[PDF] Un mar de historias: Picasso (Spanish Edition) by Jenn Diacute;az in Arts-Photography

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As with so many facets of contemporary western life; architecture and space are often experienced and understood as a commodity or product. The premise of this book is to offer alternatives to the practices and values of such westernised space and Architecture (with a capital A); by exploring the participatory and grass-roots practices used in alternative development models in the Global South. This process re-contextualises the spaces; values; and relationships produced by such alternative methods of development and social agency. It asks whether such spatial practices provide concrete realisations of some key concepts of Western spatial theory; questioning whether we might challenge the space and architectures of capitalist development by learning from the places and practices of others.Exploring these themes offers a critical examination of alternative development practices methods in the Global South; re-contextualising them as architectural engagements with socio-political space. The comparison of such interdisciplinary contexts and discourses reveals the political; social; and economic resonances inherent between these previously unconnected spatial protagonists. The interdependence of spatial issues of choice; value; and identity are revealed through a comparative study of the discourses of Henri Lefebvre; John Turner; Doreen Massey; and Nabeel Hamdi. These key protagonists offer a critical framework of discourses from which further connections to socio-spatial discourses and concepts are made; including post-marxist theory; orientalism; post-structural pluralism; development anthropology; post-colonial theory; hybridity; difference and subalterneity.By looking to the spaces and practices of alternative development in the Global South this book offers a critical reflection upon the working practices of Westernised architecture and other spatial and political practices. In exploring the methodologies; implications and values of such participatory development practices this book ultimately seeks to articulate the positive potential and political of learning from the difference; multiplicity; and otherness of development practice in order to re-imagine architecture and space. .