Oldenburg (1989) suggests that for a Health existence, citizens must live in a balance of three realms: home life, the work place, and the inclusively sociable place (the french "rendez vous"). A kind of "Third Place"- where people can gather and put aside the concernes of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasure of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and thr grassroth of democracy. This concept can be extended and filled with deeper objectives, aimed at single or shared "laic meditation", but more widely toward the spiritual dimension, to compensate for the alienation fostered (especially in young people, for example) by the white nights and the happy hour or situations of stress and conflict. We must therefore return again to reflect, to find ourselves and others. For these spaces, the visual characters may confirm - metaphorically - the trend that from history (Candy, 2011 and 2012) evoke and actualize the use of mirrors and reflective surfaces, in the art (Zeky, 2007) and in architecture: from Jan van Heik Escher and Pistoletto, to English Mark's House (study Two Islands) or Mirror Houses in Bolzano (Peter Pitchler), or the Marseille Vieux Port (Foster) until Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree in California (of Pillip K. Smith III). Methodologically, the contribution will start from a careful and systematic review of studies, including theoretical and traditional, to arrive at examples and design experiments, visual in nature.

Reflect! Visual communication for a new social "third space" / Marotta, Anna; Netti, Rossana. - ELETTRONICO. - 1:(2016), pp. 1026-1036. (Intervento presentato al convegno XIV Forum Internazionale di Studi "Le vie dei Mercanti" tenutosi a Napoli - Capri nel 16/18 Giugno 2016).

Reflect! Visual communication for a new social "third space"

MAROTTA, Anna;NETTI, ROSSANA
2016

Abstract

Oldenburg (1989) suggests that for a Health existence, citizens must live in a balance of three realms: home life, the work place, and the inclusively sociable place (the french "rendez vous"). A kind of "Third Place"- where people can gather and put aside the concernes of work and home, and hang out simply for the pleasure of good company and lively conversation - are the heart of a community's social vitality and thr grassroth of democracy. This concept can be extended and filled with deeper objectives, aimed at single or shared "laic meditation", but more widely toward the spiritual dimension, to compensate for the alienation fostered (especially in young people, for example) by the white nights and the happy hour or situations of stress and conflict. We must therefore return again to reflect, to find ourselves and others. For these spaces, the visual characters may confirm - metaphorically - the trend that from history (Candy, 2011 and 2012) evoke and actualize the use of mirrors and reflective surfaces, in the art (Zeky, 2007) and in architecture: from Jan van Heik Escher and Pistoletto, to English Mark's House (study Two Islands) or Mirror Houses in Bolzano (Peter Pitchler), or the Marseille Vieux Port (Foster) until Lucid Stead in Joshua Tree in California (of Pillip K. Smith III). Methodologically, the contribution will start from a careful and systematic review of studies, including theoretical and traditional, to arrive at examples and design experiments, visual in nature.
2016
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