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- Urbanism, Urban Planning, Critical Theory, Urban Geography, Self-Organization, Anarchism, and 28 moreArchitecture and Public Spaces, Self-Built Housing, - Architecture history, Urban Studies, Regionalism, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Urbanismo, Anarquismo, História Da Arquitectura E Urbanismo, History of Urban Planning, Patrick Geddes, Anarchist Geographies, Peter Hall, J. FC Turner, Élisée Reclus, Architectural Theory, Anarchist Studies, Giancarlo de Carlo, Elisée Reclus, Architecture and Participation, Architecture and politics, Sociology of Everyday Life, Architecture, Community and Urban Design / Planning, History of Architecture and Town Planning, Participative Methods, Geography, and Anarchist Geographyedit
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The chapter looks at human agency in communities, society, insurgent movements, and urban institutions with respect to the interpersonal relations that shape them and are shaped by them. Touching upon the fundamental question of who cares... more
The chapter looks at human agency in communities, society, insurgent movements, and urban institutions with respect to the interpersonal relations that shape them and are shaped by them. Touching upon the fundamental question of who cares for what, for whom, and why, the chapter reaches out for pioneer sociological contributions of Tönnies, Durkheim, and Simmel, who explored inner emotional obligations, outer social constraints, and the opposition between organic and mechanic care. Axel Honneth has taken these efforts together to outline the questions of conflict and justice in social, legal, and emotional struggles for recognition, linking subjective needs to social struggles and morality to resistance movements, deeply rooted in ethical relations-to-self. Highlighting political subjectivity and emotional rationality for urban planning and the role of planners, the chapter targets norms, forms, and scales of community and planning ethics, privilege, property, and housing questions, bringing Habermasian, insurgent, and anarchist planning scholars into the conversation.
Research Interests: Sociology, Political Sociology, Social Movements, Social Psychology, Political Philosophy, and 12 moreUrban Planning, Anarchism, Critical Social Theory, Urban Studies, History of Sociology, Urbanism, Intersubjectivity, Urban Sociology, Urban And Regional Planning, Frankfurt School, Critical urban theory, and Critical Urban Planning Theory
https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/ppa/article/view/20634 [eng] This article explores the case of the community design of La Maison Médicale, ´La Mémé', a collective housing project at the Medicine Faculty of the Catholic... more
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[eng] This article explores the case of the community design of La Maison Médicale, ´La Mémé', a collective housing project at the Medicine Faculty of the Catholic University of Louvain, designed and constructed by Lucien Kroll. Begun in 1969, the project has often been described as a work of ´anarchitectureµ, occupying a prominent place in the historiography of participatory methods. The main aim is to examine the project’s participatory dimension and its evolution in time by researching the notion of anarchitecture. To this end, it explores the term anarchitecture in association with the thinking of anarchist architects and urban planners in order to contextualize the tradition of which Kroll and his project form part. The main body analyses how, over time, this anarchitecture has been translated into the spatial forms and processes that make up La Mémé. To do so, it presents three resulting characteristics: organicity, community involvement and technical implementation, each addressed in terms of their conception in its design, use and possibilities for transformation today. It concludes with the key learnings that Kroll’s anarchitecture offers, based on reflections that question or challenge a simplified understanding of the idea of participation and its spatial conception.
KEYWORDS: anarchitecture; anarchism; user control; community design; collective housing; Lucien Kroll.
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[esp] Este artículo explora el caso de diseño comunitario de La Maison Médicale conocido como “La Mémé”, un proyecto de vivienda colectiva en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, diseñado y ejecutado por Lucien Kroll. Originado en 1969, el proyecto ha sido, a menudo, calificado como una obra de “anarquitectura” ocupando un lugar destacado en la historiografía sobre métodos participativos. El principal propósito consiste en examinar el proyecto desde su dimensión comunitaria y su evolución temporal a partir de investigar sobre la noción de anarquitectura. Con esta finalidad, exploramos el término anarquitectura asociado al pensamiento de arquitectos y urbanistas anarquistas para contextualizar la tradición en la que Kroll y su proyecto se inscriben. Como cuerpo principal, analizamos cómo esta anarquitectura se ha traducido, con el tiempo, en las formas espaciales y procesos que conforman La Mémé. Para ello presentamos tres características resultantes: organicidad, implicación comunitaria e implementación técnica, cada una de ellas abordadas desde su concepción en el diseño, uso y sus posibilidades de transformación presente. Finalmente concluimos con los principales aprendizajes que nos brinda la anarquitectura de Kroll a partir de reflexiones que cuestionan o ponen en duda una comprensión simplificada de la idea de participación y su concepción espacial.
PALABRAS CLAVE: anarquitectura; anarquismo; control del usuario; diseño comunitario; vivienda colectiva; Lucien Kroll.
[eng] This article explores the case of the community design of La Maison Médicale, ´La Mémé', a collective housing project at the Medicine Faculty of the Catholic University of Louvain, designed and constructed by Lucien Kroll. Begun in 1969, the project has often been described as a work of ´anarchitectureµ, occupying a prominent place in the historiography of participatory methods. The main aim is to examine the project’s participatory dimension and its evolution in time by researching the notion of anarchitecture. To this end, it explores the term anarchitecture in association with the thinking of anarchist architects and urban planners in order to contextualize the tradition of which Kroll and his project form part. The main body analyses how, over time, this anarchitecture has been translated into the spatial forms and processes that make up La Mémé. To do so, it presents three resulting characteristics: organicity, community involvement and technical implementation, each addressed in terms of their conception in its design, use and possibilities for transformation today. It concludes with the key learnings that Kroll’s anarchitecture offers, based on reflections that question or challenge a simplified understanding of the idea of participation and its spatial conception.
KEYWORDS: anarchitecture; anarchism; user control; community design; collective housing; Lucien Kroll.
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[esp] Este artículo explora el caso de diseño comunitario de La Maison Médicale conocido como “La Mémé”, un proyecto de vivienda colectiva en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Católica de Lovaina, diseñado y ejecutado por Lucien Kroll. Originado en 1969, el proyecto ha sido, a menudo, calificado como una obra de “anarquitectura” ocupando un lugar destacado en la historiografía sobre métodos participativos. El principal propósito consiste en examinar el proyecto desde su dimensión comunitaria y su evolución temporal a partir de investigar sobre la noción de anarquitectura. Con esta finalidad, exploramos el término anarquitectura asociado al pensamiento de arquitectos y urbanistas anarquistas para contextualizar la tradición en la que Kroll y su proyecto se inscriben. Como cuerpo principal, analizamos cómo esta anarquitectura se ha traducido, con el tiempo, en las formas espaciales y procesos que conforman La Mémé. Para ello presentamos tres características resultantes: organicidad, implicación comunitaria e implementación técnica, cada una de ellas abordadas desde su concepción en el diseño, uso y sus posibilidades de transformación presente. Finalmente concluimos con los principales aprendizajes que nos brinda la anarquitectura de Kroll a partir de reflexiones que cuestionan o ponen en duda una comprensión simplificada de la idea de participación y su concepción espacial.
PALABRAS CLAVE: anarquitectura; anarquismo; control del usuario; diseño comunitario; vivienda colectiva; Lucien Kroll.
Research Interests: Architecture, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Architecture and politics, Sociology of Everyday Life, and 6 moreHistory of architecture, History and Theory of Modern Architecture, Community and Urban Design / Planning, History of Architecture and Town Planning, Participative Methods, and Architectural Design Process and Methodology
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Ciñéndose solo al mundo anglosajón, Hall afirmaba con rotundidad que muchos de los primeros ideales del movimiento urbanístico del siglo XX brotaron del movimiento anarquista que floreció en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y los... more
Ciñéndose solo al mundo anglosajón, Hall afirmaba con rotundidad que muchos de los primeros ideales del movimiento urbanístico del siglo XX brotaron del movimiento anarquista que floreció en las últimas décadas del siglo XIX y los primeros años del siglo XX. Eso ocurrió en el caso de Howard, en el de Geddes y la Regional Planning Association of America, así como en muchas de sus derivaciones europeas.
Hall afirmaba además que “las formas construidas de las ciudades deberían surgir (…) de la mano de los propios ciudadanos; que no sólo las grandes organizaciones, públicas o privadas, fueran las que construyeran sino que también habría que abrazar la noción de que la gente construya para sí misma. Podemos encontrar esta noción poderosamente presente en el pensamiento anarquista (…), y en particular en las nociones geddesianas de cirugía urbana rehabilitadora entre 1885 y 1920 (…). Reaparece como ideología fundamental e incluso dominante del planeamiento en las ciudades del Tercer Mundo a través del trabajo de John Turner –procedente él mismo del pensamiento anarquista– en Latinoamérica durante los años sesenta”
Hall afirmaba además que “las formas construidas de las ciudades deberían surgir (…) de la mano de los propios ciudadanos; que no sólo las grandes organizaciones, públicas o privadas, fueran las que construyeran sino que también habría que abrazar la noción de que la gente construya para sí misma. Podemos encontrar esta noción poderosamente presente en el pensamiento anarquista (…), y en particular en las nociones geddesianas de cirugía urbana rehabilitadora entre 1885 y 1920 (…). Reaparece como ideología fundamental e incluso dominante del planeamiento en las ciudades del Tercer Mundo a través del trabajo de John Turner –procedente él mismo del pensamiento anarquista– en Latinoamérica durante los años sesenta”
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Departing from Peter Hall's thesis in Cities of Tomorrow, the chapter deepens existing and reconstructs the missing parts in the historical continuity of one of the major under-presented influences on urban planning – the anarchist roots... more
Departing from Peter Hall's thesis in Cities of Tomorrow, the chapter deepens existing and reconstructs the missing parts in the historical continuity of one of the major under-presented influences on urban planning – the anarchist roots of the planning movement. Authors like Ward, Woodcock and Turner in Britain, and Doglio, Magnaghi and De Carlo in Italy constitute the thread recognizing the regionalist bridge from Kropotkin and Reclus to planners Geddes and Mumford. To showcase these connections, the chapter reviews recent research in geography and planning history on Reclus and Turner, using Patrick Geddes as the connection.
Reclus and Geddes, beyond rich personal links, share a conceptual foundation of several projects. Outlook tower and Valley section emerge from mutual interest in a river basin and idea of the city-region – making the city-nature fusion an ideal of regionalist planning as presented in The Evolution of Cities. Geddes, further, resides in John Turner's holistic diagrams, urban-regional surveys and references on aided self-help housing in Indore report in Turner's pioneering research of self-aided housing in Latin America with Eduardo Neira. The influence crystalizes into Turner's housing is a verb, the maxim implying tenure, shelter and location as key vectors of housing provision.
Reclus and Geddes, beyond rich personal links, share a conceptual foundation of several projects. Outlook tower and Valley section emerge from mutual interest in a river basin and idea of the city-region – making the city-nature fusion an ideal of regionalist planning as presented in The Evolution of Cities. Geddes, further, resides in John Turner's holistic diagrams, urban-regional surveys and references on aided self-help housing in Indore report in Turner's pioneering research of self-aided housing in Latin America with Eduardo Neira. The influence crystalizes into Turner's housing is a verb, the maxim implying tenure, shelter and location as key vectors of housing provision.
Research Interests: Geography, Urban Planning, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Architectural History, and 13 moreRegionalism, Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Urbanismo, History of Urban Planning, Giancarlo de Carlo, Élisée Reclus, Patrick Geddes, Elisée Reclus, Anarchist Geographies, Anarchist Geography, Architecture and Participation, Peter Hall, and J. FC Turner
Departing from Peter Hall's thesis in Cities of Tomorrow, the chapter deepens existing and reconstructs the missing parts in the historical continuity of one of the major under-presented influences on urban planning – the anarchist roots... more
Departing from Peter Hall's thesis in Cities of Tomorrow, the chapter deepens existing and reconstructs the missing parts in the historical continuity of one of the major under-presented influences on urban planning – the anarchist roots of the planning movement. Authors like Ward, Woodcock and Turner in Britain, and Doglio, Magnaghi and De Carlo in Italy constitute the thread recognizing the regionalist bridge from Kropotkin and Reclus to planners Geddes and Mumford. To showcase these connections, the chapter reviews recent research in geography and planning history on Reclus and Turner, using Patrick Geddes as the connection.
Reclus and Geddes, beyond rich personal links, share a conceptual foundation of several projects. Outlook tower and Valley section emerge from mutual interest in a river basin and idea of the city-region – making the city-nature fusion an ideal of regionalist planning as presented in The Evolution of Cities. Geddes, further, resides in John Turner's holistic diagrams, urban-regional surveys and references on aided self-help housing in Indore report in Turner's pioneering research of self-aided housing in Latin America with Eduardo Neira. The influence crystalizes into Turner's housing is a verb, the maxim implying tenure, shelter and location as key vectors of housing provision.
Reclus and Geddes, beyond rich personal links, share a conceptual foundation of several projects. Outlook tower and Valley section emerge from mutual interest in a river basin and idea of the city-region – making the city-nature fusion an ideal of regionalist planning as presented in The Evolution of Cities. Geddes, further, resides in John Turner's holistic diagrams, urban-regional surveys and references on aided self-help housing in Indore report in Turner's pioneering research of self-aided housing in Latin America with Eduardo Neira. The influence crystalizes into Turner's housing is a verb, the maxim implying tenure, shelter and location as key vectors of housing provision.
Research Interests: Geography, Urban Planning, Anarchism, Anarchist Studies, Architectural History, and 12 moreRegionalism, Ecological Urbanism, Urbanismo, History of Urban Planning, Giancarlo de Carlo, Élisée Reclus, Patrick Geddes, Elisée Reclus, Anarchist Geographies, Anarchist Geography, Peter Hall, and J. FC Turner
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Overall, In the thesis examines in-depth indications of the De-growth theory for urban planing, and draws spatial implications from that. The chosen case study is the city of Rotterdam; known for its growing harbour, and its top-down and... more
Overall, In the thesis examines in-depth indications of the De-growth theory for urban planing, and draws spatial implications from that. The chosen case study is the city of Rotterdam; known for its growing harbour, and its top-down and growth-based paradigm of urban development. The goal of the thesis to link economic and environmentally oriented theory to urban planing strategies, via researching possible transformation solutions, and optimizing them for specific locations.