The project as a collective, collaborative, situated, performative and transdisciplinary experience. Delay, proximity and care architectures

Abstract

The city we inhabit, the territory we share, it is nowadays under revision, and urbanism is central to these reflections.

On the one hand, we want to explore procedures to deconstruct the traditional ways of producing architecture, based on individual skill, in order to promote them as collective processes, collaborative and transdisciplinary. On the other hand, we want to explore deeper into the architectures of delay, proximity and care, to enhance the pre-existing urban landscape and the sensitive encounter between people.

The research proposal is an approach from the experiences of "Territorio Tolosa" (Tolosa Territory), a collective project of urban contemplation and neighborhood transformation, comprised by architects, artists and the local community, which I have coordinated for the past five years. We have run walks around Tolosa, and different collective practices to re-signify the spaces we inhabit.

Our research questions those architectures that support hegemonic ways of producing controlled and a priori spaces, proposing instead open processes to participatory practices, which include walks and collective mapping as ways of thinking about urbanism.

Tolosa is neighborhood in La Plata city, Argentina. Tolosa will be taken as the research focus, to rethink the neighborhood in the XXI century from feminist perspective.