A New Social Imagination

Abstract

This article analyses the role of the architecture in contemporary society, considering the questions put in its various sectors, the relationship of the constructed world, the natural word and the human being. Proposing new analysis of the territory and proposing new methodological strategies of intervencion and creation. In this context, it will try to understand the interactions between the built world, the natural, the humane, technology in the space-time dialectics, achieving through this interaction an instrumental re-reading of the whole process proposing a new understanding of reality in order to be possible create a new social imagination. So, using some philosofical references, as examples, but also in the scope of contemporaneous architectural intervention, this study will suggest an instrumental re-reading and re-learning which will favour the creative act for a new social intervention with focus on the imaginary of a creative imagination. The space as an imaginary reference for creator of memories and imagination.