Las políticas urbanas continúan incasablemente
en su afán de atraer más y más gente a la ciudad (en el 2050 las ciudades
absorberán más de la mitad de la población mundial), para luego echarla sin
contemplaciones con la excusa de cumplir una ley de principios del siglo pasado
que solo beneficia a una pequeña parte de la sociedad: los banqueros y sus
juntas de accionistas.
Democracia: justicia,
igualdad y libertad solo para quienes pueden pagarla.
En esta intervención tomamos
prestadas varias imágenes de “Procesos de urbanización insostenibles siguiendo estrategias involutivas” para modificarlas de tal manera que
nos permitan realizar pequeñas maquetas de espacios urbanos a los que parece
faltarles “el aire”, el espacio, y a muchas de cuyas fachadas se las ha marcado
para indicar simbólicamente los hogares que han sido desahuciados.
Como habitualmente hacemos, documentaremos gráficamente la intervención
y postearemos las imágenes a través de Espaciophake, donde todo el que quiera
podrá llevar a cabo cualquier aportación o comentario.
After going all over the exhibition: “Unsustainable
processes of urbanization following regressive strategies”, there’s nothing
much we could add as images speak for themselves, and, from Colectivo Komite,
we, as probably much of you have done, have ended with the same sad conclusion:
it is quite absurd to continue making grow the density of properties of this
country while the local authorities keep on expelling people from their homes
at the current pace.
That is, the urban policies projected from the authorities
continue tirelessly their eagerness to attract more and more people to the
cities (in the year 2050, cities will comprise more than the half of the global
population), to turn them out later with the excuse of a law dated from the
beginnings of the last century that only benefits to a small part of society:
the bankers and their boards.
We meet once more face to face with another one
of the great contradictions in which our society is immersed: come to a place
full of opportunities and live from the dream of the future while you can pay
for it, if not, leave with even less luggage with which you came.
Democracies at the beginning of a new
millennium: justice, equality and liberty only for those who can afford them.
We have borrowed some images from the
exhibition, and then modified to eventually make small models of asphyxiating
urban spaces and buildings whose facades have been marked to symbolically show
those homes that have been evicted.
As we
usually do, we will graphically document the urban intervention and post the
images on the blog espaciophake, where all of you that so want it could make
any commentaries or contributions to the project.
