Curatorial Practice as (Place) Making: Social Imagination, Cultural Laboratories, and Public Space in Madrid (2008–2015)

Imaginarios culturales y cartografías ciudadanas insurgentes en el Madrid de comienzos del siglo xxi

“…La redefinición sobre qué es un paisaje urbano sirvió de pregunta para programas municipales como los de Intermediae que, bajo este paraguas, activó con recursos y metodologías específicas la posibilidad de producir cultura fuera del centro. A través de esta iniciativa barrios como Usera, Vallecas o Tetuán realizaron una serie de proyectos donde las asociaciones vecinales colaboraron con los productores culturales 65 . Otras metodologías como los paseos fueron adoptadas posteriormente en el gobierno de Ahora Madrid, por ejemplo, el diagnóstico participativo realizado en el Barrio de las Tablas en 2015 66 .…”

Looking Beyond Interaction: Exploring Meaning-Making Through the Windows of an Art Gallery

“…The sociology of art offers a wealth of research into the impact of local context on the production and consumption of art, with contexts like the home (Halle, 1993), exercise class (DeNora, 2000), or the city of Berlin (Bartmanski and Woodward, 2019), studied for how they impact the meanings that artworks afford. Such "terroir-driven practices and logics" are increasingly understood to be central to an understanding of cultural production, the study of which has therefore become entangled with the study of place, localities, and contexts (Luckman, 2020, p. 177;Fernándes López et al, 2021). For example, the 2019 collection, Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond, foregrounds how the "qualities of [a] place" inform non-metropolitan creative economies (Van Leyn and de la Fuente, 2019).…”

“…Likewise, art gallery and museum architecture, and influential architects of the art world, have been widely studied (Crimp & Lawler, 1993;MacLeod, 2013;Patterson, 2019;Lindsay, 2020). A history is charted from the "marble palaces" of the late 1800s and early 1900s, like New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (Steffensen-Bruce, 1998), through "postmodern museums" like the Centre Pompidou that began to appear in the 1970s (Crimp & Lawler, 1993, p. 282), to the "iconic" and "place-making" designs, like the Guggenheim Bilbao, popular since the turn of the century (Macgregor, 2020;Thompson, 2020;Fernándes López et al, 2021). A key stake in contemporary art gallery and museum architecture is the engagement of the "public" with the building's spaces and meanings.…”

Looking beyond interaction: exploring meaning making through the windows of an art gallery

“…The sociology of art offers a wealth of research into the impact of local context on the production and consumption of art, with contexts like the home (Halle 1993 ), exercise class (DeNora 2000 ), or the city of Berlin (Bartmanski and Woodward 2019 ), studied for how they impact the meanings that artworks afford. Such “terroir-driven practices and logics” are increasingly understood to be central to an understanding of cultural production, the study of which has therefore become entangled with the study of place, localities, and contexts (Luckman 2020 , p. 177; Fernándes López et al 2021 ). For example, the 2019 collection, Regional Cultures, Economies, and Creativity Innovating Through Place in Australia and Beyond, foregrounds how the “qualities of [a] place” inform non-metropolitan creative economies (Van Leyn and de la Fuente 2019 ).…”

“…Likewise, art gallery and museum architecture, and influential architects of the art world, have been widely studied (Crimp & Lawler 1993 ; MacLeod 2013 ; Patterson 2019 ; Lindsay 2020 ). A history is charted from the “marble palaces” of the late 1800s and early 1900s, like New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Steffensen-Bruce 1998 ), through “postmodern museums” like the Centre Pompidou that began to appear in the 1970s (Crimp & Lawler 1993 , p. 282), to the “iconic” and “place-making” designs, like the Guggenheim Bilbao, popular since the turn of the century (Macgregor 2020 ; Thompson 2020 ; Fernándes López et al 2021 ). A key stake in contemporary art gallery and museum architecture is the engagement of the “public” with the building’s spaces and meanings.…”