CONTEXT URBAN. COMUNICARE VIZUALĂ Graffiti-ul ca manifestare a heterotopiei
URBAN CONTEXT. VISUAL COMMUNICATION. Graffiti as a Manifestation of Heterotopia

Summary/Abstract: City and imaginary architectural space oscillate between two typological categories – utopia and dystopia, to which we can add the contemporary concept of heterotopia. Michel Foucault defines heterotopia as an actually realized utopia, a counter-location, a place outside any place, even if it is localizable. In contrast to utopia, heterotopia is a different kind of space, a mythical and at the same time real challenge of the space in which we live. There are two major types of heterotopias, namely crisis and deviation, but also a less common category of compensation heterotopias. What is offered to us is more than an illusion of another world, it is precisely a compensation for the shortcomings of evil, a world organ-zed according to totally different values and criteria.

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