‘Trans-Borderlands: Activating the Plasticity of Urban Border Space’
Trans 18: Politics
Within the contemporary city and contemporary global context (more specifically in what we have termed the Global South) there exists a network of restrictive borders, a network of limiting mechanisms generated by physical, geographical, political, social, cultural, and economic difference. These apparatus manifest themselves in various ways to inhibit essential forms of interaction and communication within the urban context by generating privative difference. But this milieu of restrictive edges also presents a valuable opportunity, one in which new forms of social design and communication are made possible. These borderlands introduce the possibility of manipulating their inherent, yet conventionally ignored, flexibility into new spaces of interaction. Social design can be strengthened through this critical engagement with the plasticity of the edge – by unearthing the territory of Border-Space.
Title | Trans 18: Politics |
Authors | Alfredo Brillembourg, Hubert Klumpner, Michael Contento & Lindsey Sherman |
Release | February 2011 |
Editors | Siham Balutsch, Kevin Dröscher, Michel Frei, Michael Pfister |
Publisher | gta Verlag (ETH Zürich) |
Pages | 170 |