The space of vulnerability

Authors

  • Claudio Sgarbi Carleton University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5931

Keywords:

Hospitality, Conviviality, Nihilism, Technique, Vulnerability

Abstract

Archi-tecture has lost the reference to its prop “Archi” to develop mostly its “Tecture”: a deceitful form of nihilism, which has given full credit to a hurricane of instruments for which we know no purpose. Any distinction between city and architecture is purely contingent. Contingency is relevant but only in so far as it makes one lose any sense of scale. Many of our cities do not work because our style of life eradicates the sense of hospitality. The city becomes the place where we un-learn how to live together. Hospitality is vulnerability – the construction of vulnerability is the true beauty, the only deterrent against stupidity. Learn to live with the others, to approximate the alterity and its unpredictability. The basic tools of conviviality are the common goods of inter-disciplinarity. Learn to cultivate and educate yourself to phenomenal incompleteness.
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Published

2015-11-30

How to Cite

Sgarbi, C. (2015). The space of vulnerability. IN_BO. Ricerche E Progetti Per Il Territorio, La Città E l’architettura, 6(3). https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1602/5931

Issue

Vol. 6 No. 3 (2015): TEACHING AND MAKING ARCHITECTURE TODAY. A global inquiry, special issue

Section

Inquiry

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