- Venue
- Bermondsey Project
- Date
- Saturday, October 19, 2013
- Address
- 46 Willow Walk London SE1 5SF
- Location
- London
Led by Natalia Plata.
This workshop aims to reflect how symbols abstracted from a social reality create a diverse organisational space that reflexes the complex realities of Latin Americans as a community in London. Therefore there will be an analysis about the social production of space through the design of spatial configurations as places where there is a cohesion and coexistence of knowledge and meanings. The workshop would reflect how it is possible to uncover the social relationships embedded in a place through photography as a visual mean, which can accompany and support social actions, due to its capacity to reveal spatial existences. Images can analyse the covers of textures which stand for the lifeworld of any social grouping. During the workshop there would be also an analysis of place as a phenomenological experience that influences and affects our actions in it. In the specific case of this Latin American space the reflection will focus on how a place stands for resistance and social change. Materialities and objects in places hold a relevance due to the capacity of objects to be determinant of our identities and behaviours. The characteristics of any social grouping are learned through our engagement with materialities and objects in our everyday life.
