Ruben Hanssen on How Urban Planning can be Beautiful, Transforming Dystopian Future into Bliss
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2024
- Growing up in Rembrandt's hometown Leiden, Ruben Hanssen developed an interest for the built environment and has studied Urban Planning at the University of Amsterdam and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology.
In 2021 he founded @theaestheticcity which is a podcast devoted to the discussion of how to build a more livable, healthy and beautiful environment. The channel is also featured on UA-cam with educational content, such as the very informative video called "Why is it Beautiful?":
• What Makes Buildings B...
What is going wrong in cities all over the world? Which errant paths do planners still take?
What "collective image" do we have of the future? How is the mainstream idea of the future formed by popular media and tending towards dystopian nightmarish visions?
Ruben Hanssen covers these questions and more.
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Chapter markers:
00:35 Introduction
01:25 How Hanssen got into urban planning
07:05 Beauty: a non-subject in education
12:40 A practical approach
16:08 Problems of concept & sales-based architecture
21:24 The Aesthetic City podcast
30:43 Beauty from a neuroscientific perspective
36:44 Ugliness causes stress, fear and suspicion
40:21 The importance of ground level floors
44:23 Leon Krier's Cayala in Guatemala
49:43 Dystopic or blissful view of the future?
59:38 Beauty is hard, ugliness is easy
1:03:01 Vitruvius on beauty
1:06:12 Regular spaces can easily be made pleasant
1:10:28 A change for the better?
1:12:41 Summer schools in classical architecture
1:17:22 Estimation grows when knowledge grows
1:20:15 What is wrong with the field of urban design?
1:25:58 Real alternatives vs Progress (towards what?)
1:31:05 Increasing literacy of what works
This episode featured Ruben Hanssen & Carl Korsnes and was filmed and edited by Bork Nerdrum.
The centerpiece was a photograph of Azaria Civic Hall in Cayala, Guatemala by Ruben Hanssen.
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Truly we need a renaissance in the making and reshaping of towns and cities, we have the materials and knownladge for beautiful cities, our politicians seem obsesed with big ugly buildings.
It's not that they are obsessed with making ugly, it's that they have no incentive to make anything beautiful. They need to be shown by the citizens that there are consequences to their actions.
@@K.Dilkington I agree, we should be a lot more vocal about all that.
Very interesting conversation, I just finished listening to it and appreciated particularly the strong arguments on how classical architect promotes better mental public health! Congrats for the interesting conversation.
This is such a wonderful discussion about how crazy the narrative has been with urban design in the "modern times" and how is perfectly explained with reference to the pandemic time, ways architecture can play a big role in creating a new positive narrative. It's what I focus my type on supporting, and is something I hope to speak to Ruben about scaling further. The narrative and way we design are interconnected, so there is so much potential to evolve both in a positive way that makes people and places come alive again full of energy and health. ⚡🙏🏻
Thank you for this video. Very enjoyable.
Another great video, Love everything you both do in regards to city planning and architecture
Hansson should read the writings of Léon Krier who has been working on new traditional architecture since the eighties of the last century.
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@1:14:40 This describes me.
What’s most interesting about these conversations is seeing Europeans come to terms with their lack of freedom, freedom of thought, freedom to build, freedom to choose beauty.
fReE hEaLtHcArE tHo.
@@TheGerogeroyeah so much more important 🙄
@@miketackabery7521 I am quadruple vaccinated and in severe pain. 🤩
@@TheGerogero 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Careful, because the fixation with defining everything is a modern delusion.
Can you explain what you mean by this? Sounds profound. But I am not sure if I understood this right
@@estasenora9747 Modernity is the age of quantity, as Guenon explains. The belief that only what can be measured exists is at the root of scientism. The need for definition is integral to the drive to quantify everything and fails to recognise the elusive nature of what isn't measurable, as well as the role of intuition as opposed to reasoning. It is also intrinsically delusional, because every definition harkens back to something that has been defined by something else, which in turns must ultimately refer to something that cannot be defined but can only be assumed. This is well known for example in Geometry, which acknowledges a few root concepts which cannot be defined but only intuited.
I really really despise this "scientific" approach to pleasing architecture. Beauty is not the domain of dumb engineers. Mathematics cannot explain instinct.
@PVRE What makes you assume that "neuroscience" can understand beauty?