Community Urban Transformation, Learning from the Cementerio Neighborhood of Alicante through the Asertos Program. Daniel Millor

Activity

The architect's desk 9

Library

General public, Professionals

25 May 2023

Daniel Millor Vela, community architect. Asertos Program, Quatorze Association and Architecture Without Borders. "Community urban transformation, learning from the Cemetery Neighborhood of Alicante through the Asertos program."

Through the Asertos program, since 2017 we have promoted local development in vulnerable neighborhoods, or sensitive urban spaces, starting from the local resources of the population that inhabits the territory. Space reflects and amplifies the inequalities of our society, resulting in the urban phenomenon of vulnerability. To combat it, we need to recover our communities, sources of health, well-being, and social action. We propose, as a means to increase inclusion and social cohesion, a participatory transformation of degraded neighborhoods led by their inhabitants, using the excuse of physical improvement as a tool to discover, connect, and mobilize the talents present in these areas.

To precipitate sustainable and satisfactory change through the relational power of inhabitants, projecting an innovative action strategy that looks toward a dignified, democratic, and non-paternalistic future at the neighborhood scale. Starting from neighborhood networks as a primary source of resources, we will work with social entities and public institutions to achieve dynamics of exchange and learning led by citizens, achieving community urban regeneration.

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Opening hours: 7:00 PM
Duration: 90 minutes
Type of activity: Design and Architecture
Modality: At the museum

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The architecture table

General public ... , 29.01.2015 - 17.12.2026

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante whose collections are formed by works created fundamentally in the twentieth century. They range from the so-called avant-gardes to all the approaches and artistic manifestations that took place in the decades of the second half of the past century. They are expressed on different supports and materials, with diverse dimensions and techniques. In turn, the temporary exhibitions are related to these collections and allow for expanding or deepening some aspects of contemporary chronology. However, contemporary architecture is absent from both the permanent collections and those temporary manifestations.The architecture of the MACA itself, a project created and directed by the Sancho Madridejos Studio, is a beautiful building of great functional efficiency. The syncopated projection of horizontal and vertical spaces establishes a formal order based on the geometry and texture of the materials used in construction, while revealing a kind of tension resolved by the overhead passage of light, a kind of "felt" spirituality more emotional than real.The MACA proposes in a conversational format, meetings around art and architecture around the architect's table. In the MACA Library, the last Thursdays of each month, from January to May 2015.This first cycle will consist of different manifestations. The first and fundamental one will show works by an architect related through his vital and professional activity to the province of Alicante. The selection criterion will be conditioned by the modernity of the proposals, understanding that modernity, first of all, in a chronological sense, attending to those architectures and architects who were protagonists and participants in the advent of contemporaneity. The exhibition of some models will allow for offering three-dimensional models, reclaiming the model as such, as the authors of the Renaissance defended. And to illustrate the complete work process, sketches and preliminary drawings will be shown alongside the project plans and notes developed during the construction process. All of this with the ultimate aim of understanding and grasping in some way the constructed space.The architect's table, a table from 1912, real and present (deposited in the MACA by its owner Alfonso Navarro Guzmán), serves as an ideological foundation to link the exhibitions and will serve as the material support for the models so that we can traverse, while dreaming, the imagined space.

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