What today is included in the expression "Urban Creativity" refers first of all to the different cultural, creative and artistic phenomena of (graffiti) writing, street art and (new) muralism. At the root of these artistic works there is a strongly typical aptitude that is performed in the relationship of the author with the public, urban context, for the need to leave a sign, expose a discomfort or tell a story, thus acting intentionally on a place. Rather frequently, over the past fifty years, this author-context interaction has found expression in marginal areas, in collective spaces or on public surfaces, and generally in abandoned and self-enclosed places. Over the last twenty years these practices, in their multiple varieties, have been formalized and acquired in different ways. Currently they are appreciated, supported and managed as urban regeneration projects by public administration and associations. Suburban neighborhoods, abandoned industrial areas, marginalized places, but also hamlets - new peri-urban centralities and other areas in crisis - are prompted to be re-identified by such interventions, and perhaps to receive new attention, but certainly they are urged to activate their adaptiveness. For these and other reasons, the widespread diffusion, the pervasiveness and the extension - even temporal - of the phenomenon in its various forms suggests to analyse the adaptive response of different places to the introduction of Art works and creativity, in order to evaluate their incisiveness in urban history. In this respect, therefore, reversing the most usual point of view, it is worthwhile to observe the actions and the effect of Urban creativity, focusing on the context to analyze the response that it gives back on various aspects, including: changes in the reading and use of the urban landscape; the changes triggered in the adjacent city; the effects generated in the social framework; the possibility of a microeconomic start-up; the integration of value - material or immaterial - acquired by the building and / or place; the predisposition to subsequent transformation projects. Giallo copia maccheronica non verificata
L’azione della creatività urbana nella città contemporanea: gli effetti sui contesti
Maria Teresa Como
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2024-01-01
Abstract
What today is included in the expression "Urban Creativity" refers first of all to the different cultural, creative and artistic phenomena of (graffiti) writing, street art and (new) muralism. At the root of these artistic works there is a strongly typical aptitude that is performed in the relationship of the author with the public, urban context, for the need to leave a sign, expose a discomfort or tell a story, thus acting intentionally on a place. Rather frequently, over the past fifty years, this author-context interaction has found expression in marginal areas, in collective spaces or on public surfaces, and generally in abandoned and self-enclosed places. Over the last twenty years these practices, in their multiple varieties, have been formalized and acquired in different ways. Currently they are appreciated, supported and managed as urban regeneration projects by public administration and associations. Suburban neighborhoods, abandoned industrial areas, marginalized places, but also hamlets - new peri-urban centralities and other areas in crisis - are prompted to be re-identified by such interventions, and perhaps to receive new attention, but certainly they are urged to activate their adaptiveness. For these and other reasons, the widespread diffusion, the pervasiveness and the extension - even temporal - of the phenomenon in its various forms suggests to analyse the adaptive response of different places to the introduction of Art works and creativity, in order to evaluate their incisiveness in urban history. In this respect, therefore, reversing the most usual point of view, it is worthwhile to observe the actions and the effect of Urban creativity, focusing on the context to analyze the response that it gives back on various aspects, including: changes in the reading and use of the urban landscape; the changes triggered in the adjacent city; the effects generated in the social framework; the possibility of a microeconomic start-up; the integration of value - material or immaterial - acquired by the building and / or place; the predisposition to subsequent transformation projects. Giallo copia maccheronica non verificataI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
