8 and 9 October 2008 held the first seminar of the monitoring and evaluation platform 'THINK MADRID' . Six international experts and five who live and work in Madrid discussed with 40 participants selected for this city and its possible vectors of change. The seminar was designed as the assembly of three critical practices: fieldwork, intellectual debate and cabinet design.
"The brutal growth of Madrid and its transformations of recent years, an invitation to think and reflect upon the complexity of these processes marked by demographic phenomena, social, economic, urban and cultural.
Madrid second most populated city in Europe third agglomeration European urban community, is experiencing a rapid process of change, in which reality in times of globalization evolves, new needs changing and it is important to discuss, influence and action.
The new realities of the XXI century the cities have become spaces of exchange: real platforms from which to imagine the future.
Madrid presents a context of social diversity and urban spaces increasingly heterogeneous, a metropolis of diffuse identity, while a city of startling contrasts.
A major urban scene changes add a new dimension to the city: from major infrastructure projects such as the M-30, Transport Network Metrosur, or the Management of Banks of the Manzanares River to the future urban operations: the prolongation de la Castellana, Operation Camp, or the Prado-Recoletos. MADRID
THINK is a research platform that aims to spark debate about the city through a proposed cross from architecture, contemporary art, urban planning, biology or economics. A space for reflection in which national experts have a voice, international, artists and citizens, a stage from which to analyze the urban condition in Madrid with extreme situations, hiding places, similar situations, an ever-changing urban landscape, a huge new kaleidoscope from which to observe the social and physical landscape of the city. Think Madrid
platform opens for business with the idea of \u200b\u200bcontinuity, with the concern of being able to accompany the city in the change process to become a benchmark for future developments, where the important thing is to build a new way of thinking, according the complexity of the new metropolitan stage, to finally have a voice in the agenda of planners, architects, sociologists and politicians.
The current economic cycle experienced by the city is the most adverse and intense that it has experienced over the past half century, from Madrid Think appreciate the crisis as an opportunity, a showcase that aims to place the city into the international scene of contemporary debate in which, even though we,
Madrid still absent. "Ariadne Cantis
Madrid, March 2009
text of Andrés Jaque based on different conclusions and evaluations obtained during the seminar. and state of the three priorities in a mother-in ecosystem
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