“Narrative urbanism”. Una nostra recensione di MONU Magazine 29

Recently the architect Bernd Upmeyer, founder of the BOARD studio and editor-in-chief of MONU (Magazine on urbanism), invited us to review the number 29 of the well-known dutch magazine, entitled Narrative Urbanism.
As our Saverio has written, the issue has the merit of focusing on the immaterial value and on what is not measurable, in an era marked and “obsessed” by algorithms and impact measurements. Below the incipit of the review:

In this time so influenced by impact evaluations, algorithms and dictatorship of data, the issue states an urgent and relevant point: to promote value-based narratives, processes and projects, letting emerge the immaterial factors driving urban transformations. Thus, Narrative Urbanism is a contribution through which to imagine a counterbalance, focusing on what can’t be measured but can be perceived, what can’t be strictly evaluated but has a meaningful value for living.

The review is entitled New urban imaginary and performative practice. Indeed, through the different points of view and interpretations of what is “narrative urbanism”, it is possible to identify two main foci: the first is about tracing a new urban imaginary expressed through a visual language. A second focus concerns narrative urbanism as a performative practice.
Read the entire review at this link. Browse the entire issue #29 on Youtube.