Publication: Ruinas del presente. Un Grand Tour del siglo XXI
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2014
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Sección Departamental de Histoira del Arte III (Contemporánea), Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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La quiebra de Lehman Brothers en 2008 dio inicio a una recesión global que afectó de manera muy desigual a las economías mundiales, siendo especialmente ostensible en España, donde el crecimiento económico durante los años previos a la crisis se basó en un modelo que entregó el 20% del Producto Interior Bruto a la construcción. Este modelo se implantó con la firme creencia de que el crecimiento era infinito, y de que la construcción de infraestructuras, que a primera vista podrían parecer innecesarias, generaría más crecimiento a su vez. Las consecuencias en el territorio no se dejaron esperar, y en pocos años los bordes de nuestras ciudades fueron objeto de planes urbaníñsticos desproporcionados.
Este trabajo es un recorrido por el área metropolitana de Madrid, que se completa con una investigación detallada de lo sucedido. Un territorio que sucumbió de lleno a este modelo, en previsión de un crecimiento demográfico que no se dio. Una suerte de Grand Tour del siglo XXI, en el que se identifican una serie de localizaciones donde la obsolescencia de este modelo se muestra de manera patente e hiriente. Se trata de territorios devastados, que la crisis ha convertido en ruina: una ruina al revés que, como afirmaba Robert Smithson, a medida que se va construyendo alcanza esa condición. Los ensanches abandonados, las estructuras desnudas, los equipamientos incompletos o las infraestructuras en desuso carecen, a pesar de su monumentalidad, de un pasado glorioso. Son las Ruinas del presente.
Lehman Brothers fall in 2008 put world capitalism and the economical model that supports it in check. The global recession that followed affected world economies unequally. Spain, where construction industry represented 20% of the GDP, was particularly hit. This model was based on a firm belief: growth was endless, and building seemingly redundant infrastructure would bring even more growth. The repercussions of such model in the territory where evident shortly after it was implanted: in a few years the outskirts of our cities become the battleground of disproportioned planning. This work is a tour around the metropolitan area of Madrid and a detailed research on the objective facts. The area gave in to this model of development in attendance of a demographical growth that never was. This work is some sort of 21st Century Grand Tour, where the sites portrayed bare the obsolescence of the model. These devastated territories have been left in ruins by the economical turmoil: a reverse ruin, as Robert Smithson pointed out, which reaches such condition as it is being built. The abandoned urban developments, exposed structures, uncompleted facilities and underused infrastructures do not possess, despite their monumentality, a glorious past. They are the Ruins of the Present.
Lehman Brothers fall in 2008 put world capitalism and the economical model that supports it in check. The global recession that followed affected world economies unequally. Spain, where construction industry represented 20% of the GDP, was particularly hit. This model was based on a firm belief: growth was endless, and building seemingly redundant infrastructure would bring even more growth. The repercussions of such model in the territory where evident shortly after it was implanted: in a few years the outskirts of our cities become the battleground of disproportioned planning. This work is a tour around the metropolitan area of Madrid and a detailed research on the objective facts. The area gave in to this model of development in attendance of a demographical growth that never was. This work is some sort of 21st Century Grand Tour, where the sites portrayed bare the obsolescence of the model. These devastated territories have been left in ruins by the economical turmoil: a reverse ruin, as Robert Smithson pointed out, which reaches such condition as it is being built. The abandoned urban developments, exposed structures, uncompleted facilities and underused infrastructures do not possess, despite their monumentality, a glorious past. They are the Ruins of the Present.
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Esta obra ha sido editada por Beatriz Fernández Ruiz y cuenta con una breve introducción suya. También hay dos pequeños textos que preceden al del autor. Uno de Christopher Marcinkoski, "A grand tour (of the city that never was)" y otro de Javier Arpa, "El lugar de los hecho".