ABSTRACT

The cityscape is currently built more as a sign that proclaims the saturation of the capacity to transform our surroundings, than as an abstract and subjective concept of the spectator. Artificial and anthropised, it does not respond to our idea of inhabitable paradises. Resigned to its destruction as the cost of progress, the city planning discipline is still unable to get beyond the dialectic between growth and the protection of the landscape.

When the logic of structuring of elements that shape shared places is unbalanced, there is a strong upsurge in the de-ordering of these spaces, materialised by an absence of unitary rules for transformation and a landscaping confusion proper to economies in other latitudes. The identification of these processes must lead to strategies of transformation that posit a territorial rebalance.

Conceiving a seminar on landscape and the city in the framework of this second Biennial on Architecture, Art and Landscape, previously divested of prejudices on city planning currently based on the production and consumption of land, responds to an interest in projecting urban scenarios on a human scale, in daring to build the ideal city.

PROGRAMME

2 April (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) CAAM

10,00 - 21,00 h.