Conference Lecture
1 January 2012
Barcelona, TOURbanISM-toURBANISM
Anna Gulinska, third semester student in the current URBAN TECHNIQUE course is invited to give a lecture at the 6th Conference of International Forum on Urbanism TOURbanISM-toURBANISM that will take place from January 25th to 27th, 2012, at the Catalonian Politechnic University (UPC) in Barcelona.
Lecture title:
Animated Patterns, Tourism and the City
Projective Mapping Techniques directing to Strategies for Urban Revitalization
Keywords: tourism, identity, mapping techniques, urban tissue
Abstract: Despite the vast research in the field of revealing the cities´ hidden potentials, little is known about field research on alternative solutions of space mapping of heritage values and spatial identity. However, we believe that a conscious re-introduction of tourism and its infrastructure allow for providing strategic re-invention of space-defining mechanisms for urban structures.
The study presents initial findings of an ongoing investigation for bringing back the life to half-dead urban structures by unfolding its urban potential and re-inventing the idea of tourism. Thereby three different urban situations serve starting points for projective analyses, to elucidate the potential of distinct design solutions and urban interventions for found misfits; Dabrowa Gornicza (PL), Charleroi (BE) and Beirut (LB). With a focus on mappings of non-physical and physical parameters with a view of sustainable development and projective analyses, the studies investigate deformed, intricate city structures and structural patterns of behavior.
Various mapping techniques were chosen as the respective tools and projective challenges for not only defining the potentials of local identities, but also putting into questions its feasibility for defining strategies to improving spatial solutions for destroyed urban tissues.
As the study is part of a growing body of research on behavioral pattern that influence and deform the urban tissue, the presented conclusions navigate three different scales, cultures and strategies, varying from planning solutions to be conducted with city councils, abstract spatial augmentations in the scale of a city quarter, or dynamic representations as interactive models for a whole district.