The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)

《The joint contribution of grassroots artistic practices to the alternative and vital city. The case of Bologna and Venice (Italy)》

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作者: Valeria Morea;Francesca Sabatini

来源: CITIES,Vol.135,Issue1,Article 104234

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Iuav, Department of Architecture & Arts, Santa Croce 1957, 30135 Venezia, Italy;Erasmus University, Erasmus School of History Culture and Communication, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, Department of Architecture, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy;Iuav, Department of Architecture & Arts, Santa Croce 1957, 30135 Venezia, Italy;Erasmus University, Erasmus School of History Culture and Communication, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, Department of Architecture, Viale del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy;PSB Paris School of Business, 59 Rue Nationale, 75013, Paris, France;Department of Humanities, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy;Department of Architecture and Arts, Iuav University of Venice, Italy;Department of Legal Studies, University of Bologna, Italy;IRCrES-CNR, Milan, Italy;Faculty of Economics and Law, Kore University of Enna, Italy;Department of Economics and Management, University of Padua, Italy;Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry, University of Padua, Italy;Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo, Italy;Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 551 North Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01003-2901, USA;USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Suite 350, 5523 Research Park Drive, Baltimore, MD 21228, USA;Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 160 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9285, USA;Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Health Policy and Management (ESHPM), Burgemeester Oudlaan 50, 3062, PA, Rotterdam, the Netherlands;Athena Institute, Faculty of Science, Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands;Emeritus professor of Land Use Planning at Wageningen University & Research, the Netherlands

摘要: The article explores grassroots artistic practices as stances of vital urbanism, intended as the urban dynamics activated from below and from outside established institutions that make a city lively thanks to the heterogenous, adaptive, and ultimately transformative initiatives of its citizens, especially when aggregated in the form of organised associations. Specifically, it focuses on how and why grassroots cultural organisation contribute to the vitality of their city. The research analyses the grassroots cultural milieux of two Italian cities, Bologna and Venice. Despite the local specificities, a thematic analysis has developed themes coherent across the two cases. They are: (1) political conflict; (2) imagining the alternative city; (3) making the alternative city; and finally (4) a discourse about the cultural economy. Ultimately, the findings illustrate how their visions and motivations shape a collective imagery of an alternative city and that their ideals and actions aim not just to keeping the city alive, but to let it evolve and develop.