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The uses

Andrés Flajszer

Since the beginning of the 20th century there have been attempts to subvert public space as a place for political control and unbridled consumption. However, it was the sixties that saw the proliferation of experiments that aimed to reinvent, by means of play, ways of living the city.

Here, the playground became a metaphor for festive discrepancy. Writing and drawing became ways of transcending the utilitarian, rational and hygienist model and, at the same time, organizing the collective metropolitan experience.

The aim was, then, to conceive the territory as a kind of blank page to be written, and even open to multiple writings, to the crossings-out that allow us better to specify an idea, to the adjective that adds a certain particularity, to the adverb that links a thought with its opposite.

As opposed to the building that competes upwards, vertically, the sketch or outline in movement extends across the floors, building the city as it is managed by the community.