scholarly journals Creative Territories: Exploring Territorialisation in Shared Transient Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jeanette Trewin
Keyword(s):  
Design Strategy ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Space Occupation ◽  
The Way

<p>The physical spaces we occupy and inhabit are continuously changing and evolving, they are becoming increasingly transient. In response, this research is interested in learning how people occupy and inhabit transient space. Many of the spaces we occupy are affected by invisible systems controlling the amount of time we spend inside a space, and how we occupy a space. Through the study of spatial territorialisation [the creation and inhabitation of territory] this research looks at developing an understanding of behaviours and acts of territorialising in space to understand how transient space is occupied.   This research looks at tertiary students as an example of people who inhabit transient spaces. Through a series of different observational experiments, students’ territories are studied to understand how they may be created and inhabited. Different techniques such as space occupation, accumulation of objects, and comfort enhancements are some of the findings of the way people have inhabited space. This thesis is interested in using this understanding of space inhabitation, learned through the different acts of territorialising, to explore how the way we design spaces might be informed from this.   A final design strategy is proposed that uses the master’s studio at the Victoria University, Faculty of Architecture and Design as a site. The final design proposal uses research gathered through creative territory experiments by using installation as a tool for testing individual and communal responses to territorialising. The overall design strategy is a series of responses to the current acts of territorialising and spatial occupation occurring in the studio. The design encourages the good habits occurring in the studio such as leaving the studio for a break, and disrupts the less healthy habits, such as the permanent claiming of shared territory.</p>

scholarly journals Creative Territories: Exploring Territorialisation in Shared Transient Spaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jeanette Trewin
Keyword(s):  
Design Strategy ◽  
Overall Design ◽  
Healthy Habits ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
Design Proposal ◽  
Physical Spaces ◽  
Space Occupation ◽  
The Way

<p>The physical spaces we occupy and inhabit are continuously changing and evolving, they are becoming increasingly transient. In response, this research is interested in learning how people occupy and inhabit transient space. Many of the spaces we occupy are affected by invisible systems controlling the amount of time we spend inside a space, and how we occupy a space. Through the study of spatial territorialisation [the creation and inhabitation of territory] this research looks at developing an understanding of behaviours and acts of territorialising in space to understand how transient space is occupied.   This research looks at tertiary students as an example of people who inhabit transient spaces. Through a series of different observational experiments, students’ territories are studied to understand how they may be created and inhabited. Different techniques such as space occupation, accumulation of objects, and comfort enhancements are some of the findings of the way people have inhabited space. This thesis is interested in using this understanding of space inhabitation, learned through the different acts of territorialising, to explore how the way we design spaces might be informed from this.   A final design strategy is proposed that uses the master’s studio at the Victoria University, Faculty of Architecture and Design as a site. The final design proposal uses research gathered through creative territory experiments by using installation as a tool for testing individual and communal responses to territorialising. The overall design strategy is a series of responses to the current acts of territorialising and spatial occupation occurring in the studio. The design encourages the good habits occurring in the studio such as leaving the studio for a break, and disrupts the less healthy habits, such as the permanent claiming of shared territory.</p>

scholarly journals A Measured Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Logan Swney
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Good Figure ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Big Box ◽  
A Site ◽  
Design Proposal

<p>The supply of goods to large numbers of consumers results in large, standardised buildings. The typically introverted designs of these buildings reject context and difference in favour of efficiency and standardisation. Secondly, the prioritisation of vehicles over pedestrians often results in second rate public space. Big box retail (BBR) is the epitome of an architecture driven by efficiency, often resulting in a disconnect between architecture and place. This disconnect is amplified in ‘environments of natural beauty’ where the deployed typology results in an inert architecture that withdraws from, rather than engages with, its surrounding environment.  What strategies can be utilised in the development of a site-specific BBR, which engages architecture and place avoiding isolation on the town’s periphery? And, how can this car-centric architecture be modified to contribute to the public realm, enhancing rather than detracting from the surrounding context?  This inquiry is tested through design-led research: firstly the thesis explores the development of a design proposal for Wanaka (idyllically sited on the southern shore of Lake Wanaka with the Southern Alps forming the horizon). A critical reflection on this site-specific design enables a broader discursive discussion about architectural figure. The first chapter presents a design for central Wanaka. The iterative design process, producing and then critiquing form models (physical and computer), enables the project to comment on the BBR typology. The second chapter discusses the project through the lens of architectural figure, situating the project within the discipline and enabling a broader discussion of the qualities of the project. The third chapter discusses the idea of ‘tightness’. The idea of ‘tightness’ emerges from the design/critical-reflection, enabling a discussion of ‘tight’ vs. ‘loose’ architecture and positioning the design within the discipline.  The notion of a tight relationship between form and programme, discussed through a critical reflection on the final design, enables a further discussion and conclusion. This discussion develops from Leon Battista Alberti’s idea of Beauty. Emerging from the design discussion, Ron Witte’s notion of ‘good figure’ and Patrik Schumacher’s concept of ‘Elegance’ enable a development of these ideas. The outcome is an architectural ‘tightness’. ‘Tightness’ offers one potential way that architecture can contribute in the creation of urban spaces through an engagement with the surrounding environment.</p>

scholarly journals A Measured Approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Logan Swney
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Natural Beauty ◽  
Good Figure ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Big Box ◽  
A Site ◽  
Design Proposal

<p>The supply of goods to large numbers of consumers results in large, standardised buildings. The typically introverted designs of these buildings reject context and difference in favour of efficiency and standardisation. Secondly, the prioritisation of vehicles over pedestrians often results in second rate public space. Big box retail (BBR) is the epitome of an architecture driven by efficiency, often resulting in a disconnect between architecture and place. This disconnect is amplified in ‘environments of natural beauty’ where the deployed typology results in an inert architecture that withdraws from, rather than engages with, its surrounding environment.  What strategies can be utilised in the development of a site-specific BBR, which engages architecture and place avoiding isolation on the town’s periphery? And, how can this car-centric architecture be modified to contribute to the public realm, enhancing rather than detracting from the surrounding context?  This inquiry is tested through design-led research: firstly the thesis explores the development of a design proposal for Wanaka (idyllically sited on the southern shore of Lake Wanaka with the Southern Alps forming the horizon). A critical reflection on this site-specific design enables a broader discursive discussion about architectural figure. The first chapter presents a design for central Wanaka. The iterative design process, producing and then critiquing form models (physical and computer), enables the project to comment on the BBR typology. The second chapter discusses the project through the lens of architectural figure, situating the project within the discipline and enabling a broader discussion of the qualities of the project. The third chapter discusses the idea of ‘tightness’. The idea of ‘tightness’ emerges from the design/critical-reflection, enabling a discussion of ‘tight’ vs. ‘loose’ architecture and positioning the design within the discipline.  The notion of a tight relationship between form and programme, discussed through a critical reflection on the final design, enables a further discussion and conclusion. This discussion develops from Leon Battista Alberti’s idea of Beauty. Emerging from the design discussion, Ron Witte’s notion of ‘good figure’ and Patrik Schumacher’s concept of ‘Elegance’ enable a development of these ideas. The outcome is an architectural ‘tightness’. ‘Tightness’ offers one potential way that architecture can contribute in the creation of urban spaces through an engagement with the surrounding environment.</p>

‘Yr Beast’: Gender Parrhesia and Punk Trans Womanhoods

2021 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Jay Szpilka
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Trans Women ◽  
A Site ◽  
Significant Attention ◽  
The Way

While the subject of women’s activity in historical and contemporary punk scenes has attracted significant attention, the presence of trans women in punk has received comparatively little research, in spite of their increasing visibility and long history in punk. This article examines the conditions for trans women’s entrance in punk and the challenges and opportunities that it offers for their self-assertion. By linking Michel Foucault’s notion of parrhesia with the way trans women in punk do their gender, an attempt is made at showing how the embodied experience of a trans woman making herself heard from the punk stage can serve as a site of ‘gender pluralism’.

scholarly journals Architecture of memory

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohra Akbari
Keyword(s):  
Collective Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Successive Change ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

Buildings and city forms are restructured and reused through time in response to evolving contexts, with each successive change leaving traces of the past that accumulate as layers. Collective knowledge and memory are strongly tied to these artifacts, which provide the depth and continuity necessary for the affirmation of identity. Dramatic changes in the contemporary city have prompted a reconsideration of the way architecture adapts, and highlights the need for a creative approach to change and advancement. A successful approach would meaningfully engage the past and memory to record and transmit vital aspects of culture and history while simultaneously using them to inform future actions. The palimpsest as an evolving record provides a productive framework for this kind of transformation, and uncovers the tangible and intangible layers of a site to protect and project the future layers.

scholarly journals Disrupting the Digital: An Architecture of Parts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mollie Claypool ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Digital Fabrication ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Housing Crisis ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
The Way

The paper ascribes to a belief that architecture should be wholly digital – from the scale of the micron and particle to the brick, beam and building, from design to fabrication or construction. This embodies a fundamental and disruptive shift in architecture and design thinking that is unique to the project images included, enabling design to become more inclusive, participatory and open-source. Architecture that is wholly digital requires a radical rethinking of existing design and building practices. Thes projects described in this paper each develops a set of parts in relationship to a specific digital fabrication technology. These parts are defined as open-ended, universal and versatile building blocks, with a digital logic of connectivity. Each physical part has a malefemale connection which is the equivalent of the 0 and 1 in digital data. The design possibilities – or the way that parts can combine and aggregate – can be defined by the geometry and therefore, design agency, of the piece itself. This discrete method advances a theoretical argument about the nature of digital design as needing to be fundamentally discrete, and at the same time responding to ideas coming from open-source, distributed modes methods of production. Furthermore it responds to today’s housing crisis, providing for a more democratic and equitable framework for the production of housing. To think of architecture as wholly digital is to substantially disrupt the way that we think about design, authorship, ownership and process, as well as the building technologies and practices we use in contemporary architectural production.

scholarly journals Branding Stratford: Social Representation and the Re-making of Place

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Desiderio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Regeneration ◽  
Social Representation ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Dialectical Process ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

As part of the societal world, architecture and urban space do not have any ‘objective’ quality. They are representations. Their meaning is produced through the negotiation and interaction of individuals, groups and classes. Yet, such ‘subjective’ meanings do have a ‘material’ relevance, as they reflect a dialectical process between the functions, forms, ownership and practices of space. They reveal construal and construction: the way in which architectural spaces are represented on the one hand, and the way in which they are physically constructed and used on the other. Nowhere does this become more evident in our current society than in the arguments around urban renewal and regeneration. The Westfield Stratford City is a typical example. Part of the vast process of the urban regeneration of East London prompted by London 2012 Olympic Games, Westfield is a massive complex of luxury shops, restaurants, bars and five star hotels. It is seen by investors and local and national political authorities as capable of transforming Stratford into a site for shopping, tourism and leisure. It does this in numerous ways, one of which involves reconfiguring the image of the region through the press and media - through visual imagery and linguistic manipulations that promote a neoliberal agenda of gentrification that simultaneously devalue the existent societal structures and communities in the area. This paper offers a Critical Discourse Analysis of the manipulation of Stratford’s image by government, business and the media and suggests that the purely financially motivated misrepresentation it reveals, is typical of the urban regeneration ethos at work across the developed world today.

Technosocial Space

2010 ◽  
pp. 54-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sofie Laegran
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Place And Space ◽  
Identity Markers ◽  
A Site ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way ◽  
Internet Cafes

The chapter is based on a study of Internet cafés in Norway, and interrogates the way space and place is produced in interconnections between people and technology in the Internet café. Drawing on actornetwork theory and practice-oriented theories of place and space, the Internet café is understood as technosocial spaces producing connections between people and places at different levels. Firstly, the Internet café can be understood as a hybrid, a site where users and technologies as well as space are coconstructed in entwined processes where gender, as well as other identity markers, are central in the way the technology, as well as the cafés, develop and are understood. The next level looks at the production of Internet cafés as technosocial spaces. Despite being perceived as an “urban” and “global” phenomenon, Internet cafés are configured based on local circumstances, in urban as well as rural communities. Differing images of what the cafés want to achieve, as well as material constrains, are at play in this process. Finally, the chapter shows how Internet cafés are places of connections, producing space beyond the walls of the café, linking the local into a translocal sphere.

‘Aire that once was breath’

2018 ◽  
pp. 62-73
Author(s):  
Rachel White
Keyword(s):  
English Poetry ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

In his Defence of Poesie (c.1579) Sidney discusses the caesura or ‘breathing place’ as one of the structures of English poetry, a moment of poetic control over form that contributes to the composition as an imitation of life. However, the nature of breath is inherently ephemeral and thus makes the ‘breathing place’ a site of instability and the caesura a mark that can expand beyond its limits and embody the reader. For Greville, the caesura becomes more than a poetic device but a space in which to explore grief. There is a tangible difference in the way Greville uses caesurae and breathing places in Caelica (pub. 1633) after Sidney’s death, and in ‘Silence augmenteth grief’ (pub. 1593) as the breathing place becomes a space in which to express grief.

scholarly journals FRANÇOIS MITTERRAND AND THE GRAY ZONE OF VICHY

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh McDonnell
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Gray Zone ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
Vichy Regime ◽  
Indirect Facilitation ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Way

This article examines the 1994–1995 controversy surrounding President François Mitterrand’s past involvement with Vichy France through the concept of “the gray zone.” Differing from Primo Levi’s gray zone, it refers here to the language that emerged in France to account for the previously neglected complicity of bystanders and beneficiaries and the indirect facilitation of the injustices of the Vichy regime. The affair serves as a site for exploring the nuances and inflections of this concept of the gray zone—both in the way it was used to indict those accused of complicity with Vichy, and as a means for those, like Mitterrand, who defended themselves by using the language of grayness. Paying attention to these invocations of the gray zone at this historical conjuncture allows us to understand the logic and stakes of both the criticisms of Mitterrand and his responses to them, particularly in terms of contemporaneous understandings of republicanism and human rights.

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