Metropolitan
Performing Urban Space
Isabella Pasqualini

In this essay, the Swiss researcher and architect Isabella Pasqualini looks at urban areas in search of her own space, where technology finds the subjectivity it needs to generate new objectivities. This intellectual and sensorial, individual and gregarious, real and virtual experience is part of the genealogy of geographic utopias, cultural mythologies and imaginary architectures of people who have designed ideal cities. Seen in this mobile, mutable light, the urban space turns into a stage for successive and simultaneous performances, a place of continuous creation that creates those who create it. This is why the people that live it are truly those who live in it.