Idea by
Francesca Serrazanetti
Call for ideas 2016
Cultural Spaces as social Condensers
Cultural Spaces as social Condensers
Due to crisis, the social role of cultural spaces is emerging with strength. Cultural spaces (like libraries and theatres) in recent years are becoming social condensers: they are not discriminating, they are free and they offer free services like laboratories, books, presentations and access to the web, to the weakest bracket of the population. Social inclusion passes through cultural inclusion. And both of them pass through architecture. Architecture has a central role in this process and is shaping itself on these new necessities, basing on various criteria common to all the European countries.
Starting from these premises, 10 European architectural practices active in the field of cultural spaces as places of inclusion are invited to present an abacus of 5 ingredients of their architectural process. The final result is an atlas of key actions and images for a new cultural inclusive architecture, able to respond to social needs of a wide community in an era of crisis.
Cultural Spaces as social Condensers
Cultural Spaces as social Condensers
Due to crisis, the social role of cultural spaces is emerging with strength. Cultural spaces (like libraries and theatres) in recent years are becoming social condensers: they are not discriminating, they are free and they offer free services like laboratories, books, presentations and access to the web, to the weakest bracket of the population. Social inclusion passes through cultural inclusion. And both of them pass through architecture. Architecture has a central role in this process and is shaping itself on these new necessities, basing on various criteria common to all the European countries.
Starting from these premises, 10 European architectural practices active in the field of cultural spaces as places of inclusion are invited to present an abacus of 5 ingredients of their architectural process. The final result is an atlas of key actions and images for a new cultural inclusive architecture, able to respond to social needs of a wide community in an era of crisis.