Obiettivo The hypothesis is advanced that the materialization of a spatial configuration is inversely proportional to its social ritualization. Architectural modernity, seeking to open space to the outside, rendering it incorporeal and abstract, would in reality have involved strengthening the recognised boundaries ritualised by society and absorbed by the individual. The task will be to test this hypothesis by studying the urban tradition and architectural modernity in the context of the problems concerning the relationship between material space and existential space. Observation of the towns accessible has led to pluridisciplinary research into representations of space: speech, maps, plans, mediation through images or signs, mental maps, and so on. Another subject is the study of an architectural space of particular importance to the life of towns, namely, the thresholds of the urban scene constituted by public spaces, the places where the social actors give an image of themselves that fits them into an overall framework. The aim of this study will be to grasp these spaces by showing, besides the boundaries that enclose them and the thresholds that punctuate them, the setting they present to the view. Street or cul-de-sac, square or cross-roads, garden or avenue: these are spaces of performance in which self- manifestation may be more or less strong. The relation between these spaces relate ways of being and seeming to ways of having. Are they the sites of a process of personalization, or of massification, or of marginalization? Can they be experienced in the context of urban modernity? This research will combine morphological analysis of a sample of public spaces selected for their architectural qualities as thresholds with semiological analysis of the observable behaviour of social actors in public. The fields of inquiry will be built-up areas of various sizes situated in different cultural regions. Qualitative analysis of the data collected will be followed by quantitative processing that allows of a comparative approach. The study will thus seek to understand, in the light of geographical and cultural conditions, what share architectural dimensions and large-scale urban capital-construction works have in the problems of public space in contemporary towns. Programma(i) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Argomento(i) 72 - Social Sciences Invito a presentare proposte Data not available Meccanismo di finanziamento Data not available Coordinatore Université de Genève Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo Uni Bastions 1211 Genève 4 Svizzera Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Partecipanti (2) Classifica in ordine alfabetico Classifica per Contributo UE Espandi tutto Riduci tutto Institut de Recherche et de Projet en Urbanisme de St. Petersburg Russia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 197342 St. Petersburg Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato Université de Paris IV- Sorbonne Francia Contributo UE Nessun dato Indirizzo 75005 Paris Mostra sulla mappa Costo totale Nessun dato
