Discovering scarcity: urban storytelling. Ten days of inventions, doubts, encounters, fallacies and working tools
| dc.contributor.author | Maioli, Serena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-27T09:09:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-27T09:09:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
| dc.description | Architecture & Planning in Times of Scarcity : Reclaiming the Possibility of Making. 3rd AESOP European Urban Summer School 2012, Manchester | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The first day I heard about scarcity, I was primarily curious about its meaning. In ten days, I discovered that no univocal explanation is possible. We can start debunking a myth: scarcity is not just a condition that exists in the poorest countries in the world. The urban experience of scarcity is ambiguous as a snake which sneaks around us changing its shape. Scarcity, suddenly, appears as the other face of richness, the dark edge of crystal skyscrapers: in the age of endless desire related to possession, whenever we discover inequalities, we see the fail of redistribution represented by a widespread condition of scarcity. I begin to look for a different angle, partially dark and partially shining, which allows me not to determine if I am seeing scarcity, but to understand the reason why the urban environment can be seen as scarce (just) by certain people. Now I am ready to discover when the snake changes its skin, and why. | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-0-9927823-1-3 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 237-240 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1616 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | SoftGrid in association with AESOP and IFHP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All Rights Reserved | en |
| dc.source | Architecture & Planning in Times of Scarcity : Reclaiming the Possibility of Making. 3rd AESOP European Urban Summer School 2012, Manchester | en |
| dc.title | Discovering scarcity: urban storytelling. Ten days of inventions, doubts, encounters, fallacies and working tools | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |