Urban wanderings in Poble Nou: images and experiences in a transforming territory

Abstract

Trough this research, I’m interested to argue subjectivity and experience in urban spaces. The subject it’s me; in wanderings through the streets of Poble Nou’s neighbourhood in Barcelona, driven by my senses and perceptions. This nomadic subjectivity offers a preferential position to images, metaphors and aesthetics as social senses beyond the limits of grammatical constructions.

Images also reveal how mechanisms of power circulate in our ordinary live under the shades of global images. In my comprehensions along Poble Nou, images are surrounding the streets: from the global image-model of knowledge city, -that shows us through the new design architectures-, to the labourer neighbourhood imaginaries as an industrial and artistic area.

To clarify the tension among global power and local practices of every day life, I propose a trip through two metaphors that also figures my two situated perspectives to the neighbourhood: zenithal view cartographies and impure view location.