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Local Mind
For an anthropology of dwelling
Foreword by Paul K. Feyerabend
Local mind is the ability common to all cultures and individuals to make sense of space, to create mental maps that allows humans to meaningfully live within space. It is a skill that we acquire, just like language, movement or music, which allows us to imagine and change the space we live in, to "use" it. Today, such continuous interaction between us and the environment is often reduced to mere consumption. And this in turn is further alienated by "experts of space": architects, politicians, bureaucrats. Though latent, the local mind is always ready to take advantage of any fissure of the bureaucratic system to reveal itself. It happened in Palermo with the "revolts of the courtyards", or in Terassini where fishermen project their space even across the Atlantic, "in other sea". But it is also an expression of the dreams of ubiquity we all today seem share.
Franco La Cecla, anthropologist and urban planner, has taught Cultural Anthropology in Berkeley, Paris, Venice, Bologna, and Milan.
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 Mon 20 Jul 2015 - Internazionale
MENTE LOCALE / IN ALTRO MARE |
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Sat 28 May 2011 - Il Tirreno
Facciamo mente locale e costruiamo i nostri spazi |
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Sun 24 Apr 2011 - Il tempo.it
Presentazioni con l'autore |
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Thu 14 Apr 2011 - TuttoMilano
Mente Locale e In altro mare |
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Thu 14 Apr 2011 - Repubblica Scaffale
Mente Locale e In altro mare |
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Wed 13 Apr 2011 - Vivimilano
Cultura |
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Fri 18 Mar 2011 - Il Foglio
L'incubo non solo giapponese di un medioevo prossimo venturo |
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Tue 16 Sep 2008 - Il Giornale dell'Umbria
L'architettura è un progetto inutile |
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Mente locale indice e nuova introduzione - pdf |
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