I re read Ignasi De Sola Morales Rubio article on Terrain Vague. This article had much more relevance to what has happened academically this week. While blogging remained speculative and slightly unnecessary, I took leisure in kicking back and enjoying this text.
He starts off the the essay with a comparison through the medium of photography and relating how artists see our city, through traditional means of composition, have found a new paradigm.
Terrain Vague is a French term which has several different connotations when spoken in the English language. It refers to accumulation and juxtaposition of experiencing the city. Its translation is closest to 'questionably vacant urban spaces'. These spaces exist outside the city's effective circuits & structures.
This article reminds us of the messy realism that we exists in. We become strangers to ourselves, and as society changes infinitly faster than we can comrephend it, we become more nomadic and disconnected.
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What are the possible effects of Sola-Morales's on material and immaterial conditions? Is technology party to shifting urban landscapes that produce these kind of territories?
ReplyDeleteThese spaces can be abstracted to be either. I believe that since they are vague and un-programmed, techi solutions can fit with damaging the context.
ReplyDeleteFor example, if you consider our campus as a mini city, where would the Terrain Vague be? Possibly the waste reclamation site on north campus, or how about the grassy knoll that boarders Glenoaks Blvd?