"Elemental Heterotopia"

Even the city has its elementals.

Small dots around which everything else revolves. Aggregators of mobile particles around, which rotate, rotate, rotate.

And then, suddenly, they flee – finding their way.

Very fluid and no longer static, the roundabouts are the 5.0 version of the crossroads, the urban hub par excellence.

v. 1.0 – The city originated from a crossroads (aggregation time).

v. 2.0 – The market originated from a crossroads (action time).

v. 3.0 – The square originated from a crossroads (construction time).

v. 4.0 – The traffic light originated from a crossroads (discipline time).

v. 5.0 – Roundabouts: what originates from an intersection that becomes round, and fluid, and slippery? Inside that circular piece of land, it seems that anything can happen (liquid time, ours).

Branched synapse of the viability. Irreducible. Elemental.

Places that are a heterotopia – “place of the Other” –, circular enclosures that, like atomic nuclei, remain fixed at the center of a constant motion.

Are we sure we really know them? 

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