DESPRE EXPERIMENTE ŞI ARHEOLOGII URBANE. BUCUREŞTI
ABOUT EXPERIMENTS AND URBAN ARCHAEOLOGIES. BUCHAREST

Summary/Abstract: Present contribution aims to raise some questions about the signs and symbols whose presence, appearance or disappearance, delimits emotional landmarks and experiments within the urban space, or simply refers to the archaeology dictionary of city happenings. Signs and symbols, statues and buildings – monuments – are an important part of cultural and emotional space; their appearance and disappearance often mark our present, the transition and spatial temporality, structuring the memory on the city. Many arises discussions, polemic, questions and debates. Whether they treat victory, power, commemoration, the Oriental crying of loss or the Balkan state, those are also the hypostases of emotional and urban experiment they propose to the city. The perception of the urban space rewards them with due consideration of the experiment: turns them into accepted elements, or rejects them, concealing behind forced denominations like their presence. Image decomposition is performed on successive layers, of points and textures (blurred images) up to lines, urban sequences and then objects. Viewer’s acuity depends on the habitude of sight, the pleasure of contemplation and the formation of conscious algorithms of image-thinking link type. The experimentation of an urban space is related to the identification of landmarks, signs, objects situated in the background or close to human scale. In an urban space like Bucharest the landmarks are related to understanding the meanings of the atmosphere with traversing the physical or the emotional place. Marking the space with evocative symbols is a particular type of urban experiment; building the symbol, its removal or replacement requires an expense, some implication and assuming.

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