Realities of the city

Public Space 2.0 - Experiments in virtual spaces in architecture

Space is "designed to expand the scope and depth of our experiences. That is its sole purpose, its only function. If one needed to give a reason to skeptics for creating such experimental spaces in the context of this large urban development project, it would be this: our rapidly changing world constantly confronts us with new challenges to our abilities to understand and to act, encouraging us to encounter new dimensions of experience." LEBBEUS WOODS (1940-2012)

Public space is a place of reflection for our collective memory, a place for myths and impressions, tangible or intangible, physical or metaphorical. An almost residual connecting space between volumes built within the walls, public space has evolved from a place of ad-hoc gatherings for the inhabitants of the city, to the space of meetings and revolutions, to a space filled with non-verbal communication with posters pasted on billboards, media screens and spontaneous interventions in the form of ^tags1 and graffiti. Today's mobile technology allows us to experiment and introduce a hitherto non-existent layer of information into a public space. A layer that can give new connotations to a space or has the capacity to reactivate lost memories and myths in the context of public space.