Marta Yago Abenoza
Architecture
Since we were born, we are guided by some pre-established paths that not even the people who take us there have questioned for themselves.
The first thing to highlight about this would be the guide, why this guide is necessary, it could be because the human being is social by nature, and if you want to live in community, certain norms, of behaviour, of language, of culture ... so, if no one "guided", these rules could wobble to the point of breaking them.
But who has invented these rules? People who are interested in maintaining control, control is power, and there will always be people who want to have it, so these rules, which abide, above all, people who do not have the power, are made precisely to that so that the latter cannot get to have it. (You could talk here about class struggle and all the history and social classes that have been created, marginalized and mitigated ...).
This fact gives what to think about education, who teaches us? And what do they teach us? While it is true that everything can be learned, special attention should be paid to family education and that of teachers.
It can be taken for granted that education within the family nucleus will rarely be objective, most parents or guardians end up instilling what they consider, whether values, ideology, beliefs ... But in the case of teachers, it tends to be thought that this kind of education is going to be objective, why it would not be, because just as history is written by those who win the wars, our whole system is built on beliefs, tastes, and customs of the ruling class , because in the end, they are the ones who win these wars.
Education | Inculcation | Indoctrination
Through the Spanish Postwar
Social segregation in public spaces, Dublin's example
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The purpose of this work is to understand how, where and why this new way of projecting the city has been created that creates difficult to inhabit spaces oriented opposite to a certain type of citizens such as homeless people and people in situations of risk or limit, through the city of Dublin.
Through the study of this city, light can be obtained on the processes that can increasingly be found in any city with a considerable population. Through the study of Dublin in particular, the aim is to find patterns and data that form a link between this architecture, society and history.
For this, different contexts are analyzed, such as social, economic, historical and cultural, which define the existence of a direct relationship between the places with the highest population density and where there are more tourist places with the areas in which Hostile architecture has been projected, so in this way, it can be deduced that tourism has been one of the turning points for this type of architecture over time, given that both phenomena have developed side by side.
Although this factor is one of the ones that has had the most weight in the advance of this architectural hostility, it will not be the only one that we will find, since it is also interesting to study equally the places where it has more or less proliferated, as residential areas of high economic level, lower density and also areas where renowned companies have placed part of their infrastructure, which are also worse communicated or with less public transport offer.
Finally, also make the fact of ignorance and social invisibility to these designs appear, which will appear more and more in our cities in a stealthy and harmful way for certain citizen groups.
Taking Certeau's words as a starting point, we can deduce that we have two ways of seeing the city, or rather, one to see it and the other to live it and that they are detached from each other.
Taking as reference two contemporary photographers with many points in common and difference, we will see how we can analyze Certeau's vision of the city through the photographs of Michael Wolf and Thomas Struth.
Both born in Germany in 1954, the fact that the first one studied in Berkeley and the second one at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, gave us a starting point in the subsequent comparison of their mode of operation as well as their vision and composition of the city.
Understanding Megacities
A comparison between the perspectives of Thomas Struth and Michael Wolf.
The readings that mainly support this writing are Rilke, R.M., 1929, Letters to a young poet, Madrid Spain, Editores Akal and Hegel, Q.W.F., YEAR, Lessons on aesthetics.
When they are presented separately, it is possible to think what the two may have in common, the truth is that trying to look for these similarities is when the differences that make them related are found.
Letters to a Young Poet is a small book where F. X. Kappus receives ten letters from Rilke, in which he answers his questions, not only about poetry but also about life because he encompasses everything on the same topic.
On the other hand, when beginning Lessons on aesthetics, one already looks with a certain scepticism regarding how it is possible to give guidelines or norms on aesthetics, beauty and art and with what criteria, since we have to take into account that, in the At first reading, it is a poet, a well-known artist who thinks about what he is or how he is, while in the second he is a philosopher, a thinker, but not an artist per se.
With all this, the doubt that can be detected from the beginning is the possibility of determining, explaining and teaching what art and beauty are and their relationship.available