The art of reimagining the space. The relationship between Arte Povera and Architettura Povera

Felicori, Bianca [UCL]

Bianca Felicori (Université Catholique de Louvain) participated in the workshop "Unfold in-3: languages,geographies & temporalities of contemporary independent art" (Milan, May 18, 2022) as a discussant in the round table "The art of reimagining the space". The workshop was organized by the University of Milano-Bicocca and Pirelli HangarBicocca as part of the research project Milano Re-Mapped. While art began to speak of “poverty” already at the end of the 1960s, Dalisi gave birth to and theorised “poor technology”, a process that stimulates collective participation and spontaneous creativity, combining educational practice with knowledge of the urban dimension in its social and political connotations. At the heart of the discipline, once again, is manual labour and physical participation in production. Not only does “poor technology” consist in the use of recycled materials, but also in the application of a series of techniques that belong to the past, which are not intended to be a nostalgic revival of craftsmanship, but rather a realistic awareness, the aim of which is to re-establish the balance between architecture and life.