Learning to look at territories

Abstract

The traditional gaze over a place or territory is no longer the result of a collection of data or cartographic or historical information. It is in the transverse, the interrelated, the hyper-dated and transactional gaze, where contemporary thinking rests and through which new understandings of places can take place. In teaching architecture it is convenient to take into account a new factor, that of instability as a consequence from an increasingly indeterminate world. To navigate in our contemporary context, that is both saturated with information and at the same time uninformed, one needs to develop new strategies for seeing. Therefore, it becomes essential to understand the use of actions or experiments as an auxiliary method to viewing and understanding a territory. In this context, the AIMF teaching project, the Seek experiment by Nicholas Negroponte with the MIT, and a proposal for Rome 2025 are analysed in this text.