Intimidades Transgredidas: Habitar En Tránsito

Abstract

Today, the big city seems to have converted the condition of anonymity into destruction. A mixture of aversion and attraction pervades us, where the inability to control produces a shared exhaustion, an increase of inequalities and induces us to demand the standardization of cultures, or the homogenization of identities, from fear of losing our security. People who are outside certain values and who do not constitute power groups, remain excluded. We attempt to show the lives of a group of homeless people who cross our cities, looking for places to answer their daily needs and their human relations; places that are clearly public and which have now become scenes of transgressed privacies, by a clear exclusion on most occasions and transgressors of the supposed harmony of the conventionalized urban space. We have given the term "casa- indigente" (homeless house) to the set of actions, itineraries and appropriations that reflect these ways of living, and with the study of different real cases we want to seek certain keys for the future reflection of the reformulation of proposals in the sphere of the production of the public space, as well as in the definition of contemporary living, especially with regard to the reflections on proposals for inhabitants and habitat with origins in marginality.