DIAGRAMMING PRAXIS: WHERE-WHY-WHO-WHAT-HOW?
workshop by Teddy Cruz, presentation
DESIGNING CIVIC ENCOUNTER
Ramallah, July 24, 2011
DIAGRAMMING PRAXIS:
WHERE-WHY-WHO-WHAT-HOW?
workshop by Teddy Cruz, discussion
DESIGNING CIVIC ENCOUNTER
Ramallah, July 24, 2011
Fundamental to the rethinking of socio-economic inequality and uneven urbanization in the last years is the translation of the entrepreneurial intelligence embedded in many marginal immigrant neighborhoods. The hidden socio-economic relations and resources within these communities' non-conforming patterns of development continue to be off the radar of conventional top down planning institutions. It is in the context of these conditions where a different role for art, architecture, environmental and community activist practices can emerge. One that goes beyond the metaphorical representation of people, where only the community's symbolic image is amplified instead of its operative dimension. These communities' invisible urban praxis needs artistic interpretation and political representation and this is the space of intervention institutions of culture and governance need to engage.
