A Survey into the World of Artificial Paradises

As previous years, Dip 5 will continue with the redefinition of what was formerly known as public space, trying to reactivate the physical realm of the common, nowadays kidnapped by economic and political agents. The origin of the word paradise gets back to ancient Persia, and to the Avestian term pairi-daêza, composed by pairi, "around" and diz "to construct", literally enclosed space, that was coined to refer to the first Persian Gardens, such as Pasargadae, the earliest known example of chahar bagh. The shift of its meaning to the Garden of Eden comes from the use of the Greek word parádeisos to translate "garden" -gan or pardesfrom the Hebrew. In this unattainable place of ideal conditions -that the medieval Mystics believed that actually existed in the form of an island somewhere there, where the Sun risesthe enjoyment comes from the experience of a particular space and a perfect weather.