Taking care of public space

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meike Schalk ◽  
Apolonija Sustersic
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The Public ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The Common ◽  
International Festival ◽  
Taking Care

Through an examination of the public art project Garden Service, in this text we explore possibilities of and obstacles to practices of agency. The project was commissioned by the art institution The Common Guild in Edinburgh for the exhibition Jardins Publics, which took place in connection with the Edinburgh International Festival in summer 2007. It was based on the participation of a community and the communication between different actors, from institutions and associations to individual local residents, communication which included solving conflicts as well as building partnerships.

scholarly journals Doing Public Theology in African Christianity: A Reflection on Communiques by Churches in Ghana

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-200
Author(s):  
Kwabena Opuni-Frimpong
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Public Theology ◽  
The Public ◽  
African Christianity ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Public Concerns

Faith in public life can be associated with Christianity in Ghana from the days of the early Western missionaries. Christian faith perspectives on matters of public concerns however, assumed a wider scope with the practice of regular issuance of communiques to governments and the people of Ghana by the churches. Christian ministry is expected to be holistic. A holistic approach in Christian ministry is considered to lead to the holistic development of the nation for the common good and the glory of God. Church leaders subsequently, bring their faith perspectives to matters of public concerns as a ministerial mandate to be in pilgrimage with the people. The study is a reflection on how the churches’ communiques are done and the factors that make the communiques theological in the public space. It further seeks to identify the contribution of the construction of communiques to public theology in Christianity in Ghana. The study as qualitative, examines both available primary and secondary sources. Copies of communiques of some selected churches, ecumenical bodies and joint communiques by ecumenical bodies are examined to appreciate insights of communiques by the churches. The study seeks to make a contribution to the theological construction of public theologies in Ghana and African Christianity. KEYWORDS: Public Theology, African Christianity, Communique, Common Good

Public Space, Common Space, and the Spaces In–Between: A Case Study of Philadelphia's LOVE Park

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 676-703
Author(s):  
Luke M. Cianciotto
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
General Public ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Space ◽  
The Common

This study concerns the struggle for Philadelphia's LOVE Park, which involved the general public and its functionaries on one side and skateboarders on the other. This paper argues LOVE Park was one place composed of two distinct spaces: the public space the public engendered and the common space the skateboarders produced. This case demonstrates that public and common space must be understood as distinct, for they entail different understandings of publicly accessible space. Additionally, public and common spaces often exist simultaneously as “public–common spaces,” which emphasizes how they reciprocally shape one another. This sheds light on the emergence of “anti–common public space,” which is evident in LOVE Park's 2016 redesign. This concept considers how common spaces are increasingly negated in public spaces. The introduction of common space to the study of public spaces is significant as it allows for more nuanced understandings of transformations in the urban landscape.

scholarly journals Exhibitions for Stalin’s anniversaries: peculiarities of structuring a biographical narrative

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Irina Rutsinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Art Exhibitions ◽  
Visual Texts ◽  
Narrative Methods ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Common ◽  
Extensive Body

In 1939 and 1949 the museums and exhibit halls of the large and small Soviet cities held dozens of art exhibitions dedicated to the anniversaries of Stalin. Strictly aligned to the text of his canonized biography, they became an important element of jubilee celebrations, and simultaneously, a distinct culmination of visual representations of the chieftain, overcrowding the public space of every city of the country. The exhibitions resumed the results and outlined the future paths of development of the pictorial art of Staliniana. The article makes an attempt to review the common grounds the united the anniversary expositions, regardless their scale, presentability and venue. Special attention is given to correlation between verbal and visual texts, logics of structuring of a biographical narrative, methods of organization of dialogue with the audience, as well as forms of “dictate” over the creative process of Soviet artists. The source for this research became an extensive body of documents: brochures, catalogues, guides that accompanied such exhibitions and reflected their concept, logics, structure and communication objectives.  

scholarly journals KEDUDUKAN PEREMPUAN DALAM PERKAWINAN (Analisis UU RI. No. 1 tahun 1974 Tentang Posisi Perempuan)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-312
Author(s):  
Saidah Saidah
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Islamic Marriage ◽  
Taking Care

This paper attempts to highlight the existence of Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage which is gender biased. The position of the husband as the head of the household (leader) has the responsibility of living for his family, so that their duty is in the public sphere while the wife is a housewife serving in the domestic sphere, taking care of the child and husband, which is considered to imprison women's space into the public space. The position of women in Islamic marriage law can be seen on several sides, ie women in the Qur'an and Hadith, in history and in the book of fiqh.

scholarly journals KEDUDUKAN PEREMPUAN DALAM PERKAWINAN (Analisis UU RI. No. 1 tahun 1974 Tentang Posisi Perempuan)

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 292-312
Author(s):  
Saidah Saidah
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Marriage Law ◽  
Domestic Sphere ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Islamic Marriage ◽  
Taking Care

This paper attempts to highlight the existence of Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage which is gender biased. The position of the husband as the head of the household (leader) has the responsibility of living for his family, so that their duty is in the public sphere while the wife is a housewife serving in the domestic sphere, taking care of the child and husband, which is considered to imprison women's space into the public space. The position of women in Islamic marriage law can be seen on several sides, ie women in the Qur'an and Hadith, in history and in the book of fiqh.

scholarly journals RUANG PUBLIK DAN SENI PUBLIK

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-329
Author(s):  
Rahmat Jabaril
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Public Art ◽  
The Public ◽  
Aesthetic Form

Public Space and Public art, are two different senses. Public Space is a space that can be spread out because of the existence of a community that has the imagination that engages in it. Society is created and creates public space as a real democratic space. This is because, every actor in it interferes with imagination, and ideas that make that space continue to be spread out as public space. Public art is unconstitutional, so its beauty is a dynamic process. In that, then the public space and the art of public are compounds which have no meaning. Often it is not revealed that what we see on the streets, for example, provides reflective space and gives inspiration to the street performers. Public art, public space and public actors will make public dynamics an aesthetic form.

scholarly journals Ruptured space and spatial estrangement: (Un)making of public space in Kathmandu

Urban Studies ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 55 (12) ◽  
pp. 2780-2800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urmi Sengupta
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
The Public ◽  
Common Notion ◽  
The Common ◽  
The City

Public space is increasingly recognised to be central to spatial discourse of cities. A city’s urbanism is displayed in public spaces, representing a myriad of complex socio-cultural, economic and democratic practices of everyday life. In cities of the Global South, especially those with nascent democracies, different values attached to a space by various actors – both material and symbolic – frame the contestation, making the physical space a normative instrument for contestation. Tundikhel, once believed to be the largest open space in Asia, is an important part of Kathmandu’s urbanism, which has witnessed two civil wars popularly known as Jana Andolans, and the subsequent political upheavals, to emerge as the symbolic meeting point of the city, democracy, and its people. The paper argues that the confluence of the three modalities of power – institutionalisation, militarisation and informalisation – has underpinned its historical transformation, resulting in what I call ‘urban rupturing’: a process of (un)making of public space, through physical and symbolic fragmentation and spatial estrangement. The paper contends that unlike the common notion that public spaces such as Tundikhel are quintessentially public, hypocrisy is inherent to the ‘publicness’ agenda of the state and the institutional machinery in Kathmandu. It is an urban condition that not only maligns the public space agenda but also creeps into other spheres of urban development.

Blogs and the Art of Dying

2017 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yvonne Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Severe Disease ◽  
Modern Approach ◽  
Affective Communication ◽  
Affective Labor ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Common ◽  
Art Of Dying ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Late Modern

In recent years, the common and mundane dying has begun to take place in the public space of the Internet. Among the blogs about food, fashion, travel, and other joyful aspects of life, blogs about severe disease and dying have appeared. The aim of this article is to describe some characteristic features of a sample of cancer blogs and to discuss them in the light of Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of the rationalization of death in modernity and theories about networked media, especially the theories about “affective labor” and “ambient intimacy” by McCosker, Darcy, and Pfister. It will then be argued that an affective communication is performed in and through these cancer blogs, where not only language but also the deficiencies of language—and what is called shared ineffability—might be valuable and meaningful (although not unproblematic) as part of a late modern approach to death, and in the practicing of the art of dying.

Temporary Art Platform and the Reconfiguration of the Public Space in Beirut

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Carlos Garrido Castellano
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Art Activism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Civic Agency

Abstract The main objective of this article is to understand the ways in which Lebanese artists are dealing with issues of normativity and legibility while operating in public spaces. By looking at the work developed by Temporary Art Platform (TAP) during the last ten years, I argue that public art has been crucial in the production of alternative understandings of civic agency and the public space. Simultaneously, by looking at A Few Things You Need to Know When Creating an Art Project in a Public Space in Lebanon, a toolkit designed by TAP in 2014, I intend to problematize the lexicon and strategies that are usually associated with understanding art activism, both as forcefully contextual and provisional.

scholarly journals URBAN CORRIDOR AS A PUBLIC SPACE CASE STUDY : CORRIDOR PANTAI LOSARI STREET, MAKASSAR CITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Sriany Ersina
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Public Place ◽  
The Public ◽  
Plural Society ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Space Case ◽  
Urban Corridor

Abstrak_ An ideal public space should be a common ground, open and accessible for all including for people with disabilities. However in fact, along the beach Losari in Makassar City have inaccessible public space. Ideally, the various people who use and do interaction in the public space should be accommodated in the space. The Potential for conflict exist whenever and wherever people contact. Conflict is natural, normal and inevitable whenever people interact together. The disagreement and the difference on values conflict can be indicated by the unavoidable situation in human relationship. Therefore, defining the difference and strategy to manage the conflict in public space will be the focus of the paper. A Synergy, compromise, accommodative action and using a power are among others of the strategy to manage conflict to create a built environment towards an open and accessible public place. A Public space is the common ground where people carry out the functional and ritual activities that bind a community, whether in the normal routines of daily life or in periodic festivities [3] Urban Corridors that deals with mostly public space should serve the public at large, the plural society and the variety of human behavior.Keywords : Public Space; Conflict in Public Place; Urban Corridor.

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