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fabulation session 20131107-8 AltArt, Transylvania. Faciliated by Istvan Szakats

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(notes from day 1)

Group – Rarita

Cities – general ideas

  • Most population in Europe lives in cities (60%?) – one cannot escape statistics
  • Surveillance – recent history ante ’89 vs traffic surveillance; to be watched (CCTV) vs, feeling constantly watched; anonymity in public spaces vs rural “surveillance” where you can’t escape getting noticed
  • City annihilates or amplifies individuality
  • Sectoral industry cities are different from continent to continent / country to country
  • Paris as example of homelessness, rats, misery vs tourism mania
  • Cities have different orientations (industrial, cultural, touristic)
  • The issue of ghost cities, abandoned or failed cities (ex. Detroit, Chinese cities)
  • Pathological behaviors in cities
  • Homelessness – big in capital cities, small or non-existence in small cities
  • One is always a minority and never the target of everything that is going on in a city.
  • Sustainability – cities are the least sustainable form
  • Everything that has to do with cities is a paradox
  • Every city has a potential for a better path to the future
  • Rural-urban distinction

Characteristics :

  • Lots of people
  • Crowds
  • Special districts for all tastes/hobbies – thematic, food, cultural, for specific groups
  • Concentration yet variety
  • Cities cluster/marginalize on specific purposes (case of immigrants- rent price control, parking control)
  • Communities that always “flock together“, small communities
  • Traffic – the too many cars issues yet cars define social status and become a ”must have”
  • There is always a chance for leisure activities (running exercise)
  • Biking is more and more used
  • Lots of services
  • Geography / landscape defines cities
  • Eco-cities and real sustainable cities– can they exist ?
  • Food – farmers, bio products

Likes – What do a like/love in a city??

  • There are communities for everything
  • Divers population
  • Safety
  • Cities are “walk-able”
  • Multicultural and the challenges to deal with it
  • History
  • Multiples, culture crash
  • Cities are too big to experience
  • The chance to change cities
  • Concentration
  • Gaining anonymity
  • Variety
  • Cities as culture magnets
  • Velocity – speed, access, information, mobility
  • Variety of foods / cuisines
  • Connectivity, internet and easy access
  • Freedom and obscurity
  • Different cultural backgrounds and different styles
  • The chance to make choices
  • Regenerative cities – cities can transform, improve themselves – urban planners, architects , landscape architects can use challenging concepts to transform cities
  • Love a city that still has/keeps a human size
  • Changing realities
  • Friendly people
  • Interest in marginal groups
  • Infinite freedom
  • you can find communities that welcome you
  • getting the chance not to be noticed

Dislikes – What do I hate most in cities?

  • Stigmatization
  • Racism
  • Bad urban planning – historical vs new neighborhoods
  • Lack of forests
  • Traffic jams
  • Claustrophobic
  • Dependence on resources
  • Distance from nature
  • Concentration of people that never talk to each other
  • Loosing anonymity
  • Social/public spaces that make you feel strange
  • Intolerance
  • Getting the chance not to be noticed
  • Lack of interest of who you are
  • Distraction
  • Burden of making choices
  • Loneliness (an appearance? Lonely groups cancel themselves out)
  • No place for losers – just for successful people
  • The social pressure to show you are successful
  • Hating the city itself because everything manmade is not perfect
  • Crime ; crime happens if neighborhood structure allows it.
  • The inhumanity of the city – it does not work on human scale, timeframes, imposes roles, lack of access,
  • Dependence on resources (ex. electricity)
  • Bad urban planning..
  • Garbage / waste
  • Ignorance
  • Many choices but actually trivial
  • Lack of safety
  • Crime – riots
  • Protests , strikes
  • Pollution,
  • Strikes
  • Unfriendly for animals – created for the interest of the supreme human race.
  • Cities grow without a limit
  • Sexual violence, sexual assaulting, domestic violence
  • Ignorance

Others

  • Poverty vs richness,
  • Rules and slaves,
  • Small image, big image,
  • City is always on the verge of collapse
  • Using more images then before
  • Internet – urbanization of mental space
  • You have limited time to generate as many identities as you like.
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