The Experience of Space. The City as a Pedagogical Place: A Landscape of Spatial Learning

ABSTRACT - The paper reads the city as an educational resource, and architecture as a means to acquire spatial awareness. As a powerful communication tool, is architecture able to mediate spatial knowledge? Can architecture involve the user and make him more aware of his qualities? Can the space of a city become a place of learning? If education is political action and knowledge is a tool of liberation, architecture is a democratic media if it leads its inhabitants to develop a new and renewed spatial awareness: then the city becomes a great school where one can acquire spatial knowledge, to overcome the spatial indifference typical of contemporary society.