The book explores the intersections between the material artifact ‘wall’ and its strategic and tactical relevance in the contemporary city. It deals with urban spatiality, public places, trajectories, and territoriality; visibility, urban surfaces, and urban visual landscape; materiality and immateriality; governmental and corporate strategies in the use of walls; writings in public space, graffiti, murals, street art, public art, outdoor advertisement, logos; use of space, right to the city, social practices, social actors, resistance, subcultures.
Author(s): Andrea Mubi Brighenti (ed.)
Publisher: professionaldreamers
Year: 2009
Language: English; Italian; French
Pages: 154
Introduzione / Introduction
1. Béatrice Fraenkel, Actes d’écriture: quand écrire c’est faire
2. Ella Chmielewska, Writing on the ruins, or graffiti as a design gesture
3. Lorenzo Tripodi, Towards a vertical urbanism. Space of exposure as a
new paradigm for public space
4. Andrea Mubi Brighenti, Walled urbs to urban walls – and return? On
the social life of walls
5. Cristina Mattiucci, Il muro come dispositivo percettivo
6. Claudio Coletta, Francesco Gabbi, Giovanna Sonda, Muri come trame
e infrastrutture urbane. Organizzare la città attraverso sensi, pratiche,
narrative, controversie
7. Francesca Cozzolino, Un exemple de prise de parole sur le mur. Les
peintures murales d’Orgosolo
8. Luciano Spinelli, Un regard vidéo participatif: les graffitis sur le web
9. Marco Solaroli, Illegal business? La costruzione dell’identità culturale
dei graffiti writers nella pubblicità visuale: il caso Montana
10. Ricardo Campos, On urban graffiti. Bairro Alto as a liminal space
