To plan the space of life: labyrinths of the time

Abstract

To plan the place where we live and to project its future is not a new subject. The simple fact of living in society always demanded a minimum organization. This organization demanded to think, limited by every historical moment, the offered conditions by the space to the regular life reproduction and consequently its projection, although the thought was not organized, systematized and understandable to those purposes. Only in XX century planning became an evident subject as an autonomous knowledge, which search answers to plan an urban space with conditions to effectively reproduce the society. It does not seem to be the simple amplification and development of the knowledge and of the technique about it that gave to planning so much detach. Questioning that change can light up the understanding of the how we comprehend and we project the space. Besides, depending on the point of view from where we can observe every single way countless of implanted projects took, we will always find a generous material to question and also to elaborate new proposals. The results of the made choices, of each engendered plan, of each accomplished decision, are new spaces, including time, becoming concrete and leading us to face new labyrinths to be unmasked. When they become concrete they gain the wealth of life. To think about the labyrinths of the time we projected is a radical need.