The project seeks to describe the transformation in the structure of post-industrial cities in decline, understood as those whose sociocultural organization would be affected after the reduction or cessation of their industry. In this way, there is a palpable spatial confusion in them, increased by obsolescence and emptiness.

This open permeability characterizes its urban landscape, constituting a space of indefinition: heterotopia. A state in which the concept of place dematerializes into a constellation of relationships, processes and information.

Through visual and sound recording, this research focuses on the urban landscape of Avilés, where a critical duplicity appears between the image of overcoming its old factory character, built through ludic-cultural strategies, and a “counterimage” of decadence that favors indeterminacy. Starting from this double condition – ‘artificial’ and ‘heterotopic’ simultaneously – is how we understand the critical situation of the contemporary landscape. The tension between the image promoted and the one perceptible in situ has repercussions on the urban space, suffering from constant volatility – just like the condition of the post-industrial era itself.