Imagined cities are the same ones we live in every day. Nevertheless, there is a particular quality inherent to them; they are collectively generated by their citizens’ thoughts, memories and desires, and this fact leads to new ways of building a city and new calculations.
URBAN IMAGINARIES AROUND THE WORLD
Places around the world where Urban Imaginaries Research -developed from Armando Silva´s methodology – are important.
Cities, communities, and frontiers which belong to the second part of this research and creation.
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Imaginaries are not only abstract representations of a mental nature, but they are “incarnated” or “incorporated” in citizen objects that we find in public space and from which we can deduce social feelings such as fear, love, illusion or rage. These feelings can be archived as writings, images, sounds, art productions or texts of any other matter where the imaginary imposes its dominant value on the object itself. Hence every urban object not only has its utility function, but can receive an imaginary valuation that gives it another representational substance.
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Alliances for the Imagined Cities around the world Program
Local institutional alliances
