hello good night thank you all for
come and hear what we have to
propose my name tells becerril
as they said I am executive director of the
open international mexican festival
of design I’m going to talk about
by way of conclusion at the end of the
talk
I am a curator of critical design
also design and architect of
profession
I decided to leave the architecture for
then propose in a way maybe
from the abstract how to improve our
environment and how to make our lives
a happier place and like from us
as citizens and as creators we can
make these proposals without needing
expect from the outside to come these
proposals but from us as
change our reality is this talk
they define reality la la la titled the
Affective profession of public space
that is from how from us from
cities of citizens and from the
society we can make changes
significant to occupy so
different and significant the environment that
surrounds us and provide it with context provide it
of new values and making that space
physical where we connect all
us a more livable world more
happy for the community that they do not have in
where we connect, I’m going to divide this
talk in four sections the first
I will speak from the part of utopia
from a few fatalistic utopias
but do not panic, I’m going to talk
from a more realistic utopias and
then I will talk about two solutions
some historic solutions that have
allowed to visualize a future more more
desirable and then a solution is more
contemporaries that where we can
find some examples of what
some creators propose students
government bodies how can we
appropriating space effectively
I do not know what surrounds us
I’d like to start with one with a phrase
that from here part a bit this
visualization and it’s a one sentence of a
French thinker and philosopher Michel
foucault and he quoted him because a lot of
what I’m going to be talking about relates
with this French thought
French technology and michelle focus on
one of his books called of outer
space is or utopias and heterotopies
mentions that the present time maybe
it was above all the time of space
this space where it connects not only
in a physical way but also in a way
virtual our society what are
these fatalistic utopias good first
I would like to talk about a character
architect of berkeley university
that has a several books between them
a book called pattern language in
where christopher mentions is called
christopher alexander where he mentions that
our physical reality is much more
desirable when it is built from the
society not from what we expect that
the architects are the planners
build but from the way you
we use the space by
example in these images that are very
classic of New York life where
we see these buildings with the
stairs always outside of those of
These high or low buildings the
people how they live their context of
very punctual and very local way and this
permeates the city and make the city a
little bit more livable
then that’s what it represents
that this was alexander is to say how
from society we can appropriate and
and give meaning to new values at
space
however there have been Persian thinkers
that glimpse a catastrophe and of
bordeaux another French thinker of the 60s
in his seminal book of sos haiti
show said that our reality
is mediated by images and that’s how
we live it now 60 almost 70 years ago
then we realize that actually
without social networks in support
the way we connect there is
another thinker who also in the sixties
an American named rainer are going to
write a book called theory
and design in the face book machine edge
and he presents what is the story of the
first the second and the third was of
the machine and glimpses a fourth of the
machine where it says or that we already
we appropriate technology but now
technology is appropriating
us and is returning us a one
mechanism of this technology is not
almost a fatalistic future think about this
there are examples of how we interact already
virtually with people no longer
we use public space to live and
live together
there are data that show that in our
modern lives
let’s spend 5.5 years connected to
social networks
this means for example going out to
walk 93 thousand times to our dog hear
32 times to the moon then there is a
total disconnection that is guiding not
satisfies the virtual and disconnecting us from
the values that we can physically
share with society
other examples that do not glimpse a
undesirable future is the proliferation
from the pop tops the pop tops for their
Acronyms in French in English mean
lion published spaces
if we thought that public space is
public because it’s for society
there are companies that buy public space
to governments and these spaces
public are restricted in spite of
that like this one in london they got the
largest pop in europe seem
spaces where one can live together
they are calmly regulated and there
certain things that one can not do
outside of these pge for example I do not know if
it has touched them that suddenly they are
photographing a building and the guard
he tells you out of here can not you
photography
how it can be possible on the sidewalk
in the public space because it is not space
public was bought by that is dry that
corporate
well there is also an example of how
society from its own values is
changing that
a clear example is that of a few years ago
we live in mexico
this manifestation that he gave is that
stopped a movement the movement of
of wanting to build a cultural corridor
chapultepec
What are these positive ideas
Positive ideas usually come from
from the creative discipline itself
there have been many thinkers who since
from his perspective especially in
terms of architecture and urbanism have
proposed utopian ideas maybe but
that we have appropriated and resignified from
way not utopian but in a way a
little more tangible in our day to day
how to resignify the environment that we
surrounds
the first example is the example of a
English architect called his name was called
sergio and price a visionary of the future
and this is one of those projects called
the phone paddles and it was a structure and
Itinerant which housed around
50,000 and 55,000 visitors and provided
cultural infrastructure to a city
then people could get to
appropriate a theater of a place to
give workshops and this was moving from
place to place
another example of other English utopians
here a collective of architects wins
interesting he proposed many projects
among them two who introduced them to
very suggestive names this one called
wakin city living city that same case
are these mega structures that reach
cities appropriate space and
allow people and generate
activities that mean you that
they are important to their own
society and this last example of the
Utopias is an example of an architect
Hungarian French named john claim that
he proposed in all his utopian projects
these mega structures that came and went
will be implemented in the city for the
same way to make people get
will take over your possibilities of
appropriate the city which
historically the solutions have been
who have proposed the disciplines
creative or creative organizations
we have the example in 1889 of one of the
first not the first favorite them
I talk the first of an exhibition
universal everyone we know the
eiffel tower
eiffel was designed to make the milestone
the emblem of the of the community
french
within this great universal exhibition
I made it in some other pavilions
countries and is intended as a
ephemeral structure that was going to last only
20 years
however this structure stayed and
what has meant from the moment
that the eiffel engineer built it is
a space that allows more than a milestone
architectural a space where people
arrives and appropriates ds from that area of
sena river
other examples in 1851 the first
universal exhibition of 2010 and vision to
fgv in london at the crystal palace will be
a space where it was exhibited designed the
first time this design is exhibited
way and what it allows is to generate other
spaces that today are spaces
most important of those at the heart of the
English society
hi park and all your space around and
the museums around are generated from
of this exhibition 100 years later as
commemoration of the exhibition is generated
of festival or scream is the first time
that the river is used in a way
cultural
before the English did not go out to the street
they even died for going out on the street in
era of the queen victory by the
pollution and from here the
Englishmen walk down the river
Thames , coffees are generated that give
street etcetera then this is a
change of English society but that
also permeates society
currently what solutions do we find?
what we see what thinkers do and
the critics
we have the architect the example of richard
rogers an English architect also that
very visionary of defined that if not
it is from him from the government itself that
generates public policies it is difficult for
as a society these moments remain
that do not turn to ladies moments and that
I do not know if not that they become reality is
forceful yes stay in the
future
richard rogers with the half flower where
that then ken livingstone generated
several organizations within the
government that allowed to create projects
as public hundred countries that
allowed
creators join with society and
promote the creation of new
Public spaces in Mexico
which are some of the examples in
specific I want to tell you about the festival
that I direct that he is the Mexican open
of design that happens once a year in
the historical center in October and that its
fundamental mission is to bring the design closer
society the reason why what
we do is as far as we know
better our physical environment our
our visual material culture we can
respond much better to her
the festival appropriates venues
culturally rich to put
designer creations
Contemporary Mexicans and foreigners
but also and above all it appropriates
public space of the city of mexico
which is the heart of the city of
historical Center
this is an explosive an installation of
of the most important lighting designer
international municipal level of media
This is an installation that generates a
collective Mexican architecture a
installation in the plaza santo domingo de
a Mexican graphic designers a
installation outside near the temple
Mayor of a Spanish collective and English
an installation in the central mall of
an architect of a florist who
literally throws flowers the space to
his mom coto japan is a facility of
Mexicans Hector Esrawe and Nacho
chain in the central mall and a
installation of two English designers
graphics more at my luck morgan in the
capital socket
with this facility today end that
talk to reinforce this idea as
from the creative society from the
creative disciplines we can propose
in this case maybe examples a little
ephemeral but that resignifican spaces
specific to our city as of
suddenly we can get to the socket and
Colombians in the zocalo that of some u
otherwise we could not do otherwise
is for the creation of a festival or
creative thinkers who contribute and who
they give other meanings to space
public
so I want you to go with this
idea of how as a society we can
Approach To Approach Resignify Give
value to this physical space for
generate connections and to reinforce those
connections that are necessary in this
world a little more analog or digital
that’s all good night thanks
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