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Graffiti is, by its nature, an agent of architecture and of urban space transformation and can positively interfere on the affective and symbolic aspects of the living space. In the case of a problematic neighbourhood, for which was urgent to find solutions that effectively solved the existing social problems, and the bad image it presented outside, was, among other initiatives, created a street urban art gallery with the organization of an art Festival. The presence of a large number of graffiti pieces clearly pr...

With the publication, in 1975, of Les objects fractals: Forme hasard et dimension, Benoit Mandelbrot created the foundations of a new geometry that, since then, plays a crucial role in the description of natural and irregular shapes. Free from the strict understanding of form and space, as defined by its Cartesian dimensions, or strictly based on Euclid's postulates and common notions, this new geometry provides new languages, new concepts, new techniques and new instruments of reflection. Through the design of sp...