INHABITED MARKET
Monthly meetings
1/2
Date
1 September 2015
31 July 2016
Venue
Nave 17. Nave una
Category
Programme
Intermediae
Inhabited Market is a project set within the context of a city where consumption and visitation act as mechanisms of power. Tourism and leisure become the backbone of the city, bolstered by public policies. In view of this, we ask what sort of facilities and provisions are needed for the people in urban territories, focusing on alternative uses that are vying for the tangible and intangible resources being appropriated by gentrification.
Specifically, we focus on Farmers’ Markets, public spaces that are made available to merchants, with a view to the following aims:
● Exploring the links between the various strategic plans concerning traditional farmers’ markets
● Exploring the capability of merchants, residents and manufacturers to act as a framework for mutual experimentation and learning
● Connecting everyday market holding/living to a critical urban intervention
● Recouping the notion of the market as a space for co-existence and neighbourly exchange
Our laboratory is San Fernando Market in Lavapiés, where we aim to achieve three objectives by employing a set of participatory research/action methodologies: (i) promote debate on market and consumption models; (ii) pose management alternatives for a market as a public service; and (iii) assess the consistency or discrepancies between the way actions are portrayed and reality or real practice.
The project was presented on 1 July 2015 in the central square of San Fernando Market. The presentation was attended by a large number of people interested in participating in the project, and a process of construction of additional furniture for the Market’s common areas has already begun. The meetings, interviews and focus groups scheduled will start back up after the holiday break, taking place during the autumn.
For additional information, please write to oficina@urbanismosocial.org
Twitter: @Oficinaus
Facebook: Oficina de Urbanismo Social
INHABITED MARKET is a project led by the Department of Social Urbanism, undertaken as part of the One City, Many Worlds creation and research programme.
Specifically, we focus on Farmers’ Markets, public spaces that are made available to merchants, with a view to the following aims:
● Exploring the links between the various strategic plans concerning traditional farmers’ markets
● Exploring the capability of merchants, residents and manufacturers to act as a framework for mutual experimentation and learning
● Connecting everyday market holding/living to a critical urban intervention
● Recouping the notion of the market as a space for co-existence and neighbourly exchange
Our laboratory is San Fernando Market in Lavapiés, where we aim to achieve three objectives by employing a set of participatory research/action methodologies: (i) promote debate on market and consumption models; (ii) pose management alternatives for a market as a public service; and (iii) assess the consistency or discrepancies between the way actions are portrayed and reality or real practice.
The project was presented on 1 July 2015 in the central square of San Fernando Market. The presentation was attended by a large number of people interested in participating in the project, and a process of construction of additional furniture for the Market’s common areas has already begun. The meetings, interviews and focus groups scheduled will start back up after the holiday break, taking place during the autumn.
For additional information, please write to oficina@urbanismosocial.org
Twitter: @Oficinaus
Facebook: Oficina de Urbanismo Social
INHABITED MARKET is a project led by the Department of Social Urbanism, undertaken as part of the One City, Many Worlds creation and research programme.