “the same everywhere” making the distinction of “here” from “elsewhere” unclear. The identity impoverishment caused by the standardizing force of the globalization process is responsible for the formation of new urban geographies: they are defined as voids, leftovers, interstitial tissues, borderlands, or spaces in a waiting state characterized by a condition of temporary abandonment dispossessed of their “sense of place”. In a city that shows new needs for new ways of living it is necessary “to experiment with temporary interventions able to assign new possibilities of use to leftovers spaces, making use of provisional and reversible devices, [...] to favor their reintegration into the social life and the encouragement of their symbolic content”. In this context fits this thesis, with the desire to preserve the memory content of the place by enhancing resources that the contemporary city is already able to offer without the need for new land consumption. The observation of the urban context and the consequent experiential mapping process of temporarily disused places is the fundamental method on which the whole research is based on. The development of a psycho-geographical map, guided by Situationist theories, will represent most of the abandoned spots in the city, analyzed and cataloged according to established criteria in a sort of serial accumulation of places that have temporarily lost their urban utility. The tool of photography becomes an indispensable element during the identification phase “through which to fix feelings, intuitions that, otherwise, risk being lost in time”. Moreover the literature review becomes a way of communication between past, present and future, favoring the historical analysis of the Shanghainese urban development process and its main causes. Furthermore, a careful selection of case studies makes it possible to understand the global panorama of what is happening in other parts of the world by increasing the level of project awareness. Temporary urban solutions adapt to the logic of the contemporary city to have fluid and hybrid spaces that depend on “a functionalization of the places of life that no longer follows a temporal long term logic, but have moved towards the here and now”. These last considerations prepare the basis on which this thesis stands: a network of punctual re-functionalization interventions of abandoned spaces scattered over the entire urban territory, organized on the basis of a spatial classification related to the use that people will make of them. Shanghai will be plagued by a multi-identity outbreak called Re-making Shanghai capable of confer new temporary utilities to forgotten places and new cultural and artistic possibilities to people. Quarterly calendars indicating the initiatives present in the territory in that specific period of time will be available to the public at the places mapped and marked with the Shanghai Re-making logo. To better understand the operation of the entire design machine, the thesis continues its course by presenting in detail one of the interventions designed for those disused spaces. Through the collaboration with a professional local photographer, Xuanmin JIN, a temporary art exhibition will be designed in the Baoshan Lu lilong, an urban village abandoned for months, according to a low environmental impact policy. The purpose of the exhibition is to trigger a mechanism of awareness on the part of the public and offer an alternative point of view from which to observe the city that sensitizes people to urban weaknesses. The final hope foresees the replicability on a worldwide scale of a contagious tendency capable of highlighting the most vulnerable urban spaces under new guises, extending the legacies that separate them from their death.
Città come Shanghai, caratterizzate da forti contrasti edilizi e inarrestabili flussi migratori, si trovano oggi a dover affrontare un processo di grande trasformazione, territori enzimatici dai mille volti che difficilmente riescono ad assecondare i repentini cambiamenti delle "logiche di utilità" dell'epoca post-industriale. Storia e attualità che da tempo rappresentano gli attori protagonisti sul palcoscenico urbano stanno pian piano intraprendendo due percorsi diametralmente opposti allontanandosi sempre più. Così la civiltà merceologica di Andrea Branzi svuota la città contemporanea della propria fisicità portando con sè il proprio contenuto di memoria per riempirla di realtà intangibili: movimenti, flussi, processi, informazioni. Nella città resiliente i confini territoriali si fanno labili e indeterminati, il mondo diventa "uguale dappertutto" rendendo difficile la distinzione "del qui dall'altrove". L'impoverimento identitario causato dalla forza omologante del processo di globalizzazione è responsabile della formazione di nuove geografie urbane fino ad ora per lo più sconosciute: vengono definiti vuoti, avanzi, tessuti interstiziali, borderlands, ovvero spazi in stato d'attesa caratterizzati da una condizione di temporaneo abbandono espropriati del proprio "senso di luogo". In una città che manifesta nuove esigenze per nuovi modi di abitare è necessario "sperimentare interventi in grado di assegnare agli avanzi nuove possibilità d'uso, facendo ricorso a dispositivi allestitivi, provvisori e reversibili, [...] per favorirne il reinserimento nel tessuto vivo sociale e la valorizzazione del loro contenuto simbolico". In questo contesto si inserisce la tesi, con la volontà di preservare il contenuto di memoria del luogo valorizzando risorse che la città contemporanea è già in grado di offrire senza la necessità di nuovo consumo di suolo. L'osservazione del tessuto urbano e il conseguente processo di mappatura esperienziale di luoghi temporaneamente in disuso è il metodo fondamentale su cui si basa l'intera ricerca. Lo sviluppo di una mappa psico-geografica, guidata da teorie situazioniste, rappresenterà gran parte dei luoghi abbandonati nella città, analizzati e catalogati, secondo criteri prestabiliti, in una sorta di accumulazione seriale di luoghi che hanno temporaneamente perso la loro utilità. Lo strumento della fotografia, infatti, diventa elemento indispensabile durante questa fase di riconoscimento del luogo "attraverso il quale fissare sensazioni, intuizioni che, altrimenti, rischiano di perdersi nel tempo". La literature review diventa una modalità di comunicazione tra passato, presente e futuro, favorendo l'analisi storica del processo di sviluppo urbano di Shanghai e delle sue principali cause. Un'attenta selezione di casi studio, inoltre, permette di comprendere il panorama globale su ciò che sta accadendo in altre parti del mondo accrescendo il livello di consapevolezza progettuale. Le soluzioni urbane temporanee si adeguano alla logica della città contemporanea ad avere spazi fluidi e ibridi che dipendono da "una funzionalizzazione dei luoghi del vivere che non segue più una logica temporale del lungo termine, ma si sono ormai spostati verso il qui e ora". Queste ultime considerazioni preparano le basi su cui si erge la proposta progettuale di questa tesi: una rete di interventi puntuali di ri-funzionalizzazione di spazi abbandonati sparsi sull'intero territorio urbano, organizzati sulla base di una classificazione spaziale rispetto all'uso che l'utente ne farà. Shanghai sarà contagiata da un'epidemia multi-identitaria di nome Re-making Shanghai in grado di riconferire nuove utilità temporanee a luoghi dimenticati e nuove possibilità culturali e artistiche alle persone. Calendari trimestrali indicanti le iniziative presenti sul territorio in quel determinato periodo di tempo saranno disponibili al pubblico in corrispondenza dei luoghi mappati e marchiati con il logo di Re-making Shanghai. Per comprendere meglio il funzionamento dell'intera macchina progettuale la tesi prosegue il suo corso presentando in dettaglio uno degli interventi progettati per gli spazi dismessi. Attraverso la collaborazione con un fotografo professionista locale, Xuanmin JIN, una mostra temporanea d'arte sarà progettata nel Baoshan Lu lilong, un'area abbandonata ormai da mesi, secondo una politica a basso impatto ambientale. Lo scopo della mostra è di innescare un meccanismo di consapevolezza da parte del pubblico e offrirgli un punto di vista alternativo da cui osservare la città che lo sensibilizzi nei confronti delle debolezze urbane. La speranza finale prevede la replicabilità su scala mondiale di una tendenza contagiosa in grado di mettere in luce sotto nuove vesti quegli spazi urbani più bisognosi allungando le legacy che li separano dalla loro morte.
Re-making Shanghai. Project for the re-functionalization of urban voids in the contemporary city through a change of perspective. Progetto di ri-funzionalizzazione di vuoti urbani nella città contemporanea attraverso un cambio di prospettiva
FORNACIARI, OFELIA
2017/2018
Abstract
Cities like Shanghai, characterized by impactful building contrasts and strong immigration flows, have been facing a wide transformation process, enzymatic territories with a thousand faces can hardly satisfy the sudden changes in the “utility logics” of the post-industrial era. History and current events, that have long represented the protagonist roles on the urban stage, are slowly taking opposite paths, moving further and further away. The “market civilization” of Andrea Branzi empties the contemporary city of its physical identity and its memory content to fill it with intangible realities: movements, flows, processes, information. In the resilient city the territorial boundaries become fleeting and indeterminable, the world becomes “the same everywhere” making the distinction of “here” from “elsewhere” unclear. The identity impoverishment caused by the standardizing force of the globalization process is responsible for the formation of new urban geographies: they are defined as voids, leftovers, interstitial tissues, borderlands, or spaces in a waiting state characterized by a condition of temporary abandonment dispossessed of their “sense of place”. In a city that shows new needs for new ways of living it is necessary “to experiment with temporary interventions able to assign new possibilities of use to leftovers spaces, making use of provisional and reversible devices, [...] to favor their reintegration into the social life and the encouragement of their symbolic content”. In this context fits this thesis, with the desire to preserve the memory content of the place by enhancing resources that the contemporary city is already able to offer without the need for new land consumption. The observation of the urban context and the consequent experiential mapping process of temporarily disused places is the fundamental method on which the whole research is based on. The development of a psycho-geographical map, guided by Situationist theories, will represent most of the abandoned spots in the city, analyzed and cataloged according to established criteria in a sort of serial accumulation of places that have temporarily lost their urban utility. The tool of photography becomes an indispensable element during the identification phase “through which to fix feelings, intuitions that, otherwise, risk being lost in time”. Moreover the literature review becomes a way of communication between past, present and future, favoring the historical analysis of the Shanghainese urban development process and its main causes. Furthermore, a careful selection of case studies makes it possible to understand the global panorama of what is happening in other parts of the world by increasing the level of project awareness. Temporary urban solutions adapt to the logic of the contemporary city to have fluid and hybrid spaces that depend on “a functionalization of the places of life that no longer follows a temporal long term logic, but have moved towards the here and now”. These last considerations prepare the basis on which this thesis stands: a network of punctual re-functionalization interventions of abandoned spaces scattered over the entire urban territory, organized on the basis of a spatial classification related to the use that people will make of them. Shanghai will be plagued by a multi-identity outbreak called Re-making Shanghai capable of confer new temporary utilities to forgotten places and new cultural and artistic possibilities to people. Quarterly calendars indicating the initiatives present in the territory in that specific period of time will be available to the public at the places mapped and marked with the Shanghai Re-making logo. To better understand the operation of the entire design machine, the thesis continues its course by presenting in detail one of the interventions designed for those disused spaces. Through the collaboration with a professional local photographer, Xuanmin JIN, a temporary art exhibition will be designed in the Baoshan Lu lilong, an urban village abandoned for months, according to a low environmental impact policy. The purpose of the exhibition is to trigger a mechanism of awareness on the part of the public and offer an alternative point of view from which to observe the city that sensitizes people to urban weaknesses. The final hope foresees the replicability on a worldwide scale of a contagious tendency capable of highlighting the most vulnerable urban spaces under new guises, extending the legacies that separate them from their death.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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