miércoles, 16 de noviembre de 2011

LATITUDES IV. Granada . TOWARDS A NEW TERRITORIAL CULTURE


                      

Granada
(Spain)
26 november/ 3 december
2011
TOWARDS A NEW TERRITORIAL CULTURE flooded land of the Genil River in Palma del Río. Córdoba.
Understanding the territory as a limited resource. Emphasizing the different scales, connections, mobility and speed, looks, layering, social realities, cultures, green factor, etc. working with a specific topic on the Genil River flooded and his impact on the population.


The workshop will take part in Casa Zayas, site at Albaicín, Cuesta de San Gregorio nº 13
Enrollment to fit seat:
Name,surname and studies at: latitudescuatro@hotmail.com
Prices: 30 euros (in respect of transpor, materials and closing event).
Places order is granted for registration.


The deadline for submitting applications for registration will close on Thursday 24 at 14:00 and the entrance of the amount required will be made before Friday 25 at 14:00.  It will provide the account number via e-mail.

Professors
Marisol García Torrente. Granada. España.
Ubaldo García Torrente. Granada. España.
María Gómez-Guillamón. Copenhague. Dinamarca.
Reiner Zettl. Viena, Austria.
José Carlos López Cervantes. Viena, Austria.


SCHEDULE

Fr25no 17:00 Welcome visitors
Sa26no 06:30 Bus to Palma del Río

09:30 Welcome Session. Palma del Rio City Council

10:00 Course work exposure

12:00

Conference Tomás Rodríguez Ruiz / work presentation

13:00 Visit the intervetion area

14:30 Lunch

18:00 Bus to Granada
Su27no 09:30 Formation of groups
10:00 Workshop

14:30 Lunch

16:00 Workshop

20:00 Lecture: Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas
Mo28no
Visit city / buildings
Tu29no
Visit city / buildings
We30no 09:00 Welcome authorities

10:00 Lecture: Rehabilitation and restoration Casa Zayas
         Ubaldo García Torrente
         Carlos Núñez Guerrero,
         Susana Rodríguez.

11:00 Workshop

14:30 Lunch

16:00 Workshop

20:30 Lecture : <<Young architecture>>
          Carlos Gor.
          José Carlos López Cervantes. 
          José Luis Muñoz.

21:30 Dinner

22:30 Workshop
Th01di 08:30 Workshop

14:30 Lunch

16:00 Workshop

20:00 Lecture: Reiner Zettl

21:30 Dinner

22:30 Workshop
Fr02di 08:30 Workshop

14:30 Lunch

16:00 Workshop

21:30 Dinner

22:30 Workshop
Sa03di 10:30 Presentation and Jury
14:30 Lunch
CONCEPTUAL BASE

TERRITORY. From this premise, it is important to understand that our territories are a complex palimpsest where the accumulation over time of successive processes have led to the deposition of an area of ​​great social and historical complexity than any territory, each of those societies that have inhabited and built over time have left their cultural mark, whose trace can perceive and understand: their implementation criterias, the form of social and territorial organization, mechanisms of adaptation to the environment, the technical process to overcome adversity ... a compendium of strategies that define the basic structure of the current territorial system.

In this regional context,
culture plays a key role. Culture as a product of human labor and the environment in which it operates. The various manifestations expressed in facts, concepts, works, products, results and relationships that men develop a dynamic process of production and dialogue. The set of expressions and distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional, that characterize a society or social group in a determinate period, encompassing way of life, ceremonies, art, inventions, technology, values, fundamental rights, traditions, rites, practices and beliefs. In short, the basis for the survival of a society, all that constitutes the regulations in which are based the actions of that group of people to adapt themselves to the environment and meet their needs.

Assuming Territory is both, support and inspiration of these cultural expressions, the great memory of the culture of the peoples and societies that occupied, controlled, adapted and lived throughout history. We can define the territory as a physical and symbolic structure, which refers to the particular way it divides the space, which determine physical locations and networks that exist for communication, together with the knowledge and wisdom of a society that mark behaviors, forms of social relations, ideas and future projects.


THE FUTURE. At the moment in which we witness an accelerated destruction of the territory that is fueling much of irreparable loss of cultural heritage, natural and material culture of the territory that made it possible, this workshop will aim to propose new ideas on of these budgets, trying to define the current situation, the methodological approach to the knowledge of these cultural spaces in all its dimensions and all that, as architects, we can give answers to the conflict we attend with the goal of preservation for future generations and its value.

The future of the planet is in the preservation of territories with culture, speech and collective purpose and have this way of looking to take hold as a new culture of the territory, is aware that, from these expressions, where they can speeches built consistent, positive, purposeful and cyclists take part in a citizenship that has to be involved and understand that when a territory or a unique landscape is lost, gone an important part of their culture and history.
THE PROJECT. This is evident in the study area proposed for the workshop. Areas that were designed with a smart and territorial ideas and that in a moment of uncontrolled development, break the rules that were agreed and accepted, between man and nature and cause imbalances difficult to stabilize. The future will see the light when the territory will be consider as interaction in the space of social conditions as a pre-existing created by natural and historical memory. As a fusion of nature, culture and technology, leading to enrichment of the space each time. In this sense, the approach is made from the project must be understood not from a conservative approach that involves carrying the burden of preventing new language tradition, on the contrary, based on the consideration that although the historical memory of the passage, incorporated in the construction of the territory, is the personality of a community and makes it that and not another, just as the biography of an individual shapes his personality that makes it distinguished from the others, this personality should contribute to the enrichment of future options and not its impoverishment.

The necessary accommodation between the needs of the future and the preservation of acquired culture, means that the interpretation of the construction of the territory should be in every generation, from the perspective of the culture of their own temporal context and according to their ideals of f
uture. This arrangement of what is transmitted to the goals and needs of the moment, characteristic of all languages, is even more evident in the case of the territory because its peculiarity of being capable of habitability, whose needs must necessarily be accommodated in each space-time. Hence the invigorating interpretation of construction on something inherited exceed the pure analytical description from the point of geographical, historical or cultural background and possible reflection purely defensive about protection in catalogs, to find innovative solutions able to insert the wealth of local knowledge on the future plans.

That is why at this point, conservation and development can no longer be understood as opposing terms and circumstances. They are realities that must necessarily reconciled to apply new forms of assessment, placement, operation and management. Cultural heritage should therefore join and be part of economic activity and characterize a form of endogenous development. Perched on the basis of sustainability is its own territory, in heritage, which acquires the status of resource and where materialize ecological systems, where it takes the whole consistency and diversity, and therefore, where the heritage acquires all its meaning.

As
Amin Maalouf said in his speech as the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2010:

"Culture is not a luxury we can afford only in this Faust's times. Its mission is to formulate key questions. About us Where are we going? What do we build? What society? What civilization? And based on what values? How to use the huge resources provided to us by science? How to become tools of freedom and not slavery?
The role of culture is even more crucial in times misguided. And ours is an era misguided. If we neglect this century just started will reverse a century of ethical, I say with sorrow, but not lightly. It will be a century of scientific and technological progress, no doubt. But it will also reverse a century of ethics. Identity claims will worsen, violent on many occasions and in many cases, retrograde, weakens the solidarity between nations and within nations, the European dream losing bellows; erode democratic values, is used too often to the operations military and the state of emergency ... symptoms abound.
Faced with this setback in its infancy, we have no right to resign and give way to despair. Today it honors literature and it honors us all is the attempt to understand the complexities of our time and to imagine possible solutions to continue living in our world. We have no spare planet, we only have this old Earth, and it is our duty to protect it and make it harmonious and humane"

Aminn Maalouf. October 22, 2010.

martes, 15 de noviembre de 2011

Talking about Latitudes IV




Latitudes IV will be held different approaches to different realities, but with a common goal: a reflection about the findings. After a anarchic development of our cities, produced from over-exploitation of resources and territories, it seems to be the time to stop, think and take our heritage -understanding that in a broad sense and unbiased-, to make that get new meanings and asume new applications


Different cities in different continents, with apparently conflicting points of departure, but all with hardly bearable imbalances. The investigation pursuant the specific input of ideas, which can be easily accepted by the public authorities.

LATITUDES IV. TOWARDS A NEW VISION OF THE PATRIMONIAL. In recent years, deep changes are occurring in relation to the idea of ​​heritage and patrimonial, involving new approaches, not only in expanding the concept and scope of the term, but new forms of action in relation to it.
Clearly, concern has shifted from a partial and specific heritage protection, being almost exclusively known as "historical and architectural heritage", to a global vision and general construction of the territory recognized as having intrinsic component of being patrimonial. The inclusion within the concept of heritage of more extensive and broader ideas, which move from the concrete assessment of the architectural and urban to a new land valuation, is opening overcoming a stagnant stage of understanding of the built heritage as an object of contemplation and delight, to go into the active incorporation of this to the processes of development, it means, understanding the territorial heritage like support of economic and social development of a particular area.


A direct consequence of this is expanding the concept of heritage not only in its dimensional scale, but also to other thematic and structural scales. Thus, the idea of ​​fragmentary and partial, associated with a series of discrete, isolated and recognizable elements, result of a diverse and biased assessment of the story, broken, built in pieces, giving priority to certain aspects in many cases. We pass to another more complexity involved in understanding a changing reality that far exceeds its conceptualization in the nineteenth century linked to the preservation of monuments, historic gardens or what has a certain historical and artistic value to incorporate as well those territories adjectival heritage.
We witness, therefore, To its consideration as a protect unit which is inserted and participated in the urban and natural environment where it is, introducing tangible or intangible considerations: rituals, festivals, lights, smells, tastes, sounds ... of anthropological character, testimony of the collective and individual memories which meant at the time the extension of the Heritage designation by the Cultural Heritage in recognition of not only the historical and artistic value of the property but also its significance.


A final step and has been considering a new heritage designated by the term Cultural Landscape linked to a concept of patrimonial that addresses the urban environment and urban grid, but also those natural places that have environmental values ​​and a cultural significance, thereby producing an ever closer relationship between the natural and cultural heritage. This extension of the concept of cultural property to its environment will occur as a result of a social feeling of loss of representative places and spaces part of the natural heritage which is held in high esteem and are now in constant change and risk.


So, from the idea of ​​monument as Cultural Interest Property isolated, we move to the understanding of the property in its location beyond a reduced environment, as part of authenticity to expand its boundaries, it is a more abstract concept of anthropic environment, place and landscape. Thus, the patrimonial consideration today passes smoothly from the territory of the object and the uniqueness of the monument to the artistic cultural landscape. The heritage is no longer just the monumental, which has historical and artistic value, but also what contributes to the identity of people, values ​​that can be physical or not.


This radical change means that the parameters of the models and strategies that govern their protection, regulation and action,they need to evolve from its nineteenth century base to its consideration within the epistemological, ideological, political, cultural and technical parameters.


The assumption of this new notion, due to its complexity, involves an extension beyond the discipline's traditional activity of conservation and restoration related to the idea of ​​monument, to overcome the common notion and embrace those cultural pieces that show special situations of wealth and complexity. So it will occur disciplines such as history, anthropology, law, architecture, archeology and geography ... and increasingly scientific and technical disciplines.


Nevertheless, as more and more voices are raised in this regard, restrictive consideration is still predominant and in most cases determinant. So are those aspects that focus exclusively on the inner meaning of objects or cultural property that become, most occasions, in the focus during the development of heritage project, closely linked to the body of work appreciated as valuable legitimate and backed by its historical prestige and symbolic. This implies a way of conceptualizing the heritage in a static way, that set aside or thoughtless the largest component of the heritage that referred to its conception as essentially unlimited, permanently open and refers to the restriction of inventoried.


Going further on this concept, Can we think that buildings, spaces, territories, constructed to be occupied in a certain way, are now a new found spaces? Even subaltern or servers spaces that were never designed for human occupation, invisible to our eyes, Could they now appear, without its meaning, or as attractive alternative to the contemporary city? Finding those places, redefine, put them in charge, reprogramming, that will be the key work that many teams should develop in the near future.

These ideas are the starting point of these workshops, thus material for thought and research: places or spaces that because of the modern territorial system configuration, they can be in the inside the urban areas, in urban peripheries or part of the big territorial spaces between cities, rural areas reduced and isolated between massive buildings or communication networks, and very unstable and vulnerable, but vital to our planet.


ORGANIZATION

This laboratory, understanding it as a unit, will be developed in four phases, chronologically and spatially separated, in everyone we will point on different approaches to the idea of ​​heritage. Will host workshops at schools of architecture of Granada (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Sao Paulo (Brazil).

It is for students and teachers of architecture, but also experts from other related disciplines. The possibility of having the support of the UN Habitat program and other state or local governments or cultural associations, public or private, will give us more incidence and real approach on the issues to deal with.

We will organize the tasks in several working groups, coordinated by professors and architects of international prestige, working on depressed areas, which are an strategic place in the city and which value needs to be reinforce.

The proposals will be accompanied and supported by lecture and visits to buildings and areas of interest, to complement the workshop activity.

PRODUCTION

The activities generated from this event, both lecture and projects and study material will be compiled in a publication such as publicity materials for subsequent meetings, consultation and research.

The expected result is to obtain high-quality concrete proposals that will contribute in some way to improving the current situation in urban, architectural, social and environmental issues, so it will work with local, regional or state governments, depending of the urban development of each area.

TOPICS

Granada
(Spain)
26 november/ 3 december
2011
TOWARDS A NEW TERRITORIAL CULTURE flooded land of the Genil River in Palma del Río. Córdoba.
Understanding the territory as a limited resource. Emphasizing the different scales, connections, mobility and speed, looks, layering, social realities, cultures, green factor, etc. working with a specific topic on the Genil River flooded and his impact on the population.
Buenos Aires
(Argentine)
20 / 25 February
2012
Urban recycling
Giving new life to what already is built, "reprogram", It goes through a solvent, open and unprejudiced reflection, border with scientific attitudes, social, anthropological, economic, artistic ... able to take formal criteria to the service of users and not vice versa. Rehabilitation and restoration, enhancement, protection and conservation of heritage, sensitive to issues of identity and collective memory.
Copenhague
(Denmark)
15 / 20 October
2012
Habitat / rehabilitation versus new plant
Small operations can achieve the miracle of renewal that a thousand times over the centuries has been rehearsed. Coming from rehabilitation has giving surprising results like restoring the social cohesion in a neighborhood or the recovery of degraded historic neighborhoods in the city. From the strictly heritage we need to a qualitative jump to open new areas of experimentation. The great challenge today is to focus on buildings, neighborhoods, industrial parks, public spaces, terrains vagues, favelas or shanty towns proliferated, decades ago, made by public emergency or after the war or insane private developments, always speculative situations. Restore dignity to these disparate and diffuse pieces the city today as the new field of action of the architect.
Sao Paulo
(Brazil)
18 / 23 February
2013
New public spaces

Rereading the urban
grid starting from what we inherited, to open the field for experimentation. The strategic restructuring of the tissue and redefining new areas of social relationship from its current meaning to incorporate in the contemporary thinking.



SCHOOLS AND ORGANIZATIONS
  • Escola da Cidade São Paulo. Brasil.
  • Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada. Universidad de Granada. España.
  • Facultad de Arquitectura. Universidad de Palermo. Argentina.
  • Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation. The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Denmark
  • Post graduate program  Urban Strategies.
    University of Applied Arts Vienna die Angewandte
Professors
Marisol García Torrente. Granada. España
Ubaldo García Torrente. Granada. España
Andrea Tapia. Alghero. Italia
María Gómez-Guillamón. Copenhague. Dinamarca
Reiner Zettl. Viena, Austria
Daniel Silberfaden. Buenos Aires. Argentina
Ciro Pirondi. Sao Paulo. Brasil
Anália Amorin
José Carlos López Cervantes. Viena


PARTICIPANTS

Architecture students and architects, historians
, also possible acceptance of artists, sociologists, archaeologists, civil engineers, etc..
SCHEDULE OF ACTIVITIES

conferences
workshop
viewsTEACHING HOURS

48 hours are planned for each workshop teaching

PROGRAM

Specific programs will be published
before each workshop.