Paisaje Transversal in Fluxus to the People

"Fluxus to the People" is a program of concerts, activities, schedules, conferences, and a documentary that explores the space of the collective imagination presented by the Reina Sofia Museum. Paisaje Transversal participate in the cycle of the Fluxus movement Arganzuela organizing a tour, which will be called "Espacios de batalla."

Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi. A fluxatlas: spatial poem. Poster, 1992. Source: Reina Sofía Museum.

The itinerary that proposes Paisaje Transversal is inspired by the flux tours, in these itineraries, open to the arts community, the city and its transformation were explored. The tour of the neighbourhood shows Arganzuela's social conflict and the cracks of neighbourhood associations.

By the late '60s, Fluxus practice was transformed and shifted from being centred in the concert hall or theatre to having an urban character and playful, sometimes bordered on irreverence. The actions proposed routes through the metropolitan area, where the randomness and comedy were combined in order to offer unexpected images of the city that challenged the ruling and urban transformation, the so-called Fluxtours.

The cycle program takes the form of a festival in a conscious way. On the one hand, it claims a playful, participatory and even burlesques nature that characterized many of the manifestations of the art since 1960, often unknown and opposed to its more institutional version. On the other hand, it tested ways of approaching contemporary art from public activity, and different forms of exposure in its ephemeral nature and proposed an idea of fun review, contrary to simple cultural leisure.

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Poster announcing free Flux-Tours. Source: Reina Sofia Museum.

George Maciunas. Perpetual Fluxus Festival. poster, 1964-65. Fluxus Edition Washington Square Gallery. Courtesy of Fundación Maciunas. Source: Reina Sofía Museum.

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Meeting point in Espacio D, Biblioteca (Library) building. Reina Sofia Art Center National Museum. Calle Santa Isabel, 52, Madrid. Spain.

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September 23, 2012, starting at 12.00 h.

Transversal Paisaje

Paisaje Transversal emerged in June 2007 when some students of the School of Architecture at the Technical University of Madrid put together some thoughts on the city and territory. At the embryonic stage, they established the basis on which their business has developed during these four years. They believe that the complexity of the environment, whether natural or artificial, requires particular thought and coordinated action across multiple disciplines. In this scenario, the traditionally dominant role of the architect loses force leading to a disciplinary consciousness in which the part of sociologists, artists, biologists, geographers and environmentalists, among many other professions, takes on greater prominence.

The first reflections expressed in the blog were drifting to urban topics. Organizing the workshop "Contemporary metropolitan conditions" on ETSAM in January 2008 marked a before and after in their theoretical concerns. This shift was made finally a year later with the workshop "urban negotiation processes."

In 2010, they organized another workshop entitled "Letters of urban navigation", which dealt with new ways of mapping the city and how the maps can also be powerful tools for proposal. In 2011 they organized the conference "For a future and a city worthy." In September 2011, coinciding with its participation in the VIII-building companies in the UPM, it decided to jump into the profession and create a national association with which they have begun to develop its projects.

Paisaje Transversal has made several presentations related to city planning, citizen participation and urban ecology in various academic and professional forums ("World Congress of urban development INTA35" in Grenoble, France, 2011 and "5 ° CONAMA Local" in Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2011, among others) and different teaching and participatory projects (project bottom-up of participatory urban regeneration in the colony Virgen de Begoña, Madrid, 2011).

Since 2011 they have developed more than 200 projects distributed between Spain, Europe and Latin America. Its scope of work covers 4 scales: public space, neighborhood, city and territory. They have received various awards for their career and their innovative contributions in the field of urban planning, such as the 2015 Award for Excellence in the Social Economy of Madrid, the 2016 Arquia Innova Award from the Arquia-próxima Young Spanish Architecture Biennial or the City Award for Best Citizen Commitment 2019.