Controlled geographies

« Just as none of us is beyond geography, none of us is completely free from the struggle over geography. »

- Saïd, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage, 1994.

The place one’s born is the note of heritage, genesis that will stay with us forever. It creates spatial frames in the heads unless we get out and see what is around. Locational discimination is reality. Exteriours represent things we disere, need or just promoted to, exteiors are the everyday banality.

I will compare fully controlled environment of Jefferson’s grid and Non-stop city that frees us with its blankness, featurelessness, alowing us to be anyone anywhere.

jefferson grid suburbia

 

non stop. Superstudio

 

Both are about geography that forms the place. In the fist one it is an island, the second one the ongoing reality. Today we are witnessing the extrapolation of the first/real mode; actually it might be always the first (?) We are building more and more walls, separating, creating archipelagos of controlled realities. Controlled Spatial Justice.

 

But geography and landscape has the power over our imagination.

 

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