RESEARCH JOURNEY CONCEPT:
HETEROTYPOLOGY OF NON-PLACES IN POST-IMPERIAL CITIES
HETEROTYPOLOGY OF NON-PLACES IN POST-IMPERIAL CITIES
The research journey starts in the middle of July and lasts about 50 days (10 days for each place). The target cities are: Moscow, Hong Kong, Cape Town, Buenos Aires and New Orleans – important centers of the old empires, recognized as the paradigm of the city of future.
The main aim of the project is a redefinition of two important concepts: heterotopia (Michael Foucault) and non-place (Marc Agué), and study of correlation in context of the cities of future.
I want to use these abstract concepts as metaphors and meaningful symbols. The can be also a useful instrument, which might provide us a fresh knowledge about the modern cities as non-places are a source of information about our past and future.
Non-places are relevant now more than ever, as they gradually take over new areas of a city space, especially metropoles. A research of heterotopian non-places in multicultural metropoles allows us to know better the identity of a modern society.
The main aim is then a methodical description including studies and analysis of heterotopology of non-places in a given city, a space we live in that is as mythical as it is real.
