Border space : narrative beginning

This project analyses the field of current geographic political partitions offering an interdisciplinary evaluation able to describe the space in the borders as ‘narrative beginning’, as contact infrastructure that crosses territories where inhabitants are neither citizens nor refugees but only border people. Condemned to move or stand still in border space organized, often with urban traits, a sort of ‘border city’ with a rhizomatic trend that reformulates a synergistic relationship between the individual and the territory in an antinomic game of actions and reactions. Appears an idea of multiplicity in which the rhizome-like structure becomes decentralized configurations where each part can be connected to another without go through specific points, as the infrastructure network or even the virtual system of global contacts which, in effect, stays at the basis of nomadic thought: open which proceeds by intersections and juxtapositions, so not line but project. The space in the borders results in a new map of the delocalized space that increasingly requires of a design thinking that sometimes becomes ‘hard’ and sometimes ‘elastic’, sometimes ‘insurmountable’ and sometimes ‘flexible’ and that finds an answer in the connivance between opposites and in the territorial synergy. Therefore, the contradictory is accepted as an authentic force through which to interpret this singular urbanity made up of multitudes of hybrid, inclusive spaces from which to renegotiate spatial, social and economic relationships and to initiate an urban architectural development born ‘of the lower’. Starting from a large-scale analysis that has seen, in the last twenty years, an exponential increase in barricaded border paths up to a critical-objective assessment of the territorial repercussions given by the process of territorial fragmentation and which identifies the contradiction as the first reason to everything.