People and Space: New Forms of Interaction in the City Project

Background. The therapeutic illusion of space.- 1. The crisis of aesthetics and the 'death of the landscape'.- 2. The aesthetic crisis as the crisis of the glance.- 3. Projectual intention and collective will.- 4. What we want, or the kitsch city and the city of conformism.- 5. Loss of the centre.- 6. The dialectic of recognition: places and attrition.- 7. The local-supralocal relationship.- 8. Connective intelligence and articulation of the concepts of identity and belonging.- 9. The relationship between individual subjects and collective subjects and the 'community of practice' concept.- 10. City project and structure-subjects.- 11. Dissolution of the dual city, or the new suburbanism.- 12. Changes in the communication model: from Jakobson to Lotman.- 13. Intermediate space as the space for effective communication.- 14. 'Mondialisation', globalisation, localisation.- 15. The border 'takes shape'.- 16. The city project: intermediate space and symbol.- 17. Project as social action: the art of moving the boundary of the body.- 18. The city as an intermediate world between global and local.- 19. The eye and the brain.- 20. Civitas alone can save the urbs.