Between 2000 and 2007, the Department of International Programs at the School of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires (FADU UBA), developed the Buenos Aires 2050 program. The program intended to foster thinking about the life in the city in the future. It was geared towards people involved with the university, other education centers, as well as citizens from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

A series of calls were made, encouraging a wide range of community members to imagine the future of Buenos Aires, expressing their hopes and expectations, desires and fears. The results were published in 2008 by the FADU UBA, the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, and the OLA, in the book Buenos Aires 2050 imágenes del futuro/decisiones del presente (Buenos Aires 2050 images of the future / decisions of the present). The contents reflect the ideas of neighbors, students, scientists, and professionals living and working in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Over 400 people participated this call.

An Advisory Committee of 15 experts (sociologists, anthropologists, scientists, lawyers, film directors, urban planners, educators, science fiction experts, and architects), reviewed the submissions and joined a Public Dialogue Panel. Between 2002 and 2004 the program carried out three calls and three exhibitions in Buenos Aires. It also and took part in other five exhibitions organized by the City of Buenos Aires, the University of Buenos Aires, and the Universal Forum of Cultures Barcelona 2004.

The slogan was: «Imagine you are in the year 2050, in Buenos Aires. Share with us a testimony of what you see, hear, feel, touch, smell, do, speak, think or tour. Send us a presentation of something that can be seen, touched, felt, walked through or listened to. Share us a drawing, a story, a blueprint, a video, a graphic, a story, an installation, a film, an object, or a photo. Or also an essay, a painting, a postcard, a gift, a souvenir, a story, a web page. Any format or combination of those is welcomed, share us whatever you want!.”

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Buenos Aires 2050 imágenes del futuro/decisiones del presente

EDICIONES FADU SECRETARIA DE EXTENSIÓN
arq. Beatriz Pedro
SUBSECRETARIO DE MEDIOS Y COMUNICACIÓN
dg.Javier Basile
DIRECCIÓN DE PUBLICACIONES
lic. Paula Siganevich
DISEÑO Y EDICIÓN GRÁFICA
dg. María Paula Salzman
ARTE DE TAPA
arq. Martín Gromez
dg. María Paula Salzman

Primera Edición
NOVIEMBRE 2007
ISBN: 978-987-22370-3-5
copyright: FADU – UBA / IIED – AL
© de todas las ediciones de la Facultad de
Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo de la
Universidad de Buenos Aires.

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Índice

[pag.1]> Edición
[pag.7]> Presentación
[pag.8]> Sorín, Decano FADU – UBA
[pag.9]> Dujovne y Cohen, Co-Presidentes del Consejo Asesor
[pag.10]> Cohen,Director del OLA NS

[pag.13]> Introducción
[pag.14]> Caride Bartrons y Gutman, Editores

[pag.19]> Primera parte
Hacia Buenos Aires 2050
[pag.20]> El poder de la anticipación: Buenos Aires 1910-2001-2050. Gutman
[pag.24]> El futuro en escena: propuestas y resultados. Caride Bartrons

[pag.29]> Segunda parte
Selección de presentaciones (2001-2004)
[pag.30]> Buenos Aires 2050: 5 años. Avira, Baldasarre y Gromez
[pag.33]> 01. Un encuadre blanco. La cápsula. Alba
[pag.37]> 02. Buenos Aires 2050 y los adolescentes. Guevara
[pag.41]> 03. Buenos Aires es un espejo de nuestras mentes. Asad y Juliá
[pag.43]> 04. El canon – La canonización – El olor del cielo. Campos
[pag.47]> 05. Copia en limpio. De Pedro, Ferraro, García y Menéndez
[pag.51]> 06. Buenos días, Buenos Aires. Scheinsohn
[pag.55]> 07. 9 de Julio, Provincia de Buenos Aires, 3-8-2052. Frid y Marconi
[pag.59]> 08. Buenos Aires megaciudad y solidaria. Ruibal y Kohanoff
[pag.63]> 09. Mar dulce, Río de la Plata, ribera de Vicente López. Dasseville
[pag.67]> 10. Proyecto simbiosis. Nudel
[pag.71]> 11. Memorias holográficas de la luz. Rolfo y Aranguren
[pag.75]> 12. Intitulado (no se va a llamar). Lynch y López
[pag.77]> 13. Alucina Buenos Aires. Olivera
[pag.83]> 14. MUT: un nuevo lenguaje urbano. Rivarola