Local Cultures – Global Spaces
Abstract
This article deals with the contemporary crisis in urban landscape from a phenomenological point of view, presenting new research perspectives and analytical challenges for urban and landscape studies. This crisis in urban landscape is evident in the mapping of contemporary urban territories done by architects and urban scholars. These representations do not transmit desires, ideologies, or connotations. First, it reviews the understanding of the city as a multiple and a decentered research object by analyzing the space of perception, which makes possible to discover phenomenological relation of the self with the urban environment, the self-consciousness and self-awareness, and the individual’s mental engagement with ethe city. Second, it proposes research about the urban landscape carried by researchers from the Fine Arts field of study, a re-discovery of the urban spaces that are already known by visual empirical data. The city is discovered by individuals who take distance and “look”, individuals who “name” what they see and who “represent” it. Finally, it concludes by discussing some consequences of this examination of the city, especially looking at the qualitative parameters of the urban space and the reassertion of the problem of complexity, especially urban landscape complexity as a point of arrival for these artistic methodologies.
Silvia Lopez-Rodriguez (PhD in Sculpture – University of Granada, Spain) is Professor at the University of Malaga, Spain. She is also currently Vice Dean of Academic Affairs and Research at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Malaga, also director of ARTxt: Journal of artistic experimentation. The most relevant aspects of her curriculum are: Theoretical Research and Artistic Practice in the field of Contemporary Art and Sculpture. Specialization in Situationism, Situationist Drift, Analysis and perception of Urban Spaces. More info: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4161-5629
Bio Jesus Marin-Clavijo: Jesús Marín-Clavijo, Dean of the Malaga’s Faculty of Visual Arts, holds a PhD in Sculpture. His main line of research is the interdisciplinary relationship between sculpture, urban interventions and light in movement. His doctoral thesis entitled “The capture of light in movement as a sculptural medium”. His artistic research activity includes 29 national and international solo exhibitions. He has also participated in more than 65 national and international group exhibitions. His published research activity includes more than 20 contributions, both in books and book chapters. He has participated in numerous research projects and in numerous contracts for transfer to society.
Bio Stefano Regossini: Stefano Regossini is currently part of the Doctoral Program in Advanced Studies in Humanities doing his Doctoral Thesis on the Dynamic archetypes towards new megalithic horizons, that part of the research done in the Master’s Thesis tittled “A thread of nihilism that obtained a Honor plate”. Throughout these years of research, he’s also been able to participate in the XVIII International Congress on Environmental Sustainability in scientific journals with articles such as Nomadismo between differences and distinctions with teachers and researchers Jesús Marín-Clavijo and Silvia López Rodríguez. Recentely he’s presented with the researchers and artist group U.L.P.A.E.S. the international exhibition “The Submerged Intangible”.