Social Practices and City Spaces by Tsoukala, Kyriaki;

Short description:

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals of architecture, urban planning, anthropology and philosophy.

Long description:

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the constitutional processes of inhabited space.

Throughout this interdisciplinary collection, built space is reconsidered in the light of other schools of thought such as philosophy, anthropology, social sciences and political theories and practices. It covers new ground at conceptual, epistemic and methodological levels, focusing on inhabited space from within the framework of globalisation, biopolitics, cultural changes, environmental crisis and new technologies. Organised into three parts, Parts 1 and 2 focus on the role of architects in the emergence of a new ethos for habitation, as well as the modalities of the inclusion of differences in design, discussing the importance of participation and narrative at a theoretical and practical level in architecture. In the third part, the chapters delve into questions regarding the intersection of design, ecology and technoscience in a posthuman approach, which might support the inclusion of differences in design and the emergence of a new environmental ethos.

Providing a stimulating landscape of arguments and challenges to new readings of architecture, society and the environment, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals of architecture, urban planning, anthropology and philosophy.

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Timeless connections between society and builtscape  1. Public ethics and moral significance of landscape: Political correlations, bodily emancipation and neoteric bourgeois identity  2. Letters: 1519, 1796, 2020 - The architect's public discourse  3. The three-dimensional ethos  Part 2: Contemporary interweavings: Participatory social practices and inhabited space  4.  Revisiting the practices and ethics of participatory design: Learning from contemporary Latin American examples  5.  Co-design in real time: Research and design in Brussels and Valparaiso  6. Place-making from the Urban Palimpsest  7. Architectural toolbar and art of dwelling: Antagonistic antinomies of a spatial ethos  8.  Spatial plots: Three epistemological models  Part 3: Contemporary interweavings: Socio-environmental inclusive approaches to inhabited space  9. Acting and spatial framing: Towards a political topology of the terrestrial  10. Space, biopolitics and democracy  11. Eco-phenomenology and environmental ethics: Observations on topos with reference to Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky 12. Technospatial entanglements of infrastructural bio-/politics  13.  Interwoven lines of cultural expressions  14. ‘Posthuman’ architecture: Contemporary approaches of the human, technology, and nature within the built environment