Idea by
Dario Graschinsky
ge.ch
Call for ideas 2021
TOWARD THE PARQUEER
TOWARD THE PARQUEER
- New alliances
Sculptures, organicist metaphors, and other scenographic effects are deployed all over an urban park plan: a technocratic device to build both material and immaterial aspects of public space. Disguise into esthetic principles, experiences of urban beautification became a still-functioning technology to regulate how, where, and between whom human relationships are developed. Is the public designing the park, or in fact, the park is designing the public through representations of expected habits. But as a dialectical conflict, every practice of order entails practices of the disorder. The public localization of improper pleasures, such as cruising, involves an —often hidden, rarely visible— form of activism as they claim for its inclusion in the public realm. To these daily and silent actions, we committed Parqueer: an ideal medium for the emergence of different “natures” of resistance.
TOWARD THE PARQUEER
TOWARD THE PARQUEER
- New alliances
Sculptures, organicist metaphors, and other scenographic effects are deployed all over an urban park plan: a technocratic device to build both material and immaterial aspects of public space. Disguise into esthetic principles, experiences of urban beautification became a still-functioning technology to regulate how, where, and between whom human relationships are developed. Is the public designing the park, or in fact, the park is designing the public through representations of expected habits. But as a dialectical conflict, every practice of order entails practices of the disorder. The public localization of improper pleasures, such as cruising, involves an —often hidden, rarely visible— form of activism as they claim for its inclusion in the public realm. To these daily and silent actions, we committed Parqueer: an ideal medium for the emergence of different “natures” of resistance.