Open AccessFrom sidewalk ballet to defending the city
Author(s) -
Maria del Carmen Mota Utanda
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of public space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2206-9658
DOI - 10.32891/jps.v3i2.1111
Subject(s) - public space , space (punctuation) , political science , ideal (ethics) , ballet , sociology , crowding , political economy , law , engineering , visual arts , art , dance , architectural engineering , philosophy , neuroscience , biology , linguistics
The city is primarily a public space as it is both a condition and an expression of its citizens. It is the environment where citizens can and should feel as such: free, equal and different. It is where society is performed, where it represents itself and is shown as a community that cohabitates and shows its contradictions, disputes and differences. The city is where collective memory is created and where all the different identities emerge. For this reason, this is the ideal location for Humanae. The faces of thousands of citizens crowding halls and museums to conquer the squares. From the streets of a marginalized neighborhood in Málaga - Spain, or the Rotary Praça in São Paulo - Brazil, to a building at United Nations Habitat III and the entrance of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Humanae uses public space to involve citizens from all over the planet in a global dialogue.