Archeology of rural and urban Landscapes

"Στην εργασία εξετάζεται η σχέση του σκέητμπορντ με τα δημόσια μνημεία, εστιάζοντας στη χρήση του ανδριάντα του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου στην παραλία της Θεσσαλονίκης ως πεδίου σκέητ (skatespot). Λαμβάνοντας υπόψη την επιτελεστική και θεαματική δράση του σκέητμπορντ, και τους στοχασμούς της Josette Féral για τη θεατρικότητα και του Σταύρου Σταυρίδη για τη σκηνή ως «μετέωρο χώρο της ετερότητας», υποστηρίζεται ότι τα δημόσια μνημεία αποτελούν σημαντικές σκηνές για την επιτέλεση τόσο του έργου της εξουσίας όσο και του σκέητμπορντ. Συνεπώς, η διεκδίκησή τους προτάσσει το δικαίωμα των μικρότερων σε κοινωνική ισχύ ομάδων στο δημόσιο χώρο.
This paper examines the relationship between skateboarding and public monuments, and focuses on the use of the statue of Alexander the Great at the seafront of Thessaloniki as a skatespot in Greece. Sources of fruitful speculations have been Josette Féral’s thoughts on theatricality and Stavros Stavrides’ views of the stage as a “suspended space of alterity”. Taking into account the performative and spectacular character of skateboarding and examining the use of other monuments as skatespots, it is suggested that the skateboarders’ claim of a public monument is a claim of a stage. Public monuments operate as important stages in the urban landscape and their claim by skateboarders enhances the right of less powerful groups to use the public space."

Persistenza indigena, consistenza, articolazione, forma e funzionalità urbanistiche dei municipia della Puglia centrale consentono di leggere la complessa vicenda storica e insediativa di questo comparto nel lungo periodo esteso fra l’età della romanizzazione e il III sec. d.C. La raccolta e la disamina complessive del patrimonio documentario permettono così di ricostruire – per la prima volta, in maniera organica e in un disegno globale – il profilo dello spazio urbano dei ‘Poediculorum oppida’ secondo una prospettiva dinamica che lascia cogliere segni di ristrutturazione e di omologazione, di novità e di vivacità, di rottura e di interazione, per provare a riconsiderare quell’idea pervicace di ineluttabile ‘crisi’ tradita fino a tempi recenti e a tracciare un quadro poleografico calibrato su una intensa e morfogenetica tensione fra metabolismo e simbiosi.

The indigenous persistence, texture, articulation, shape and functionality of the urban definition of the municipia in central Apulia demonstrate the nature of the complex history and settlement of this area in the long period between the age of Romanization and the third century AD. The comprehensive collection and examination of the material evidence make it possible to reconstruct – for the first time, in an organic manner and in a global framework – the profile of the urban space of ‘Poediculorum oppida’. This has been carried out according to a dynamic perspective that reveals signs of restructuring and approval, of novelty and vibrancy, of strength and interaction, to make possible the reconsideration of that stubborn idea, prevalent until recently, of an ineluctable ‘crisis’, and to draw a picture of urban geography calibrated according to an intense and morphogenetic tension in terms of the assimilation of Roman culture and adaptation to local conditions.