The thesis aims at understanding some mechanisms that have determined the success of social networks and then tries to transfer them to public space. Cities, today home to the economy of culture and knowledge, are fragmented and characterized by strong social inequalities. The disintegration of the city took place starting from the Industrial Revolution, both due to the transfer to the city of the rational logic of the factory, and to avoid the formation of a class conscience. The space of circulation has replaced the medieval space of contact, a reflection of a way of corporate production. Zygmunt Bauman’s research shows that later neoliberalism and globalization have created a humanity composed of individuals, who have abandoned the agora overwhelmed by Unsicherheit. Social networks were born as a response to the need for social relations, in an urbanized world that no longer offers places where people can relate. These platforms have proved capable of understanding the dynamics taking place in reality and translating them into their virtual space, renewing themselves continuously. They have succeeded in changing our way of relating to each other even in physical space, by operating a standardization and simplification of languages and emotions. Exploiting the narcissism of individuals to increase the dependence on online identity, they are structured as gated communities. These virtual non-places have therefore also become a risk for democracies and can only constitute a palliative for the absence of physical places in which to relate. I tried to outline a theoretical method of the city that could transfer the dynamics of social networks to reality. The so-called places of proximity, public spaces distributed punctually in the city, can lead to the reconstitution of local communities. They represent the nodes of a network that overlaps those networks which dominate cities. As happens in social networks, the hybridization between a top-down global control and the individual bottom-up requests of citizens is necessary. In such a condition, moreover, it would be up to the architect to conduct a participatory process and to interpret the local realities in order to be able to translate them into a project. The regeneration process outlined for Rome left unrealized could lead to the formation of a reticular city. Barcelona has experimented different urban policies, managing to produce in Eixample a very similar network to the one imagined here.
La tesi si propone di comprendere alcuni meccanismi che hanno determinato il successo dei social network per cercare poi di trasferirli nello spazio pubblico. Le città, oggi sede dell’economia della cultura e della conoscenza, risultano frammentate e caratterizzate da forti disuguaglianze sociali. La disgregazione della città è avvenuta a partire dalla Rivoluzione Industriale, sia per il trasferimento alla città della logica razionale della fabbrica, sia per evitare che si formasse una coscienza di classe. Lo spazio di circolazione ha sostituito lo spazio di contatto medievale, riflesso di un modo di produzione corporativo. Le ricerche di Zygmunt Bauman mostrano come successivamente il neoliberismo e la globalizzazione abbiano creato un’umanità composta da individui, che hanno abbandonato l’agorà sopraffatti dall’Unsicherheit. I social network nascono come risposta al bisogno di socialità, in un mondo urbanizzato che non dispone più di luoghi in cui relazionarsi. Tali piattaforme si sono dimostrate capaci di comprendere le dinamiche in atto nella realtà e di tradurle nel loro spazio virtuale, rinnovandosi continuamente. Operando una standardizzazione e semplificazione di linguaggi ed emozioni sono riuscite a modificare il nostro modo di relazionarci anche nello spazio fisico. Sfruttando il narcisismo degli individui per aumentare la dipendenza dall’identità online, si sono strutturate come gated communities. Questi nonluoghi virtuali sono divenuti quindi anche un rischio per le democrazie e possono costituire solo un palliativo all’assenza di luoghi fisici in cui relazionarsi. Successivamente si è cercato di delineare un metodo teorico di città che potesse trasferire le dinamiche dei social network alla realtà. Quelli che sono stati definiti luoghi di prossimità, spazi pubblici distribuiti puntualmente nella città, possono portare alla ricostituzione di comunità locali. Essi rappresentano i nodi di una rete che si sovrappone alle altre reti che dominano le città. Come avviene nei social network, è necessaria l’ibridazione tra un controllo globale top-down e le singole richieste bottom-up dei cittadini. In una condizione tale spetterebbe all’architetto la conduzione di un processo partecipativo e l’interpretazione delle singole realtà per poterle trasporle in progetto. Il processo di rigenerazione delineato per Roma e non realizzato potrebbe portare alla formazione di una città reticolare. Barcellona ha sperimentato diverse politiche urbane, riuscendo a produrre nell’Eixample una rete molto affine a quella qui immaginata.
Online-on site : per una materializzazione dello spazio virtuale
SPINELLI, VALERIO
2018/2019
Abstract
The thesis aims at understanding some mechanisms that have determined the success of social networks and then tries to transfer them to public space. Cities, today home to the economy of culture and knowledge, are fragmented and characterized by strong social inequalities. The disintegration of the city took place starting from the Industrial Revolution, both due to the transfer to the city of the rational logic of the factory, and to avoid the formation of a class conscience. The space of circulation has replaced the medieval space of contact, a reflection of a way of corporate production. Zygmunt Bauman’s research shows that later neoliberalism and globalization have created a humanity composed of individuals, who have abandoned the agora overwhelmed by Unsicherheit. Social networks were born as a response to the need for social relations, in an urbanized world that no longer offers places where people can relate. These platforms have proved capable of understanding the dynamics taking place in reality and translating them into their virtual space, renewing themselves continuously. They have succeeded in changing our way of relating to each other even in physical space, by operating a standardization and simplification of languages and emotions. Exploiting the narcissism of individuals to increase the dependence on online identity, they are structured as gated communities. These virtual non-places have therefore also become a risk for democracies and can only constitute a palliative for the absence of physical places in which to relate. I tried to outline a theoretical method of the city that could transfer the dynamics of social networks to reality. The so-called places of proximity, public spaces distributed punctually in the city, can lead to the reconstitution of local communities. They represent the nodes of a network that overlaps those networks which dominate cities. As happens in social networks, the hybridization between a top-down global control and the individual bottom-up requests of citizens is necessary. In such a condition, moreover, it would be up to the architect to conduct a participatory process and to interpret the local realities in order to be able to translate them into a project. The regeneration process outlined for Rome left unrealized could lead to the formation of a reticular city. Barcelona has experimented different urban policies, managing to produce in Eixample a very similar network to the one imagined here.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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