A Common Place is an exploration of the subjective processes of territorialization that take place in the margins and in the borders that mark the limit and the division between the Federal Capital and the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am interested in investigating the figure of margin as a space of social construction in which, from human actions, that portion of land is given meaning and converted into the territory without calculated rational planning; it is given through improvisation, urgency, dispute and randomness.

I intend to investigate the figure of this margin as a zone of apparent uncertainty. Neglected places from the centrality in the territorial construction where emancipatory proposals arise for the reconfiguration of these landscapes from the margins and the periphery towards the dividing line. Moving the limits, making them variable, transient, relative.

Territories are socially constructed spaces. In this particular case, this elaboration is gestated and developed in the cleavage of the political-cartographic impositions through the permanence in these places, which little by little are becoming territory. For in this intermediate zone bordering on the monolithic rigidity of the imposed lines, organic actions are articulated that have more to do with the pulse and live rhythm of these enclaves than with the impassive mortuary of a political division.

Why does a sector start or end in one place and not in another? Why do they define themselves with cold measurements without contemplating the living processes of these territorial constructions? Are not the appropriations of those who convert this margin into territory more likely and representative than political determinations with appropriation ends?

The map is not the territory, it is an interesting representation with specific purposes: the utilitarian appropriation of the land. And physical space is not constant material data. However, with calculated insistence, it is about eradicating the experience of vivid perception in these areas. The boundaries, boundaries and dividing lines operate to make these spaces become abstract elements and are not perceived from subjectivity to consciousness. That is territories without experience. That is why subjective territorialization actions are the necessary alternatives to structural impositions. To be able to imagine and above all make concrete those experiences of and in new territories.