This article explores what role did the Tahrir
Square played for the Egyptian revolution of 2011. A question that has risen the
last years is about the correlation between Internet activism on social forums
and blogs and the activism in the streets of our cities. The question if the
Egyptian revolution was a “revolution 2.0” was widely spread throughout news
media. There is no doubt that the social forums etc. on the Internet played a
part in the revolutionary events, but what about the places where people
actually gathered and fought? In order to analyze the space of the revolution
on the Tahrir Square I will use Henri Lefebvre’s theories about the production
of space.
Written in April 2012 in a seminar with Brent Patterson at Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris.
The theoretical seminar was about utopies, not only strictly architectural ones.
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