RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2014 Session: (313) Assemblage Theory in Urban Research (1) 29th Agost 2014, Huxley Building, London
Paper:
Could urban assemblage approaches take some more risk about the future? The coast of Alicante as a study case
Presenters from University of Alicante:
Ester Gisbert - ester@arrsa.org Enrique Nieto - Enrique.Nieto@ua.es Jesús Olivares – jesusolivares@cor.cc
The museums of Guadalest atract so many visitors as the El Prado Museum in Madrid
Fig.: Entrance to Guadalest
The museums of Guadalest atract so many visitors as the El Prado Museum in Madrid
70 per cent of tourist residents in Alicante usually do shopping in flea markets
Fig.: Foreigner buying in Xal贸 Flea Market
The museums of Guadalest atract so many visitors as the El Prado Museum in Madrid
70 per cent of tourist residents in Alicante usually do shopping in flea markets
Currently one of every two houses is sold to foreigners and 24 per cent of the population are foreigners Fig.: Foreigner in Benidorm (1997) Font: Martin Parr –Magnum Photo
If assamblage can be a new paradigm (Farias) ‌
Can we have active and prospective tools inspired by assemblage theory?
Fig.: City of Benidorm (2007)
Lifestyle migrants redifine their quotidianity what has changed the entire of territory
Fig.: few
The same tourist in Benidorm a decades later
Fig.back: Beniform before tourist development in 60’s
Case 1: The orography
The mountain range has promoted a particular way of development
Benidorm
Fig.: Orographic map (Font: terrasit.gva.es)
Case 1: The orography
Foreigners established semipermanently attracted by pinturesque environent and liberty spaces at bargain price
Fig.: View Mediterranean sea from Guadalest village
Case 1: The orography
They’ve made up new business and original ways of making living that they’ve evolved and sustaind in time
Fig.: Salt and Pepper Shaker in Guadalest
Case 1: The orography
All this improbable business have made real some potential virtualities of these charming orography
Fig.: Miniature Museum Website Fig.back: Miniature of Guadalest
Case 1: The orography
Creativity could turn on the capacity of agency of materials
Fig.: Miniature Museum Website Fig.back: View of Guadalest
Case 2: Second-hand markets
Local institutions are appropiating flea markets as an tourist development tool, but also the participants are
Fig.: Second-hand Market in Xal贸 (Alicante)
Pedreguer
Denia El Verger
Teulada
Polop La Nucia Alfàs del Pi Benidorm Benidorm
Xaló
Pedreguer
Polop La Nucia
Denia
Case 2: S e c o n dEl- Verger hand markets
C o m p o n e n t s Xaló Teulada working to stabilize the identity of the assemblage as well as forcing it to charge
Alfàs del Pi Benidorm Benidorm
Fig.: Towns and connection map (Font: terrasit.gva.es)
Case 2: Second-hand markets
The urban grid that established a market of possibilities was set up and deformed by the same owners of a land, merchants, tourists ‌ that effected its actualization Fig.: Benidorm’s Urban Plan (1957)
Case 2: Second-hand markets
Territorialization: Encarnation in agents’ life empowerment and stable forms of personal development in time Fig.: Second-hand Market in Xaló (Alicante)
Case 3: Home building process
Benidorm
Fig.: Territory uses map (Font: terrasit.gva.es)
Case 3: Home building process Following the inhabitants through the process and discovering new agents
Fig.: Foreigners looking deals Fig.back: Coast of Xavea( Alicante)
Case 3: Home building process
The agency of home building process multiplies the spaces for critical intervention and development of skills is one of the most effective Fig.: Commercial advertising local magazine for foreigners
Creativity Polop’s waterhole
Embodied tieme Distribution Affection Ability
Benidorm Fig.: The route of the water line from Polop and Beniardà waterholes’ to Benidorm
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Fig.: Benidorm’s Mayor in 1978 photographed in Beniardà’s wellhead
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Self-Contractor Survival Guide Muestra Villena Rural Fair Dinamo Building P2P System The Crafter Entrepreneur Route
www.cor.cc
- Special Plan about Historical Houses in “Font Roja” Natural Park - Iridiscent Tile Development
Presenters from University of Alicante:
Ester Gisbert - ester@arrsa.org Enrique Nieto - Enrique.Nieto@ua.es Jesús Olivares – jesusolivares@cor.cc
Fig.: Benidorm’s Mayor in 1978 photographed in Beniardà’s wellhead