Javier M. Reguera. Everything I’ve seen in the world looks like you {Project}. 01Skate 2016-2019 *2025 {Serie}

Skateboarding is characterized as a transgressive activity that challenges the regulations imposed on urban space. Skateboarders demonstrate an awareness of the built environment and perceive the city and its physical elements in ways different from non skaters. Through their practice of skateboarding, they transform some of the designated functions of architecture into new ones. Studies that focus on transgression further argue that the distinction of «in» and «out» for defining transgression in public space is too simple because skateboarding in one place may be considered more acceptable than in other places.

Spaces that young skateboarders prefer are those that offer accessibility, sociability, compatibility, and opportunities for tricks. Skaters prefer the natural environment of the street over purposely built spaces. And yet the reasons for this preference and an exact distinction between skating in the natural environment and in the purposely designed envi-ronment are not clearly addressed.

Chihsin Chiu. «Street and Park Skateboarding in New York City Public Space», Space and culture Vol. 12 No. 1, February 2009