In the light of Lumen

There are architects that design walls and roofs to let people in, and there are architects that design processes to let people meet. To regenerate an urban fragment, the second ones are as important as the first ones. Lumen is a physical place under constant evolution: the result of a ten-year experimentation of temporary events. Nowadays, many professionals work across disciplines to regenerate urban spaces, and they define themselves as urban practitioners. Practice, in this definition, can be interpreted as the Aristotelian Praxis, as opposed to Poiein. They both mean “to act”, but while the definition of Poiein means to produce something, as in building a house, Praxis means to do something that is good in itself without any permanent physically built result, as in building social relations between people that dwell in the same place.