This Negro Thoroughfare

2018 ◽  
pp. 116-148
Author(s):  
Ryan A. Quintana
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Everyday

This chapter examines the everyday spatial practices of enslaved Carolinians, particularly focusing on the Lowcountry. It closely illuminates the varied landscapes, communities, and politics that such daily practices produced and maintained, demonstrating that black South Carolinians took advantage of their requisite movement and the demands of the plantation enterprise to stake their own claims to South Carolina’s territory.

scholarly journals The Nourishing Art

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Jane Lawrence ◽  
Rachel Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
First Year ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Detailed Application

Cooking is regarded as one of the most basic characteristics of civilised existence, almost as critical as shelter in defining and reading the human condition. Frascari (2002) used cooking as an analogy for design suggesting that ‘to build and cook are a necessity, but to build and cook intelligently is the chief obligation of architecture and cuisine’ (p. 3). What is it about this ordinary activity that invites comparison? Is it that the everyday acts of cooking are primary generators of spatial practices and material culture? Or is it that the production of food bears numerous parallels with the production of built space – each following a recipe or plan to manipulate elements into an entity definitively judged by the physical senses? This paper builds upon a companion work titled, ‘Eating Australian Architecture’ (Hurst & Lawrence, 2003), which investigated a pedagogical approach based on parallels between food and design for teaching first year architectural students. In this paper, the focus is on a detailed application of this method to typological analyses of contemporary domestic architecture. It uses three examples of influential Australian design practices, selecting from each a paradigm with which they are associated. Food metaphors of raw, medium and well- done are used to explore emergent characteristics and experiential qualities within the current architectural climate. The apparent extremes between raw and cooked, like those between excess and austerity, are re-evaluated not as simple oppositions or measures of success, but as equally rich modes of approach to design. The argument is made for gastronomy as a persuasive interrogatory tool for the sensory and holistic examination of the built environment.

Researching young people’s perceptions and experiences of place

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday World ◽  
People’S Perceptions

This chapter presents an overview and reflection of the range of methods involved in researching teenagers’ spatial practices in a divided city. The research draws on the ‘new sociology of childhood’ as its theoretical framework. This involves seeing young people as competent social actors in their own right. It involves recognising that young people do not simply reflect adult assumptions about the everyday world but develop their own ways of seeing and knowing. It prioritises young people’s points of views and uses methodologies which encourage young people’s voices to be heard. The study utilised a range of methods including questionnaires, focus group discussions, essays and photo prompts and the chapter outlines how each method contributed to the aims and objectives of the research.

scholarly journals Embodied spatial practices and everyday organization: The work of tour guides and their audiences

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Best ◽  
Jon Hindmarsh
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Tour Guides ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Ongoing Work ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Historic House ◽  
Interactional Perspective ◽  
Guided Tours

This article introduces an interactional perspective to the analysis of organizational space. The study is based on the analysis of over 100 hours of video recordings of guided tours undertaken within two sites (an historic house and a world-famous museum), coupled with interviews and field observations. The analysis is informed by ethnomethodology and conversation analysis in order to focus on the everyday organization of these tours, and the lived experience of inhabiting museum spaces. We use an interactional lens to unpack the ‘embodied spatial practices’ critical to the work of tour guides and their audiences, which reveals how the sense and significance of the workspace emerges moment to moment, and in relation to the ongoing work at hand. As a result, for those with an interest in organizational space, the article introduces a novel perspective, and methods, to highlight the dynamic and interactional production of workspaces. Additionally, for those with an interest in practice, the article demonstrates the fundamental import of taking spatial arrangements seriously when analysing the organization of work.

scholarly journals Ideał podmiejskiego zamieszkiwania. Koncepcje deweloperów a praktyki przestrzenne mieszkańców na przykładzie wybranych osiedli strefy podmiejskiej Wrocławia

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Kajdanek
Keyword(s):  
Social Meaning ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Spatial Resources ◽  
Housing Estates

The article analyses the process by which the space of selected suburban housing estates acquires a social meaning. This process is an effect of the interaction of two forces: the developers’ discourse affecting the new inhabitants and the actual spatial practice of the latter that develops in the course of their residence. The author has analysed the content of advertising and information material concerning new suburban housing estates, and researched how the key themes of the developers’ discourse are reconstructed in the everyday spatial practices of the inhabitants. The analysis shows that the social ideal of living in the suburbs differs from the vision presented by the developers’ discourse and the practice of such residence depends on different social and spatial resources available in a given area.

Place and identity

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Relative Lack ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Place And Identity

This chapter outlines the importance of space and place in ‘post conflict’ Belfast by critically unpacking how territory and division remain important for certain groups. Through outlining important links between place and identity, the book calls into question Northern Ireland’s status as one of the most successful ‘post conflict’ societies in the world. This sets the scene for the book’s primary purpose which is to illuminate the everyday spatial practices of teenagers who grow up in divided localities. By redressing the relative lack of research on the lives of young people who grow up in estranged and declining communities, the book illuminates what young people’s everyday spatial movements can tell us about the visible and invisible borders of politically contested cities.

scholarly journals „Multi-culti“ vs. ”another cell phone store“ – Changing ethnic, social, and commercial diversities in Berlin-Neukölln.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Anna Steigemann
Keyword(s):  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Store

Based on an extensive ethnography of the economic and social life in Berlin-Neukölln, the paper asks how a changing demographic and social structure affects the social life but also the urban renewal on two iconic but contested streets - “the Arab street” Sonnenallee and adjacent Karl-Marx-Straße. The effects of migration - and particularly of the more recent refugee migration - to Berlin are explored through the reshaping and diversification processes of the physical and social spaces of the two streets and their businesses. In detail, the paper illuminates the changing ordinary everyday interactions and social and spatial practices in and around local shops and gastronomic facilities and argues that it is the interactions in and around certain shops and businesses that contribute to the everyday practice of urban diversity. The paper further reveals that regardless of the place-and community-making of the local store owners and staff therein, the local urban renewal and regeneration actors have a very different understanding of these spaces and their operators and also aim for a different kind of new “diversity”. The paper thus concludes by also showing how these actors frame and depict the increasingly ethnically diverse businesses on the two streets in the course of urban renewal, including a critical discussion of their perceptions and concrete practices as in contrast to the ethnically diverse business peoples’ perceptions and placemaking practices that often also represent homemaking practices.

Lived citizenship between the sandpit and deportation: Young children’s spaces for agency, play and belonging in collective accommodation for refugees

Childhood ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-172
Author(s):  
Sarah Fichtner ◽  
Hoa Mai Trần
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Relational Agency ◽  
Study Material ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Physical Spaces

Based on 8 months of ethnographic research, this article focuses on the everyday spatial practices of young children living in collective accommodation for refugees in Berlin. We examine how physical spaces and social relationships are appropriated, affecting the relational agency of children in this restrictive context. Using case study material from three families with limited prospects of permanent residence, we discuss the children’s lived citizenship as enacted – not only symbolically – between the sandpit (as a space for children to act and play as a child) and deportation (as an extreme limit for enacting agency related to refugee status).

scholarly journals The lived city: everyday experiences, urban scenarios, and topological networks

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Lindón
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The City ◽  
Urban Territory

Abstract. The general subject of this text is the contemporary city, understood as a lived territory: it develops a theoretical–methodological approach to the sociospatial construction of urban territory that integrates both the material and the nonmaterial. The sociospatial construction of the lived city is approached via an articulated set of analytical levels. Accordingly, the first part presents the level of the spatial practices and the urban imaginaries that accompany them. The second part integrates the incorporated affectivity that acts and territorializes itself in the everyday life of the city. The third part considers urban scenarios as situational articulations of the subjects of the two previous parts. Individual topological networks are then incorporated as sequences of urban scenarios that integrate the subjects' biography, leading on to the crisscrossing of different topological networks in an approximation of the lived city in all its fragmented, dense, and fluid complexity.

The Architecture of the Ascetic Body

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Lynda Coon
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Classical Counterpart ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Alps ◽  
The Ideal

This chapter argues that the sensory, corporeal, and spatial practices of desert ascetics transmuted into a technique of Christian imperialism in the later Roman Empire. It is divided into two sections: ‘Fortress of the Ascetic Body’ and ‘Spatial Practice of the Ascetic Body’. The first section surveys ways in which the Christian body vanquished its classical counterpart through sensory, material, and spatial techniques. The second part of the chapter applies the corporeal theory established in the first section to build the architecture of the ascetic body, a new direction for scholarship in the field. The essay concludes by suggesting methods through which the material, sensory, and architectural world of late ancient asceticism travelled across the Alps to the monasteries of the early medieval North, where the ideal of the desert became part of the everyday experience of monks.

Video Games and Emotion Regulation

GeroPsych ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 205-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn L. Ossenfort ◽  
Derek M. Isaacowitz
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Video Games ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Media Preferences

Abstract. Research on age differences in media usage has shown that older adults are more likely than younger adults to select positive emotional content. Research on emotional aging has examined whether older adults also seek out positivity in the everyday situations they choose, resulting so far in mixed results. We investigated the emotional choices of different age groups using video games as a more interactive type of affect-laden stimuli. Participants made multiple selections from a group of positive and negative games. Results showed that older adults selected the more positive games, but also reported feeling worse after playing them. Results supplement the literature on positivity in situation selection as well as on older adults’ interactive media preferences.

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