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Hipercatalunya Research Territories
Manuel Gausa u.a
HiperCatalunya is a territorial analysis and research project
promoted by the Government of Catalonia, directed by Metàpolis
and undertaken at the Institute of Advanced Architecture
of Catalonia (IaaC).
In an advanced prospecting of today¹s territory, HiperCatalunya
seeks to import tomorrow¹s potentials. to interrogate
the territory to bring out its capacities and latencies.
Beyond the traditional mechanisms of territorial analysis,
this group endeavour attempts to identify and express a
multidisciplinary approach to our environment, encouraging
interpretations open to potential interaction between the
existing and the imaginable, in accordance with an innovative
dimension of contemporary culture tending of foster new
spaces for new ways of life, but also new logics and new
aesthetics for new escenarios of progress. With this purpose
in mind, the work carried out has generated a wide range
of research projects and materials intended for the understanding
of specialists and the general public alike. HiperCatalunya
is a reflection, and seeks to stimulate reflection, on the
true territorial dimension of Catalonia, establishing through
theoretical and practical approaches four main realms of
analysis, reflection and proposal, understood as operative
frameworks as well as strategic layers of action, aimed
at anticipating and visualizing possible key questions in
the future development of the territory.
2004 IAAC, Generalitat de Catalunya and ACTAR, ISBN 84 95951-40-1
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