CITY CONNECT :: PATRONANDO MADRID  © 2016

City Connect :: Patronando Madrid, 2016
Aluminium, rubber band, threaded rod
600 x 400 x 150 cm (h)
Fundación Metrópoli, Ecobox, Alcobendas, Madrid

City Connect :: Patronando Madrid interprets the central core of the Spanish capital as a matrix, a sculptural loom, where multiple threads "weave" different situations in the city, a rhizome of mobility and urban connectivity. The city understood as a fabric where different routes and possibilities can be patterned and mapped. Madrid's M30 is an "urban motorway" that has the potential to be progressively transformed into an Ecobulevar, an axis of urban revitalisation, of collective transport and exchange, in dialogue with the urban fabric of the heart of the city. The Space Syntax (Fundación Metrópoli) studies inspired this installation, which identifies five areas of accessibility and centrality within the capital. Overlapping lines, routes and patterns that weave the network through which urban flows circulate. The resulting map resembles a rhizome, a kind of burrow, a complex and random network of paths whose destination is undefined and whose process is open, establishing a parallelism between the textile and cartographic worlds.

CREDITS::

Conceptualisation: Esther Pizarro / Fundación Metrópoli
Production: Esther Pizarro Studio
Funding: Project realized with the support of Knowlege Partner, Fundación Metrópoli

EXHIBITED IN ::

Fundación Metrópoli, Ecobox. “Mapping complexity. Supercities”. Comisariado: Ana Gorroño. Alcobendas, Madrid, 18/02/2016 al 04/03/2017

ASSOCIATED CATALOGUE ::

Pizarro, Esther (2017). Catálogo exposición: Mapping Complexity. Supercities, La inteligencia del Territorio. Textos: Ana Gorroño, Félix Ruiz de la Puerta, Esther Pizarro, Alfonso Vegara. Extensión: 60 páginas. Idioma: español. Formato: 24x21 cm. Encuadernación: rústica. Edita: Fundación Metrópoli. ISBN: 978-84-617-7921-5, DL: M-1464-2017