The César Manrique Foundation (FCM) will host the conference entitled Reconquest and renaturalization of public space, given by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa, next Thursday, November 7, at 7:30 p.m. The event will take place in the José Saramago room (La Plazuela, Arrecife) and will be broadcast live on the FCM website and YouTube channel.
Zabalbeascoa will talk about the threat to public space as a place of discovery and encounter between people and nature. A threat caused, in his opinion, by the progressive urbanization of the planet and economic profitability as a priority objective. All of this is protected, he points out, by changes in our leisure activities that promote the digital revolution and tourism understood as a consumer product.
During her conference, the journalist Anatxu Zabalbeascoa will analyze this problem by giving different examples from all over the planet, pointing to its causes, describing the existing change in urban areas - as well as those far from the city - and showing restorative proposals, built to rethink what the population has stopped seeing, caring for and defending.
This presentation is included within the reflection space Divergent Views. A forum in which critics, historians and art professors have participated to review the concepts and assessments established in contemporary culture on historical stages, trends, artistic movements, especially outstanding personalities or the connections between the different arts. Since its origins, this cycle has included the presence, among others, of Estrella de Diego, Kosme de Barañano, Juan Manuel Bonet, Simón Marchán, Aurora Fernández Polanco, Manuel Borja Villel, Luis Fernández-Galiano or, recently, Blanca de la Torre.
Anatxu Zabalbeascoa is a journalist and art historian. She has worked for El País for 30 years, she started writing about architecture and design and has ended up doing in-depth interviews with writers, psychiatrists, oncologists or economists for El País Semanal.
She is the author of more than 20 books, including: The New Spanish Architecture (1993, Rizzoli); Built Lives, where she narrates the biographies of twenty famous architects from the Renaissance to the Modern Movement (1998, Gustavo Gili); Everything about the house (2011, Gustavo Gili), or her latest book, in which she compiles interviews published in El País Semanal, entitled People who count (2021, Círculo de tiza). She has also written and narrated the podcast La Gran D (Spotify) about the history of Design.
