Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213287
Şengül Öymen Gür, Gamze Kaymak Heinz
Autochthonous places are sui generis and unique. But unfortunately, they entice planners and politicians and become their target. This study investigates a more than 2,000 years old settlement, Fener-Balat (Istanbul), in terms of topos (its population movements and ethnic structure over the years, physical properties) and chora (feelings, emotions, and aura). It employs multiple research techniques that disclose findings on dimensional and typo-morphological qualities (connectivity, accessibility, legibility, walkability, figure/ground, and other identity properties such as district-edge-nodes-paths-landmarks), historical and cultural palimpsests, which altogether define the uniqueness of the place. The present study claims that the Fener-Balat district is defined as a strong “place” with its “topos,” and “chora,” despite the undesirable physical, social, and ethnic structure changes brought about by time. Thus, it proposes a soft method that includes renovation and restoration of problem buildings on site which is more suitable for the unique protected areas of world civilizations.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1177/12063312231210169
Olga Tkach
This article aims to contribute to the study of the relationship between the increasing size and verticality of contemporary cities and the lived experiences of their residents. Drawing on 20 residential biographies of apartment owners in the newly built large housing estates (LHEs) on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, Russia, I explore how their specific geometry and materiality co-constitute everyday neighboring interactions. As an analytical tool, I apply a version of social practice theory that treats materiality as an influential constitutive component of everyday life. The article shows how geometry, including verticality and size, as well as shared materiality, shape and mediate neighboring practices. I argue that diverse neighboring interactions, occurring simultaneously at larger and smaller scales, as well as in visible and invisible modes, are inherent in vibrantly gigantic and monolithic housing. The article coins the concept of elastic neighboring, focusing on the everyday oscillation between residents’ isolation and awareness of each other.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213249
R. Paez
This article explores how incorporating game-based formats and playful practices into the design process can inform urban and architectural design. In response to the question “How can we think of design as a playground?,” the article presents an expanded notion of play and delves into its implications when incorporated into the design process. The role of play in design is examined according to three aspects: constraints (facilitating an explorative use of factual or self-imposed constraints), engagement (prompting new types of engagement and authorship through dialogism), and chance (creatively embracing chance). Through a series of case studies, this article investigates a range of possibilities for introducing play into spatial design practice and reflects on how it can serve as a foundation for rethinking authorship in design.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-08DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213294
Ji Eun Kim, Eun Soo Park
This study argues for the aesthetics and values of a poetic space as a place branding strategy. Gaston Bachelard’s (1884–1962) poetic space refers to a happy place internalized by people, one where they can collectively achieve an aesthetic and emotional communion through imagination. Applying poetic space theory to place branding provides brand marketers with a powerful tool, as place branding offers an impression of the brand. This study thus seeks to explore place branding based on Bachelard’s poetic space theory presented in his book, The Poetics of Space, as a starting point for understanding space. Moreover, this study qualitatively examines the signature stores of Aesop to show that a place branded space that reflects the features of poetic space can create a positive image of the brand as a place of comfort and refuge. In addition, experiential elements allowing for natural internalization would help customers retain their positive associations with the brand in memory. Spatial expression methods of place branding that apply the features of poetic space as proposed by Bachelard serve as a substantial reference point for ideating concepts and directions for place branding.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-07DOI: 10.1177/12063312231210179
Mickey Vallee
Sound technologies and sound sensor networks play a crucial role in our understanding of biodiversity loss in conservation biology and the environmental sciences. Among these technologies, the autonomous recording unit (ARU) has been widely used for studying longitudinal biodiversity loss. This article draws on fieldwork conducted in 2016 and 2017 at a bioacoustics research laboratory to explore the significance of the ARU, developed by Wildlife Acoustics, as the central component of the research network for biodiversity conservation. While it is commonly acknowledged in Science and Technology Studies (STS) that research instruments are not neutral data collectors, this article examines how the ARU is deployed and programmed, and how it transcends the limitations of human-centered listening by (a) shifting the focus away from the perceiving human subject and (b) promoting a global ethic of response and responsibility as sound becomes more democratized in scientific practices.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213261
Seth Giddings
This article examines children’s playgrounds as technological, spatial, and historical phenomena, juxtaposing their origins in the industrial era of the late 19th to early 20th centuries with Lightbug, a recent project to develop digitally augmented playground equipment. Questions of space, movement, mechanics, imagination, play, and technical and historical specificity will be explored and it will be suggested that attention to the industrial and machinic character of playground technology can highlight contemporary attitudes to, and possibilities for, children’s outdoor play in the postdigital era. It asks questions about the introduction of digital technology and media forms into long-established physical play, about the physicality and technical nature of embodied play, and about the relationships between play, play environments, and imagination highlighted in times of technological change.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/12063312231210160
Nicholas Hardy
This article explores the linkages between Serres’ Le Parasite and the research practice of creative intervention via the analysis of an experimental film produced for the 2022 Space and Culture Conference on Taking Place and Making Place. The experimental film is intended as a provocation, in that it seeks to exceed the forms of conventional scholarship. In an effort to invent new modes of thought production, documented research materials of local sites are combined with a range of ideas and theories, blurring boundaries between theory, poetry, and practice, the dystopia of the virtualization of everyday life and the figuration of possible realities, glimpsed from a local viewpoint which follows the fluxes of emergences.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/12063312231210110
Leonie Tuitjer, Anna-Lisa Müller, G. Tuitjer
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and associated public health measures continuously alter our everyday lives and routines. Here, we focus on social infrastructures of local provisions and the role they perform within cities under shutdown. Social infrastructures of local provisions such as supermarkets remained functional in Germany even during repeated shutdowns as they were perceived as essential for everyday life. Supermarkets hence turned from mundane sites of provision to sites where we could witness how infrastructures are deeply entangled with the microfoundations of urban social life. Based on auto-ethnographic accounts covering the period from March 2020 until May 2020, we explore how these spaces became primary sites through which to experience the changes caused by the pandemic. Writing from inner-city neighborhoods, we highlight the need to attend to the ambiguous role of design, objects, and materiality to adjust collective social practices and urban conviviality in the times of COVID-19.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-05DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213254
Larissa Hjorth, S. Lammes
Cities are complex spaces of contesting infrastructures, media, humans and more-than-human interactions. They are places that house multiple visible and invisible cartographies that draw on multisensorial ways of being in the world. In the city, our senses are amplified and intensified in ways that reorient our processes of worlding. Cities have, more recently, been defined and approached as spaces for play. In this article, we explore how understanding the city as a playground—or through the activity of playgrounding—can invite new ways of designing urban games and playful interventions that acknowledge the uneven and multisensorial ways we inhabit the world. We reflect upon dominant, innovative, and interventionist ideas of playgrounds and notions such as the playful or playable city. We then reflect on findings from a placemaking game workshop designed around the Spanish Superillas (superblocks) in Barcelona. Superillas are playgrounds designed into street intersections that have transformed specific sections of the city in a playground. What does it mean to think about the city as a playground? Can this speculation/ provocation help us rethink the city in more inclusive and sensorial ways?
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Pub Date : 2023-11-29DOI: 10.1177/12063312231213260
Colleen Macklin
Urban games, by using the city as a medium, temporarily surface underlying ideologies and systems influencing urban life. This paper explores the political potential of this medium anchored by interviews with urban game makers/organizers and the strategies they have developed to bring inclusive, safe, and enlightening forms of play and public engagement to the city.
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