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Aerial view: Rosario's central riverside.

Vulnerable

Public
Space

Workshop

Optional Curricular Course (ECO) 2016-2017

Head Professor:
March. Susana Paganini.

Teaching team:
Arch. Soledad Chamorro (JTP)
Arch. María José Basualdo (aux.)

Complementary teaching team:
Arch. Lautaro Dattilo
Arch. Paola Meli

The Architectural Project is investigated as an instrument of disciplinary action to resolve situations of
vulnerability of the public space in cases of conflict between particular and general interests.
For architecture, public space is any exterior space, street, park, or square of common use, of free
accessibility, and materially defined (Sennett, 2001).
Investing, re qualifying, building new spaces, not only to improve or give a certain aesthetic dimension to
them, but also to value them as social capital, seems to be a sensitive attitude, as well as sensible. That is,
public spaces should not only be beautiful, so that neighbors can re signify them, but also facilitators of
meeting activities: sports, art, culture, recreation, forum or debate among neighbors. In short, the public
space as a stage, enabling platform for the generation of events, determined to collaborate with social
integration.

In this sense, it is proposed:
* To show the architectural project in its condition of prefiguring procedure of new interventions in the public
space from its social dimension: as a physical, material result, of the frictions and conflicts between private
and public interests.
* To explore, from a disciplinary perspective, the complex relationships that occur on the border between
particular interests and common interests in interventions in contemporary public space.
* To analyze examples of architectural projects in a situation of vulnerability, which have resolved particularly
conflictive cases taking unequivocally by common interests and as a consequence by the defense of public
space.
* To build a file of examples to facilitate the identification of similar types of problems in this field.
* To promote reflective practice through project exercises framed in this problem, tending to a diverse
collective production in the proposal of project strategies.

Excerpt from the 2016-2017 Program.