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Sacco, P. L., Ghirardi, S., Tartari, M., & Trimarchi, M. (2019). Two versions of heterotopia: The role of art practices in participative urban renewal processes. Cities, 89, 199–208. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (5/3/26, 1:31 AM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (5/3/26, 6:24 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Published DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2019.02.013 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 0264-2751 BibTeX citation key: Sacco2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Art practices, Heterotopia, Participative urban regeneration Creators: Ghirardi, Sacco, Tartari, Trimarchi Collection: Cities Resources citing this (Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography) |
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The purpose of this paper is to take part in the debate about power relationships in contemporary cities between the agents of urban renewal and the local communities, as mediated by cultural and artistic interventions and projects. Our study proposes a new conceptual frame, focused on the comparison between two notions of heterotopia as theoretical alternatives for the interpretation of cities as social and participatory spaces. The notions we consider may be traced to two key thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Henri Lefebvre, and lay the foundation for alternative analytical paradigms of the contemporary urban condition, in relation to artistic and cultural practices in the public space. We draw upon these two alternative readings of heterotopia to explore the implications of the interaction of artistic practices with the urban space as a contested terrain from the viewpoint of power relationships. In our analysis, we find that Foucault's notion of heterotopia is potentially conducive to top-down planning processes and to gentrification. Lefebvre's notion is instead possibly more suited to participatory practices as strategies of reactivation of the right to the city.
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See (Foucault 1984; Lefebvre 1991). Foucault, M. (1984). Of other spaces, heterotopias. Architecture, Mouvement, Continuité, 5, 46–49. |
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"Foucault's heterotopia is centered upon a representational approach to space, and generates a dichotomous urban epistemology structured along polarizations such as center-periphery and elites-community. Foucault's heterotopia is consequently possibly conducive to a topdown dialectic [...] Lefebvre's notion of heterotopia, on the contrary, is un-representational, and proposes a dialectical vision of space as a canvas for social change. From a spatial point of view, Lefebvre's heterotopia focuses upon places where economic exchange is neglected, rather than allowed/denied, thus creating the conditions for re-imagining a collectively meaningful notion of urban habitat. In Lefebvre's view, heterotopies are created by practices: they flourish spontaneously from collective action, and express a romantic idea of urban revolution. The debate on the re-appropriation of the right to the city that follows a bottom-up approach originates from the Lefebvrian perspective, and is linked to the promotion of democratic civism and to the recovery of practices of citizenship"
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p. 201
Interpret Foucault's heterotopia as "a portion of an autonomous, centripetal territory, separated from the rest of the world, a space that lives for itself and which is closed in itself [...] spaces that question existing relations and create a moment of displacement, disconnection from an existing social, cultural and aesthetic order [it] connects to the hyper-economization of all aspects of social life as determined by the global prevalence of the neoliberal paradigm"
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