scholarly journals Urban Interiority: Emerging Cultural and Spatial Practices

Interiority ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Paramita Atmodiwirjo ◽  
Yandi Andri Yatmo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Critical Understanding ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Contemporary Practice ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
Spatial Condition

Discourses on the urban interior recently have emerged as a series of provocations and experimentations that highlight the critical understanding of the urban realm from the interiority perspective. In the fast-moving development of modern global cities, the urban interior concept becomes increasingly important. Cities are fast becoming containers for contemporary spatial practice, with urban spaces becoming melting pots of diverse cultures and communities. Viewing urban settings from the interiority perspective allows us to comprehend unique local characters in particular contexts. This issue of Interiority presents a collection of works that illustrate the expanded understanding of the urban interior, especially in relation to cultural and spatial practice in urban contexts. This issue presents multiple perspectives on understanding the urban interior, raising arguments on how its spatial condition could perform as a container of cultural practice, while simultaneously offering possibilities on manoeuvring within the urban interior context through various ways of reading, interpretation and intervention. These perspectives and approaches promise further possibilities to expand our interior architectural practice in responding not only to current contemporary practice, but also to the future of urban inhabitation.

Situating Cultural Politics: Fringe Festivals and the Production of Spaces of Intersubjectivity

1994 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Willems-Braun
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Canadian Theatre ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Intersubjective Field

Canada's fringe festivals are important interventions in the discourses and institutions framing Canadian theatre, leading some to recognize them as sites of a radical cultural politics. Most commentators have placed their attention on performance at these events, but in this paper, the focus is on the manner in which these events reorganize urban spaces into festival spaces, constructing informal discursive arenas within which the interaction of patrons, artists, and organizers is encouraged, and which situates performance, display, and the negotiation of social identities within an intersubjective field less influenced by certain constraints in traditional theatre. What is often overlooked, however, is that these discursive arenas are constructed within, at the same time as they engage, the social and spatial organization of the city, and are therefore marked by certain exclusions and inclusions. By refusing to abstract these festivals, as ‘artistic events’, attention can be paid to their ‘topography’, to explore the relations between cultural practice, social identity, and the organization of the city.

scholarly journals Shared technology making in neoliberal ruins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sung-Yueh Perng
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Open Innovation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Future Possibility ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
The Right

Shared technology making refers to the practices, spaces and events that bear the hope and belief that collaborative and open ways of designing, making and modifying technology can improve our ways of living. Shared technology making in the context of the smart city reinvigorates explorations of the possibility of free, open and collaborative ways of engineering urban spaces, infrastructures and public life. Open innovation events and civic hacking initiatives often encourage members of local communities, residents, or city administrations to participate so that the problems they face and the knowledge they possess can be leveraged to develop innovations from the working (and failure) of urban everyday life and (non-)expert knowledges. However, the incorporation of shared technology making into urban contexts engender concerns around the right to participate in shared technology- and city-making. This paper addresses this issue by suggesting ways to consider both the neoliberal patterning of shared technology making and the patches and gaps that show the future possibility of shared city making. It explores the ways in which shared technology making are organised using hackathons and other hacking initiatives as an example. By providing a hackathon typology and detailed accounts of the experiences of organisers and participants of related events, the paper reconsiders the neoliberalisation of shared technology making. It attends to the multiple, entangled and conflictual relationships that do not follow corporate logic for considering the possibilities of more open and collaborative ways of technology- and city-making.

scholarly journals Principles and modes of new media architecture

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Jelena Brajkovic ◽  
Lidija Djokic
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Scientific Culture ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
Computer Technologies ◽  
Science And Culture ◽  
Contemporary Practice

The contemporary age is marked by the rapidly advanced digital revolution, unstoppable rise of computer technologies and omnipresence of technological advancements in all aspects of everyday life. In the information era, computer technologies have become pervasive, ubiquitous and dominant. Their hybridization with previously present media forms resulted in the emergence of a new and exuberant field of new media and technologies. New media is a hybrid field of computer based technological forms, which are used in contemporary practice, not only as tool, but also as an expressive medium. Because of the complex nature of new media, the field is extremely hybrid, positioned at the intersection of art, science and culture. Its emerged cultural paradigm is scientific culture, in which dominant characteristics are technological art and cultural forms, as well as information and techno society. In this overall context, architecture is not an isolated phenomenon. The new media have influenced the field of architecture too, offering new possibilities, features, design methodologies and principles for conceptualizing and developing architectural space. In architectural practice different modalities of the new media are being used. These modalities initiated the emergence of the field of new media architecture. The distinction of these state-of-the-art types of architectural space, together with the principles and concepts they rely on, were the main focus and main contribution of the research presented in this paper.

Space, Action, and Images

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-94
Author(s):  
Tonio Hölscher
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Space Action ◽  
High Degree

The worlds of ancient Greece and Rome are characterized by a high degree of visuality of their social spaces. A theoretical fundament is laid out by the distinction between experienced and conceptual space, in interrelation with human actions. Fundamental is cultural practice, religious rituals, and political activities in interrelation with public architecture and urban spaces. Social life, as it developed in visually marked spaces, is exemplified in a concentric sequence: civic sanctuaries and agorai/fora, city areas and territories, empires, and liminal zones, comparing different concepts between Greece and Rome.

Postmodern Bricolages

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Igor Krstić
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
Postmodern Thought

This chapter focuses on the 1970s and 1980s and illustrates how some of the most celebrated world cinema directors became profoundly affected by postmodern thought and cultural practice, among them auteurs like Kurosawa, Brocka or Scola, all of whom have approached the slums of their native countries and cities in their films. The author argues that the cultural and architectural practice of bricolage may serve as a key paradigm that subsumes the otherwise quite disparate styles of these directors. Postmodern concepts and aesthetic strategies such as bricolage – and, by extension, intertextuality, intermediality or hybridisation – put the traditional claims of realist and documentary practices in doubt. Instead, postmodern films, like the chapter’s main example Time of the Gypsies (Kusturica 1989), mix what are apparently contradictory notions, such as magic and realism. However, the chapter also discusses other examples of (predominantly ‘Third-Worldist’) filmmakers who have been trying to preserve and recover the historically inherited, but now vehemently questioned (ethical, social and political) concerns of realist and documentary modes to approach their countries’ social problems, but without turning a blind eye towards the new postmodern realities of increasingly consumer-oriented ‘Third World’ cultures.

scholarly journals Contemporary Contextualization: Using Cross-Cultural Practice in Sensitive Contexts

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán Neville
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Local Environments ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
French Case ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Physical Manifestation

As a physical manifestation of political, social, and economic forces, architecture has been affected by globalization in the same ways as other fields. It has succumbed to thecriticismofthehomogenizationofitsproduct,andarchitectscontinuetosearchfor relevance in this new global context. However, as globalization matures in the twentyfirstcentury,sodoestheunderstandingoftheneedforculturalidentity.Asnewcomplex contexts arise, they require a sensitive understanding of the forces in play, in order to continue to create humanistic interventions in the built environment. While some may consider global practice a threat to local environments, given today’s complex conditions, the lines between local and global begin to blur together. Thus, it can be arguedthattrans-nationalpracticeenhancestheabilitytorespondsensitivelytointricate political, social, and urban contexts which are now more common than ever. Two Sino-French case studies are used here to demonstrate this phenomenon; one in China and one in France. Together they show how these forces manifest themselves throughthecross-culturalexchangethatisneededforfuturepractice.Astheprofession moves forward, one can consider that this international sensitivity will be increasingly employed to successfully engage and respond to complex local environments.

Intercultural Communication Challenge

2018 ◽  
pp. 258-273
Author(s):  
Sophia Ra
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Professional Interpreting ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
Communication Challenge

A leader in community interpreting, Australia provides professional interpreting services within its public health system. Healthcare interpreters face various challenges for a variety of reasons, including cultural differences. Existing research on healthcare interpreting focuses on differences between a mainstream culture of healthcare professionals and ethnically diverse cultures of migrant patients. Interpreters are widely regarded as bicultural professionals able to provide cultural information on behalf of patients as necessary or whenever healthcare professionals ask for it. However, research on healthcare interpreting in a globalized era should consider the changing nature of culture. The question of whether the interpreter should be a cultural broker remains controversial. Based on an ethnographic study of healthcare interpreters at a public hospital in Australia, this chapter aims to survey how multiple perspectives on cultural evolution affect healthcare interpreting.

Constructing Community in Higher Education Regardless of Proximity

2015 ◽  
pp. 163-179
Author(s):  
Karina R. Clemmons ◽  
Amanda L. Nolen ◽  
Judith A. Hayn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Online Social Networking ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Global World ◽  
Diverse Cultures

In an increasingly global world where students are increasingly mobile and not bound by the same rules of proximity as before (Beckmann, 2010; Healey, 2008), it becomes critically important to understand how learning can take place and how community can be built through virtual communities. This chapter reports the results of a study that investigated whether preservice and beginning teachers involved in the dialogue of an emergent online social networking community engage in meaningful educational and professionally enriching experiences. The researchers specifically examined how online social networking in teacher education programs addresses issues related to: (1) the isolation students feel while in the field; (2) the lack of community and dialogue among students; (3) the disconnectedness between classroom knowledge and field experiences; (4) the limited reflective practices observed among novice teachers; and (5) the need to appreciate multiple perspectives and diverse cultures.

Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802091883
Author(s):  
Gilly Hartal ◽  
Chen Misgav
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Traumatic Events ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Urban Activism ◽  
Lgbt Community ◽  
Urban Contexts

Growing attention has been devoted to the political geography of urban social movements but trauma, its urban context and spatial politics, have been significantly neglected. This paper aims to develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’ and its aftermath in the sense of urban and spatial activism, through an analysis of two traumatic events for the LGBT community in Israel. It explains how traumatic events taking place within urban contexts affect the spatial politics of LGBT and queer urban activism. Based on geographies of sexualities and queer theory, this paper aims to fill this gap by analysing traumatic events in two Israeli cities: the 2009 shooting of two young queers in a youth club in Tel Aviv, and the 2015 stabbing of a young girl during the Jerusalem Pride Parade. Tel Aviv is considered the liberal centre of Israel and a local ‘gay heaven’, as well as a destination for global gay tourism. Jerusalem on the other hand is usually described with a sense of alienation among LGBT and queer individuals and movements, where every political, spatial, cultural and financial achievement is a struggle. We argue that the politics of trauma are constructed differently in these two urban settings, producing important nuances of urban activism and politics. Through this empirical discussion, we develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’, revealing divergent forms of spatial visibility, presence and activity of the queer movements within urban spaces.

scholarly journals FOSTERING ‘INTERNATIONALIZATION AT HOME’THROUGHINTRODUCING INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE COURSE IN INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION CURRICULUM

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-60
Author(s):  
Dwivedi Anand Prakash Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Intercultural Competence ◽  
Linguistic Diversity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
International Literature ◽  
Internationalisation At Home ◽  
The World ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Diverse Cultures ◽  
At Home

COVID pandemic is a wake-up call to encourage 'Internationalisation at Home' (IAH) by designing the existing course curriculum or introducing new courses for scaffolding the global workforce, academic advancement, and exchange of research and ideas. This paper proposes that introducing an International Literature course in Indian Higher Education (IHE) curricula would effectively internationalise IHE at home. Incorporating an International Literature course is an important prerequisite for promoting learning to live together with harmony among the world's diverse cultures and collectively find solutions to the socio-economic challenges. It is high time to re-think our roles, responsibilities, and actions at the local, national, and global levels. It is believed that the proposed course will make easy connecting with diverse cultures of the world and nurture critical thinking for the global good and hence will foster 'Internationalisation at Home'. Literature is the only cultural product knitted with the language of that cultural space that encapsulates cultural practice and reflects social perception comprehensively. Without understanding the rich cultural, social, religious, ethnic, and linguistic diversity and heritage of the world, the concept of VasudhaivaKutumbakam (the world is one family) cannot be understood in its entirety. The literature of one language alone would not suffice to cover the whole range of the world's socio-cultural diversity and heritage. Therefore, this paper investigates the scope for incorporating international literature course (translated in English or the home language) and suggests a few creative ways for linguistic and socio-cultural edification and intercultural competence.

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