REFLECTING ON ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS AS A WAY OF RESEARCHING THE PUBLIC REALM
REFLECTING ON ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS AS A WAY OF RESEARCHING THE PUBLIC REALM

Summary/Abstract: According to prevalent conceptions in political theory, democracy should be based on differences to accommodate the worlds of many different places and people, which signify that public space should not be designed exclusively for one part of society and that all cities should not look in the same direction for city images to copy. This paper seeks to draw connections between architectural practice and current critical spatial theory with different contemporary viewpoints on the understanding of the public realm across different continents, political positions and cultural backgrounds. It gathers a collection of practices, theoreticians and things that hopefully can explicate an approach to architecture taking the measurable and the immeasurable as well as the visible and the invisible into account. It explores the possibilities of creating public spaces from action and not from form, to understand the newness in such an approach and to find tools to express what we see, what we think about it and what we can do with that knowledge. The intention of bringing practice and theory in close relation to each other is not to have a mutual illustration of the two, but to provide a common ground for creation of new thoughts and insights when planning and designing for the future.

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