Scene. Publicity and ritual in the space of a post-Soviet city
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How easily a person reads the coherence of its individual elements in the urban landscape and imagines a kind of holistic and meaningful picture of the place. What makes this reading of meaning more convenient and organic? What creates the prerequisites for this in the organization of the urban environment? Utekhin’s essay represents a successful attempt at reflection on the nature and moving boundaries of public space: “Although we call these places public, everywhere in them the public and the private are not separated - in the sense that in square, friends standing in a circle form a completely private spatial configuration with their conversation and arrangement. Once in a public place, people often “camp”, sitting down to go about their business in this temporarily occupied territory. Having laid out their things and thereby marking this temporary “mine,” they do not expect strangers at their table, move away from their neighbor on the bench, and before “landing,” they ask the person already sitting next to him if he minds.”
Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Илья Утехин Владимирович
- Language
- Russian