Vale todo? Forms, performances and realms of cuentapropismo in Havana

Master thesis (2014)

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T. Avermaete (mentor)
Programme
Explorelab 18 (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2014 Schiavone, M.
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16-12-2014

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Programme

Explorelab 18

Abstract

The recent implementation of Cuban most ambitious plan for economic transformation since the Revolution of 1959, whether considered as a transitional phase towards capitalism - from an evolutionist, mainly 'yankee', perspective - or as a 'new stage of the Revolution' capable to reinvigorate the Antillean socialism, arouse great resonance both on international media and between scholars worldwide. Several analysis focused on Raúl Castro's plan of actualizacion del modelo economico from a political and economical perspective. The aim of the graduation research has been to tackle this topic with the apparatus of our discipline, Architecture, in order to understand and unveil its spatial, urban, built and discoursive implications.