> y se visibiliza en las nuevas edificaciones de diseño, hasta la sutil producción de subjetividades que se evidencia en la superposición de tres imaginarios: el barrio industrial y la memoria obrera; el barrio artístico de los talleres artesanales y un nuevo imaginario audiovisual-tecnológico que demanda el desplazamiento de los talleres y manufacturas. Para intentar dilucidar esta tensión entre la mirada a lo global y la mirada a lo cotidiano propongo el recorrido desde dos metáforas que desvelan dos perspectivas de la ciudad:
1.- Cartografías de la mirada cenital: es la figuración del ideal de verdad absoluta y de pretendida universalidad cuando intenta abarcar el territorio en conjunto y simular un mundo a escala, desconfiando de las prácticas cotidianas, subjetivas y plurales. Este espacio sedimenta en el proyecto 22@ de Poble Nou y se recorre a través de cuatro hitos: a.) el ojo divino, b.) la promesa de los dispositivos visuales, c.) miradas-otro y espacios subalternos y d.) las cartografías racionales.
2.- Escenario de la mirada impura: con esta metáfora provocadora problematizo la idea de pureza que subyace a la pretensión de verdad que pretende datos descontaminados de los sentidos, para proponer la impureza como implicación de nuestro cuerpo en la comprensión del mundo desde un pensamiento mestizo, experiencial, imaginario y afectivo. Desde aquí propongo un giro al modelo cenital de enunciar los espacios urbanos para pensar en los sujetos al ras del suelo. Este escenario se recorre a través de los siguientes hitos: a.) lugares de la mirada, b.) cartografías contrahegemónicas, c.) la ciudad es una forma y d.) política de la experiencia estética.
Estas dos perspectivas son retratadas a través de las reflexiones de mis experiencias y derivas por las calles de Poble Nou, donde los objetos urbanos motivan las interpretaciones de un barrio en acelerada transformación urbanística frente a la potencia transformadora de sus habitantes.
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In this research, where the city is a pretext, I'm interested to claim subjectivity and experience in the production and interpretation of urban spaces through an exercise of situated knowledge. The subject it's me; in wanderings through the streets of Poble Nou's neighbourhood in Barcelona, leaving me by my senses and perceptions.
I suggest not only a nomadic practice but a nomadic epistemology because wandering proposes the nonconformity with the hegemonic and dominant centrality. This nomadic subjectivity offers a preferential position to images, metaphors and aesthetics as forms that propose social senses beyond the limits of grammatical constructions.
Through the visual turn, I try to make problematic the city from its visible objects, instead of thinking it as just a geographical place; in other words, I intend to propose the city as a possible space where the objects are presented to our views while they are crossed by our experiences. By another hand, visual turn also reveals how the mechanisms of power creates performance meanings that are not in the frame of discursive construction, but circulates in our ordinary live under the shades of global image.
In my comprehension to Poble Nou, the images are process that circulates in a macro and micro-political level: from the global image-model where the city is presented under the slogan of <> that shows us in the new design architectures, to the production of subjectivities that evidence juxtaposition of three imaginaries: industrial neighbourhood and its working memory; artistic neighbourhood of the craft workshops, and a new audiovisual-technological imaginary that demands the displacement of the workshops and manufactures.
To clarify the tension among the global power and practices of every day life I propose a trip through two metaphors that also figures two perspectives to the city:
1.- Zenithal view cartographies: is the figuration of the truly absolute ideal and supposed universality of the knowledge that pretends to cover the territory simulating a world to scale, distrusting the plural, subjective and routine practices in the cities. This space is portrayed by the Poble Nou/22@ project and crosses by four points: a.) the divine eye, b.) the promise of the visual devices, c.) subordinates spaces and d.) rational cartographies.
2.- Impure view setting: this provocative metaphor makes problematic the purity that underlies scientific pretension and proposes impurity as implication of our body in the comprehension of the world from a <>, imaginary and emotional though. In this way, I suggest a turn to the zenithal model for the purpose of enunciate Poble Nou from my own subjective practices at the level of the floor. This setting is framed by four coordinates: a.) places of the look, b.) contra-hegemonic cartography, c.) city as a form, and d.) political of aesthetic experience.
In both perspectives urban objects motivate the interpretations of a gentrificated neighbourhood in a quickly urban transformation, in front of the political potency of their inhabitants.