LES NOUVELLES THÉÂTRALITÉS DE L’ESPACE PUBLIC ET L’IMAGE DE LA VILLE « Recherches et actions au sein de la ville de Jijel

Abstract

This work is an attempt to define, understand, classify and analyse the urban theatricalities of the city of Jijel. With the intention of bringing contemporary readings and interpretations to the multiple dimensions of public space, this research is intended to be a prolegomena of reflections on urban space as a scene transcribing the daily life. The city and its public spaces are by that a theatre of urban comedy, allowing the new actors, spectators, managers and directors of the urban fabric to play their roles consciously or unconsciously. It is through scenic readings, content analysis, and research interviews that the socio-spatial maps of this city will be presented, revisited and reinterpreted, revealing the changes of the sprawling city of on one side, and the deep dimensions of the historical-social weight on the other. The superposition of the “physical maps” and “socio-historical maps” then finds an echo under the symphony of new urban theatricalities, transforming in their passages the image of the urban landscape and of the city in general.