Informal Networks
Embracing Otherness through Performative Spaces
E.D. Gołębiewska (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
J.A. Mejia Hernandez – Mentor (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
Alberto Altes Arlandis – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
P.H.M. Jennen – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Design of Constrution)
K. Havik – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Situated Architecture)
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Abstract
Informal actors possess a practical knowledge of the city, a sort of ‘secret know-how’, of how to move and operate in an environment that is unwelcoming to them. How could this knowledge be used as a tool or input of urban design? By considering the knowledge and ways of operating of the informal actors in a city, the project incorporates the elements observed in the interaction between informal actors and city infrastructure into the finished, non-prescriptive and multi-functional city interventions. By incorporating that knowledge, the project aims to create spaces of increased number of opportunities and affordances, and as such, to give voice to the informal, marginalized actors in the city, that are often dismissed and excluded.