Coreografíar la experiencia urbana: 'RSVP cycles', de Anna & Lawrence Halprin

Abstract

Throughout the second half of the last century, industrial cities were the subject of profound processes of urban regeneration and revitalization, in a context of growing globalization and social fracture. In the sixties, before the manifestation of the structural crisis of the subsequent decade, the architect and landscape architect Lawrence Halprin, together with the contemporary dancer and choreographer Anna Halprin, developed a unique interdisciplinary research methodology, called RSVP Cycles, with which they tried to respond to the progressive fragmentation, destructuration and loss of meaning of the experience of urban space. The acronym RSVP Cycles refers to a critical procedure for designing urban spaces based on an exhaustive study of the resources in the place, followed by the proposal of scores, similar to choreographic notations, whose evaluation leads to interdisciplinary interventions and performances, in order to sensitize and re-signify the urban experience.