Image, imaginary and public art
Armando Silva
Colombia
The relationship between public art and urban imaginaries becomes explicit as the field of contemporary image becomes more complex and diverse. Urban imaginaries do not correspond to the image of the city, as in the classic studies of Kevin Lynch; in our approach we conceive it from that subjective one born from the citizens, the imagined one. This imagined image is from the field of imaginaries and that is why in our research I do not speak of the imaginary of the city, but of urban imaginaries. What I have proposed is a citizen urbanism that I will deal with in this conference.
The development of public art has allowed me to clarify several relationships with urban imaginaries, in which the citizens of the cities intervene the city, from desires and future longings or rage or revenge against the real, so it is from these scales of affections that we inhabit the physical cities: the imagined city precedes the real city in its uses and then it will be possible to propose how imaginaries are another part of the public space.
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