Open AccessThis is My City
Author(s) -
Leonardo Parra-Agudelo
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of public space
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2206-9658
DOI - 10.5204/jps.v1i1.16
Subject(s) - situated , graffiti , public space , capital (architecture) , psychological intervention , space (punctuation) , middle class , sociology , geography , political science , gender studies , visual arts , medicine , art , archaeology , law , engineering , nursing , architectural engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , linguistics , philosophy
For this issue, I was asked to provide a viewpoint on the experience of public space as someone that has been involved in graffiti and street art for more than ten years. My involvement with these two forms of street interventions, that for outsiders co-exist and for insiders collide, is mostly situated in Bogota, Colombia. The living conditions of the inhabitants of the capital city of a country embedded in more than fifty years of internal violence were, and still are, precarious for many but not so much for me. I was raised in a middle class home and was well taken care of