No one acts alone. No one is alone. There are many places that I belong to. Many places that have shaped me. I come from a network of connections and create new weaves. The environment that surrounds me shows me systems of valuation and outlines the paths of functioning in reality. My actionsare subject to these predetermined patterns. I can act according to them or confront them by setting my own. However, I am always reflected in society. There I need to be understood and seen. There I look for similar ones or I oppose those with whom I do not agree with. Through my actions I attract allies of my values. Understanding unites. As an individual, I initiate the breakdown or building of social groups. I create the environment by attracting those similar to me. At the same time, I confront those with different opinions. Through my action, the action of the group that I co-create becomes apparent. Through each individual, a set of characteristic of a given group is expressed.
Society is a complex net of interconnected individuals.
Social spaces are a weave of factors and actions. They are a bridge between what is physically experienced and what is internal. Geographic location, administrative division, city plan are silent actors determining the scope of human actions. Institutions define categories that define individuals. For example, civil registry offices capture our romantic life, health centers relate to health, universities and schools develop knowledge, courts as bastions of justice resolve disputes, centers with expert knowledge allow for obtaining certificates. These places meet the needs of individuals. Not all administratively defined places meet the diverse needs of individuals. Some of them do not fit into the contemporary model of life, marginalize certain needs or even entire groups. The non-adaptation of systems to the changing society leads to the expansion of extra-territorial outskirts, bypassed states. This stands in opposition to the idea of urban spaces as public, i.e. concerning the whole society. However, the silent actors of urban spaces are plastic. They are subject to the influence of individuals. They, joined in groups, initiate change. They problematize the existing situations or sow doubts in axiomatic patterns. Through their constant impact on rigid systems, in the long term, they reconstruct anew what is established.
Social is not what is established statistically. Social is not simply a matter of numbers or demographics. It is also a matter of relationships, interactions, and shared values. Where every voice is important and heard, it is we - individuals - who want to build the foundation of our reality. Social is common, it is the cocoon of reality, which we weave individually. It consists a network of connections. This thread is created where relationships are formed – at meeting spots with different groups of people, places for exchanging thoughts, places of turnover of material goods. The behaviour of individuals in these spaces creates the identity of places. They determine the way in which spaces and participants of events there function. On this basis, a norm is created - the trajectory of social behaviour. That’s the bridge between what is soft and internal with what is material and hard. Social weaves the elusive sphere of feelings, beliefs, values with the physical matter of reality.
By our actions, we can shape the social fabric of our world.
Urban infrastructure is a space dedicated to society. It serves the public good. Therefore, it should meet the needs of society or even anticipate them. In response to the growing gaps in the full functioning of the entire urban agglomeration, urban plans should create places that will green these fallow spaces. The inconvenience of urban infrastructure is becoming a pretext for changes on a much broader scale than just spatial planning. Changes in the land-use plans are a response to voices that are being heard. They take into account groups that were previously marginalized or excluded from agency through insensitive systemic solutions.The changing environment allows us to react to this morphing shape of society, taking into account its polyphony.A society united by inclusiveness becomes a fluid mass filling the existing systemic solutions. It coats the openwork constructs, creating full-fledged urban spaces.