Karla BERRENS, UOC + UB, Spain
Blanca CALVO BOIXET, UOC, Spain
This paper will focus on the cases of La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille and 22@south in Barcelona. These urban spaces where once thought to be temporary and to stand at in-between urban developments, but with time, they have acquired a permanent status won by their imprint on the city dynamic.
In light of the pandemic situation we are living in from 2020, we will explore how these spaces have, once again adapted their proposal to suit the area’s social needs, both providing a space to bond for urban dwellers and to dynamise the area.
The paper will address a process that has gone from becoming deserted from a quasi-total shutdown of most services, to a stronger and more connected re-start, rebooting new urban dynamics, ephemeral and more pandemically adjusted. These two spaces are at the edge between socially oriented urban catering and a desire for a strong community connection. In this sense, the paper makes a contribution to ephemeral urbanism by presenting what we could describe as an interstitial urban practice, between temporality and establishment, like what fascia is to the body, a connecting mesh between very different structures that is key in their moving forward.
Mots clés : Ephemeral|temporality|community|urban practice|interstitial space
A105189kb