Crisis of the imagination

Crisis of the Imagination In my imprecise memory is the memory of an interview with Helio Piñón and Albert Viaplana . I must confess that, everything that came from the imagination and the work table of these architects, called my attention a lot in my early days as a young professional architect, years in which the overwhelming current postmodern proposal monopolized all the attention of editorial publications in paper, when digital editions were not yet rated; It is also important to note that in Paraguay, in this general context, the situation was even poorer, since the paper editions were out of date and available (in my memory), only one “specialized” bookstore in architecture, urban planning and themes that revolved around these topics. I remember a couple of kiosks in the city center that randomly offered magazines specialized in Italian, French and American architecture, and we used the commutes of relatives and friends to have last minute publications. Returning to the aforementioned interview, the architects Viaplana and Piñón responded to the interviewer about their creative processes with a fairly clear image: that of a tangle. One of them commented that projecting then consisted of an experience similar to that of untangling a thread (or several), at the beginning, impossible to present as a linear and ordered process from start to finish. They were referring to a rather uncomfortable task, full of anxiety and intuition; like trying to untie the thread by clicking from various points of the knot; a struggle of trial and error in which the path itself would indicate the course towards the solution, until reaching the disentanglement, or the project and its idea of solving the problem. This image accompanied me in my memory often during all this time of reading and writing pages of this thesis, but the other way around completely, in the opposite direction: that of entangling threads, a sort of “Thread of Ariadna”. I think that the idea of a tangle or knot should not be intimidating as a hypothesis, as long as the thesis can serve to untangle or understand how it has become entangled, a kind of problem and solution. Internet is the new paradigm that I think entangles us today, revealing two generations. Namely Zygmunt Bauman , off / online generations. From another historical / geographical point of view, as a kind of dialectic. The year 1989 is the point in time of the paradigm; although the internet had originated twenty years earlier, in 1969, in the military sphere, as an alternative to a form of communication during the Cold War. Decades will pass in which it will evolve in research centers and universities until, in 1989, Tim Berners-Lee presents software based on protocols that will allow information to be viewed, using hypertext as the only Universal Document Identifier. A web of nets, a spider web in several planes that form a volume, perhaps a better image than a knot or tangle. For more coincidences with the paradigm, in 1989 the wall that divided Germany, Europe, and the world left and right fell. Coincidentally, in Paraguay, that same year the longest military dictatorship in Latin America also fell, led by General Alfredo Stroessner , who, with a duration of 35 years, defined a before and after for all Paraguayans. Surely the network of networks is a metaphor or a more rational definition, as mentioned, since it presents an order that can be quantified, even if it is infinite. Perhaps, at the end of this thesis, we will change our image, but, as long as it is a problem, a confusing and unclear concept, we will continue imagining it as a knot. It is clear that there is a bewilderment on the issue of internet; On the one hand, it has greatly facilitated the communication system, the sciences and progress in all fields, but it is also true that the power it has is causing damage and disorder that surprises u