Não-lugar : um olhar sobre as metrópoles contemporâneas

Abstract

Contemporary society can be characterized, among other aspects, by its transmutation, speed and excess, being deconstructed and reconstructed all the time. It is also in this scenario that many concepts or conceptual notions from several areas are challenged. In Architecture but not limited to it attempts to theorize about the attributes related to the idea of places are recurrent as well as its potential implications for human relations. According to the French anthropologist Marc Augé, places can be defined as identitarian, relational and historical: if one of these attributes is weakened, non-places are configured. In order to encompass the nature of this phenomenon and to understand how the versatility of the contemporary world collaborates to the production and reproduction of non-places, is resorted here, an inter, trans and multidisciplinary approach: Geography, Anthropology, History, Psychology, Architecture and Cinema are summed up in order to create an investigative and scientific panorama academically legitimate. For this purpose, instead of opting for a simple architectural design analysis what would be more expected is assumed, in conformity with the plurality of contemporary metropolis itself, a polyhedric focus and a more essayistic feature.