MADRID, SPAIN Representing the Collective in the Circular City: Madrid, New Proximities in the Post-Industrial Productive City

Representing the Collective in the Circular City is a reflection about the new proximities in the post-industrial productive city and its impacts on a political, ecological, spatial, social and economic level. The research is supported by five fundamental aspects about circularization and territorial metabolism: political scale, territorial segregation, urban armatures, hybridization, and the imaginary of the collective.
The circular city is anchored to the new distances and cycles, non-linear, between production-distribution-consumption. What are the scales of these new loops and which collective spaces can emerge from these environments?
The city of Madrid serves as a case-study, specifically the southeast area, which contains at the same time the most vulnerable and potential areas.
The research includes a reflection about the Spanish Urban Agenda 2019 (AUE2019), a transversal urban guide to address the challenges of the Anthropocene age.
The Madrid/AUE2019 space is located at the “Productive Villa” in cooperation with Brussels and Vienna, showcasing the circular and productive city in the European arena. A dialogue between villa-space and the display-concept. Madrid /AUE2019 is “the salon,” with its pictures on the wall and the great table as common ground. A living room to read the book, watch the video and share with the other cities.