Both the “Social Outbreak” declaredArchitecture on October 18, 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemicDevices recognizedCrisis by the StateState on March 18, 2020 constitute a clear expression of a crisisCrisis process associated with a high level of political, economic, social, and cultural uncertainty, which exposes the precariousness associated with the dichotomous conception of public–private spatiality sustained by neoliberal urbanismNeoliberal Urbanism through its various production dispositivesDevices. However, within the framework of this crisisCrisis, it is also possible to observe the revaluation of a third form of spatiality, which are common spacesCommon spaces. Understood as those spacesSpace that inhabitants configure from shared resources present in their ways of livingWays of living, these do not necessarily arise from pre-existing communities or rationally predefined projects but emerge from the various daily practices of living and the conflictsConflicts, negotiations, and agreements generated by the inhabitants in their own territories. This article analyzes the relevance that architectureArchitecture has in making visible the production of “common spacesCommon spaces” by the inhabitants, becoming a fundamental component of the “exit dispositivesDevices” in the context of crisisCrisis.

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Exploring Architecture as an Exit Dispositive in Times of Crisis

  • Carlos Lange Valdes

摘要

Both the “Social Outbreak” declaredArchitecture on October 18, 2019 and the COVID-19 pandemicDevices recognizedCrisis by the StateState on March 18, 2020 constitute a clear expression of a crisisCrisis process associated with a high level of political, economic, social, and cultural uncertainty, which exposes the precariousness associated with the dichotomous conception of public–private spatiality sustained by neoliberal urbanismNeoliberal Urbanism through its various production dispositivesDevices. However, within the framework of this crisisCrisis, it is also possible to observe the revaluation of a third form of spatiality, which are common spacesCommon spaces. Understood as those spacesSpace that inhabitants configure from shared resources present in their ways of livingWays of living, these do not necessarily arise from pre-existing communities or rationally predefined projects but emerge from the various daily practices of living and the conflictsConflicts, negotiations, and agreements generated by the inhabitants in their own territories. This article analyzes the relevance that architectureArchitecture has in making visible the production of “common spacesCommon spaces” by the inhabitants, becoming a fundamental component of the “exit dispositivesDevices” in the context of crisisCrisis.