Counter-conduct and aesthetic experience
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2016
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This paper is a part of an ongoing research regarding the “deviated use of space”, developed within the framework of a Masters degree thesis. Its main goal is to investigate the agents and factors that guide social behavior and how it affects the aesthetic experience of people who use the physical structures of public spaces. The term “deviated” is a translation of the French word “détournement”, used by the participants of the Situationist International, one of the theoretical references that inspired this discussion. The term is the reduction of the expression “detournement [deviation] of preexisting aesthetic elements”, which states a new way of appropriation of artistic elements in everyday life through the construction of situations. Thus the “deviated use of space” drafts the aesthetic experience of Architecture as an element that could allow people to perceive and to criticize the city beyond the spectacular contemplation of its elements. The research problem refers to the way how the public space, more specifically bus stops and stations, are appropriated by its users, considering that these places are conceived in a way that privileges its function as a component of a rationalized transport system, instead of taking into account the part it plays as a place for social encounter and dialogue. The investigation concerns bus stops as part of the city’s public spaces, considering that they have a vocation to be, simultaneously, a place where people stay while they are waiting for transportation and also a place of transit, bearing in mind that it has to respond to a functional demand for the urban mobility system as part of a rationalized integrated network. Spatial programming is capable of limiting the ways its structure is used; therefore it has a direct influence on its users liberty for spatial action. The study of “deviated uses” concentrates on practices that are not limited by the programmed and regulated use of space as a consequence of social empowerment in contemporary urban everyday life.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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