Publication for Ludic Process Under Construction an architectural, artistic and participative project based on the notion of Playground as a place to build common spaces in the city.
“The potential of the Playground as a figure of space can be the epicentre of a new revolution in reconstructing the meaning of city. As a virtually unlimited fragment it has the power to suspend time and cast doubt on the supposedly irremediable fates of the city.”
¬— Rui Mendes
“In our imagination we are constantly shipwrecked. We live “in the absolutism of reality”. If every technical solution to a problem opens the door to a host of other problems, and the prospect that the growing number of self-created problems will surpass the capacity for mastering them in the foreseeable future, then the generalized fear is by no means alien. The figure of the architect could thus be regarded as a myth.”
— Gerrit Confurius
“In the last decades of the 20th century art was invaded by the notions of project, process and laboratorial experiment, partly associated with a concern for the social usefulness of the artwork, often with marked political aspects. The PLEC project is an example of that, as it attempts to think how the appropriation and use of common space through a playground designed for children incorporates or denotes principles in line with an ideological stance.”
— Sara Antónia Matos e Pedro Faro