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Dario Graschinsky

ge.ch

http://estudioge.ch

Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dario Graschinsky is an architect, scholar, and urban designer. He is an assistant professor of urban design at Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he also co-directs Non-Doméstico, a research program supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. His ongoing research of gay cruising parks was exhibited at the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo. He holds the Francisco Bullrich Scholarship and has received the support of Fondo Nacional de las Artes.

Call for ideas 2021

TOWARD THE PARQUEER


A public arena for private affairs

TOWARD THE PARQUEER


A public arena for private affairs
Taking gay cruising as a case study, the research project looks for new applications of old techniques to live and desire on cities’ common spaces.
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  • 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


A public arena for private affairs

TOWARD THE PARQUEER


A public arena for private affairs
Taking gay cruising as a case study, the research project looks for new applications of old techniques to live and desire on cities’ common spaces.
File under
Type of project
  • 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.



Idea by

Dario Graschinsky
ge.ch
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Dario Graschinsky is an architect, scholar, and urban designer. He is an assistant professor of urban design at Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he also co-directs Non-Doméstico, a research program supported by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. His ongoing research of gay cruising parks was exhibited at the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo. He holds the Francisco Bullrich Scholarship and has received the support of Fondo Nacional de las Artes.