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Chandigarh outskirts: trama urbana, identidad y utopía social. Una aproximación desde las artes visuales

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    Identifier: imarina:9327212
    Authors:
    Macaya A
    Abstract:
    The nature of urban framework is often significant about key aspects of a city’s social, historical or cultural character. The peripheral areas of a city can give us a glimpse of this nature as something in permanent construction or mutation. Interestingly enough, urban peripheries are drawing considerable attention in fields such as social studies, architecture and urban planning or visual arts. Chandigarh city, in India, provides us a case of study certainly interesting. Conceived by Le Cobusier and his team at the middle XXth century, it exemplifies the tension between planned city and non planned urban development. It exemplifies as well some key contemporary controversies about cultural identity, considered from perspectives such as social studies and urban planning. Chandigarh has also been the focus of interesting discussions from the postcolonial perspective: welcomed by many as an urban project with a strong social aim, others consider Le Corbusier experiment as an example of self-imposed foreign modernity. In this paper we will summarize a research conducted with a group of students and professors in the local university, in which visual arts were used to convey reflections about the significance and transformations of the Chandigarh periphery, in the Green Belt area. We will ground this project on the previous experience of many artists that have focused their work on city peripheries. The research will provide evidences in order to evaluate the significance and scope that the project had for the participants.
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    Author, as appears in the article.: Macaya A
    Department: Pedagogia
    URV's Author/s: Macaya Ruiz, Albert
    Keywords: Urban planning and identity Urban periphery Contemporary art Chandigarh
    Abstract: The nature of urban framework is often significant about key aspects of a city’s social, historical or cultural character. The peripheral areas of a city can give us a glimpse of this nature as something in permanent construction or mutation. Interestingly enough, urban peripheries are drawing considerable attention in fields such as social studies, architecture and urban planning or visual arts. Chandigarh city, in India, provides us a case of study certainly interesting. Conceived by Le Cobusier and his team at the middle XXth century, it exemplifies the tension between planned city and non planned urban development. It exemplifies as well some key contemporary controversies about cultural identity, considered from perspectives such as social studies and urban planning. Chandigarh has also been the focus of interesting discussions from the postcolonial perspective: welcomed by many as an urban project with a strong social aim, others consider Le Corbusier experiment as an example of self-imposed foreign modernity. In this paper we will summarize a research conducted with a group of students and professors in the local university, in which visual arts were used to convey reflections about the significance and transformations of the Chandigarh periphery, in the Green Belt area. We will ground this project on the previous experience of many artists that have focused their work on city peripheries. The research will provide evidences in order to evaluate the significance and scope that the project had for the participants.
    Thematic Areas: Visual arts and performing arts Urban studies Geography, planning and development Geografía Educação Ciencias humanas Bellas artes Arts Arte Architecture
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    Author's mail: albert.macaya@urv.cat
    Record's date: 2024-07-27
    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
    Link to the original source: https://revistes.ub.edu/index.php/waterfront/article/view/41965
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    Papper original source: On The Waterfront. The International On? Line Magazine On Waterfronts, Public Art, Urban Design And Civil Participation. 65 (2): 3-42
    APA: Macaya A (2023). Chandigarh outskirts: trama urbana, identidad y utopía social. Una aproximación desde las artes visuales. On The Waterfront. The International On? Line Magazine On Waterfronts, Public Art, Urban Design And Civil Participation, 65(2), 3-42. DOI: 10.1344/waterfront2023.65.02.01
    Article's DOI: 10.1344/waterfront2023.65.02.01
    Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
    Journal publication year: 2023
    Publication Type: Journal Publications
  • Keywords:

    Architecture,Geography, Planning and Development,Urban Studies,Visual Arts and Performing Arts
    Urban planning and identity
    Urban periphery
    Contemporary art
    Chandigarh
    Visual arts and performing arts
    Urban studies
    Geography, planning and development
    Geografía
    Educação
    Ciencias humanas
    Bellas artes
    Arts
    Arte
    Architecture
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