Interview with Francesco Careri

Authors

  • David Arredondo Garrido Universidad de Granada

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30827/7371

Keywords:

Francesco Careri, Walkscapes, walking, aesthetic practice, civic arts

Abstract

Francesco Careri is a professor of Urban Planning at the Dipartimento di Architettura of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre. His book Walkscapes, published by Gustavo Gili in 2002, provided a brand-new look at landscape, laying the foundations for the understanding of walking as an aesthetic practice. With references such as Land Art and Situationism, Careri and the Stalker group (to which he has belonged to since the mid- 1990s), have published their work widely, given conferences and, most importantly, gone on walks throughout the world to recognize territories from new perspectives. To wander across lesser known landscapes, to climb walls, to cross wire fences, to trip or to get injured… become tools to experience, through one’s own body, an urban reality which cannot be grasped by means of books and theories. Through his Laboratory of Civic Arts, he proposes, along with his students, this free and unprejudiced way of reading and understanding the cities; where there is still much to be said. In this interview, conducted in February 2017, we delve into some of these issues related to Stalker, and his work as a professor and as a writer.

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Author Biography

David Arredondo Garrido, Universidad de Granada

Doctor Arquitecto y Máster en Arquitectura y Patrimonio Histórico. Imparte docencia desde 2009 en el Área de Composición Arquitectónica de la Universidad de Granada. Miembro de estudiobnkr, ha colaborado con el estudio de Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas en proyectos como el Museo de Bellas Artes del palacio de Carlos V o la Muralla Nazarí del Alto Albaycín. Ha sido investigador invitado en la Technische Universität Berlin, el Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudios Sociales de la Universidad de Évora, la Universidad Internacional de Andalucía o la Universidad de Málaga. Ha participado en la elaboración del Registro Andaluz de Arquitectura Contemporánea (RAAC) y del SUDOE para la provincia de Granada. Actualmente forma parte del grupo de investigación HUM813 Arquitectura y cultura contemporánea, desde donde desarrolla su investigación en torno a los nuevos modos de intervención en el espacio público y la influencia en ellos de actividades patrimoniales tales como la agricultura.

Published

2018-05-02

How to Cite

Arredondo Garrido, D. (2018) “Interview with Francesco Careri”, SOBRE, 4, pp. 144–152. doi: 10.30827/7371.

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