Physics has not yet been able to predict the movement of a body when it coexists with two others. Being located in this unpredictable nature, the only certainty of the city is that changes in its environment take place every 7 days. Just like in Bernard Tschumi’s project, this framework or grid structures the flows, but still let space for the individuals to act according to singularities, taking different paths within it. But the path of one repetitive action on the brain of each individual takes more than 7 days in order to deep and consolidate, there’s not time for it to become automatic. When the habit is in the process of being established, it’s interrupted by an event. In order to don’t perceive that as a chaos, the individual tendency of creating an habit as a search for its equilibrium expresses in the city. The inhabitants tend to incorporate this constant variant as a new habit. They adapt though time to this constant in change city. To this city located in between a city and the city.

Veronica Berardi, Alessandra Fudoli: 7 days city (2020)

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