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A Critical Rhetoric for Urban Innovation: Art Staging the Civic

A Critical Rhetoric for Urban Innovation: Art Staging the Civic

Mário Caeiro
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781522506669|ISBN10: 1522506667|EISBN13: 9781522506676
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0666-9.ch005
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Caeiro, Mário. "A Critical Rhetoric for Urban Innovation: Art Staging the Civic." Design Innovations for Contemporary Interiors and Civic Art, edited by Luciano Crespi, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 102-124. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0666-9.ch005

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Caeiro, M. (2017). A Critical Rhetoric for Urban Innovation: Art Staging the Civic. In L. Crespi (Ed.), Design Innovations for Contemporary Interiors and Civic Art (pp. 102-124). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0666-9.ch005

Chicago

Caeiro, Mário. "A Critical Rhetoric for Urban Innovation: Art Staging the Civic." In Design Innovations for Contemporary Interiors and Civic Art, edited by Luciano Crespi, 102-124. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0666-9.ch005

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Abstract

The chapter presents a conceptual and pragmatic mindset, framing a critical positioning concerning activities such as curating artistic projects in public space, programming cultural events and designing habitats. It develops a specific jargon, crucial for a truly Contemporary understanding of the city: a total rhetoric of the urban form. Many different experiments in art are fueling the emergence of a new sensibility, showing how ‘parts of the city' can become possibilities, thus spaces with a great potential for both a strategic and critically engaged change. In a peculiar rhetorical balance - an ethos of attentive and open curiosity, a logos of ongoing urban-based research and production of ideas and finally a pathos of witty sharing of information and knowledge, some artistic installations and urban projects are a valid laboratory for creative citizenship. Through the analysis of a few cases, I argue that art is a tekne sensitive to discrete elements of the city, leading these to become the building blocks of urban life and creativity.

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