"Cities are a set of many things: memory, desires, signs of a language, cities are places of exchange, but not only trade in goods, but the exchange of words, desires, memories. "
" Cities invisible "Italo Calvino
curiosity and enthusiasm but also doubts and fears in front of that gate, the entrance to a parallel city unknown to us, in that town that seemed so hostile. 'Experience that leaves its mark, that makes you think as it happens and that, again with the mind to savor the emotions.
participation, organization, sharing, adaptation, respect, solidarity and cooperation are the key words of the workshop, the 'architecture for a time he abandoned his formal and technical aspect has acquired new meanings.
I went on tiptoe in that town, with fear of relating, amalgamate with people with whom I have rarely interacted. I did not understand what my role was to be there, what they do and what I could do best to achieve good results at school, but it was enough to get that container of new realities, needs, desires, habits and my thinking is at once changed.
I rolled up our sleeves and started to make my contribution. For them. That place in no time I was kidnapped, captured. We all worked together for a purpose, a school, a classroom game, the union was really the strength and the "difference" between us and them began to disappear. The intent was to produce as much as possible, do not waste, to make everything useful to permit those children not to play more in the mud and to offer them a place to learn. The right end, if you think about a community that will hopefully one day, can be integrated with the other city outside the walls. However, living this experience back and seeing how much these people have skills in living, rather, to survive, I wonder: "We students were really there to build those essential places? It is really what the real goal that we wanted and we achieved? "I think that week in the benchmark is to be changed ... to be built to share! This is the most intense memories that I leave this experience, new places and forms of sharing that hopefully have a future in that community, they are a starting point not only to improve interpersonal relationships but also their city and their way of life.
thrilled to have had the opportunity to "touch" architecture, that he was part of a process of appropriation of new spaces and the transformation of the same, I conclude with a quote from "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino I think sums up this experience:
"... of a city do not enjoy the seven or seventy wonders, but the answer it gives to your question."
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