Hello Trebor and friends,
I'm Mila and I expect being with you in this work.
I would like to frame the town center as a working area,
like Arthur.
I'm deeply interested in relations and neighboorhood
created between 'oficial' inhabitants of the old center and the homeless people
who ocupy it pointing different ways of living - fragile and instable
forms, subversive use of the public equipaments, etc.
But once the focus is on the relations and
its complexity, I believe that the resulting graffic would not point
dots on the map, but blurred zones around dots on the map.
As written by Ignasi de Solá-Morales, when talking about
architecture's critical role, criticism today can undertake the production
of maps or descriptions wich, like topographical charts, reveal the complexity
of a territory...
And for the purpose or use of the SPMAP? we are going to
build, I'll talk trough the same author:
Criticism is thus not the recognition or manifestation
of branches but is itself a construct, purposefully produced to cast light on
that situation, as a means of drawing the topography of that point where a
certain architecture has been produced.
Sorry for my poor english and I hope my friends can
give me a helping hand when I have to write in
portuguese.