Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control

Adey, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2007.09.001

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“…Most terminal buildings were designed to facilitate passenger flow in a constrained way from check-in, through security into the departure area, and from there to the boarding gates. Between the subsequent processing sites, passenger mobility is constrained by corridors and walls (Adey, 2008). From the perspective of passenger logistics, the commercial developments at the airport seem to be at odds with the operational management processes.…”

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“…Commercial revenues now account for around half of total revenues (Graham, 2009). To enhance revenues from retail, passenger areas are being designed or redesigned to limit and quite rigidly enforce the movement of passengers in such a way that they might be seduced by the many shops to which they are exposed (Adey, 2008).…”

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“…Airports intensively monitor consumer preferences, and several literature studies have investigated consumer behaviour to improve wayfinding (Adey, 2008;Churchill, Dada, de Barros, & Wirasinghe, 2008;Correia, Wirasinghe & de Barros, 2008a), or to improve access travel times and modes of transport (Tsamboulas & Nikoleris, 2008) to support their operations processes and to increase retail revenues. However, very little is known about how consumers value the design of airport passenger and retail areas.…”

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“…However, very little is known about how consumers value the design of airport passenger and retail areas. This lack of knowledge is striking, since the atmospherics of terminal buildings affect the emotional state of consumers, either encouraging them to remain in the retail areas and to evaluate the setting and purchases in the shops, or discouraging them from doing so (Adey, 2008;Omar, 2002).…”

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Consumer preferences in the design of airport passenger areas

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Berkhof²

2013

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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b pieterse terwel grevink advies bv, PO box 1496, 3800 BL Amersfoort, The Netherlands Keywords: Architecture, consumer preferences, discrete choice experiments, aesthetics, userinspired design AbstractIn recent decades, commercial developments have become increasingly important for the overall profit of airports. However, little is known about consumer preferences regarding the design of passenger areas, which is striking as the design of terminal buildings affects consumers' emotional state and shopping behaviour. The aim of this study was therefore to investigate how architectural design characteristics are valued by airport passengers, using visualizations of hypothetical passenger areas.Discrete choice experiments were used to investigate passenger preferences for eight design characteristics. Data on 346 passengers were collected in June 2008 in departure and transfer areas at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.Analyses showed that passengers preferred a passenger area with a curvilinear roof, a curved layout, the presence of greenery, no decoration reflecting the distinctiveness of Holland, warm lighting, wide dimensions and white materials. Signage had no influence.Consumer preferences in the design of airport passenger areas 2

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2013

Journal of Environmental Psychology

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“…56-57): Traditionally, architectural geography has been practiced by putting architectural symbols into their social … contexts to tease out their meaning. But if we are to concern ourselves with the inhabitation of architectural space as much as its signification … we must [also] engage…actively with the situated and everyday practices through which built environments are used Lees' lively conception of architecture exemplifies a shift towards the practices, subjectivities and meanings created by the users of buildings (Borden et al 1998;Adey 2006Adey , 2008Datta 2006). Hence, the symbolic meanings apparent in a building are scrambled by the multiple meanings attached to a building by its users.…”

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Architectural movements, utopian moments: (in)coherent renderings of the hundertwasser‐haus, vienna

Kraftl

2010

Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography

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ABSTRACT. This paper explores some of the manifold entanglements of architecture and utopia. It takes as a case study a social housing block in Vienna: the Hundertwasser-Haus. The house was designed by the artist-architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser and has attracted enormous attention from the architectural press and tourists. I articulate a series of architectural 'movements', manifest in Hundertwasser's design philosophy, press reportage about the house, residents' experiences of living at the house, and visitors' activities outside it. I argue that from these movements, a series of essentially unconnected utopian "moments" emerged. The paper makes two contributions. First, it builds upon gathering interest in the geographies of utopiaspecifically by moving beyond an emphasis upon utopian hope. It locates utopian impulses that are imbued with euphoria and joy, and which are not beset by a sense of lack. It also provides empirical examples of "unsettling" utopias of different registers (such as textual and experiential).Second, the paper contributes to recent geographical approaches to studying architecture. It uses the analytical motif of movements to gain a sense of how a material building -and the idea of that building -is constituted as much by tenuous relations and disjunctures (even non-relations) as by relations. Whereas contemporary geographies of architecture do not leave room for tenuous relations and disjunctures in their narratives, this paper tries to do so. It highlights how utopian moments at the Hundertwasser-Haus are proximate to each other: they are located metaphorically and/or literally at the house. Yet those moments neither conform to a coherent, singular narrative, and in some cases, nor do they relate to each other. The paper opens debate about the significance of non-relational socio-technical constituents to the geographies of architecture.Keywords: Geographies of architecture; relational spaces; event and disjuncture; unsettling utopia; home; tourism. 2The concept of disjunction is incompatible with a static, autonomous, structural view of architecture. But it is not anti-autonomy or anti-structure; it simply implies constant, mechanical operations that systematically produce dissociation in space and time, where an architectural element only functions by colliding with a programmatic element, with the movement of bodies, or whatever. In this manner, disjunction becomes a systematic and theoretical tool for the making of architecture (Tschumi 1996, pp. 212-213)

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Political Moves: Cultural Geographies of Migration and Difference

Silvey

2013

The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography

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The last two decades have witnessed a burgeoning of cultural-geographic studies of migration. Indeed, in a recent review of migration studies, population geographer Russell King (2012: 143) points out that not only have cultural geographers been major contributors to recent studies of migration, but also "migration geographers . . . [have become] some of the key protagonists of the new cultural geography, and their papers have contributed an ever-increasing share of the contents of the leading journals in human geography since the mid-1990s." This expansion of interest is a response to both empirical changes in global migration and shifts in theoretical priorities in geography and cognate fields. As places and "cultures" have grown increasingly deeply interconnected across space and as growing absolute numbers of migrants have traveled to rising numbers of places in increasingly complex patterns, the migrant has emerged as a key figure embodying, enacting, and representing the fears and hopes attached to globalization. The cultural politics of migration, thus, have required attention not only to the spatial demographies of migration but also to the social processes of meaning-making in relation to citizenship, borders, identities, and labor markets, as well as discourses and histories of racialization and gender relations. Through attention to migrants' lived geographies, recent research brings to life the political dimensions of migrants' cultural geographies. In this chapter, I argue that cultural geography, and in particular feminist cultural geography, offers conceptual tools that have been especially illuminating for the rapidly changing lived politics of migration.The chapter is organized around three main themes. 1 First, it traces concepts of control and dominance in migration studies, examining cultural-geographic approaches to politicaleconomic structures, state policies, labor markets, and the securitization practices and disciplinary discourses that underpin heightened surveillance and everyday policing of migrants. Second, the chapter focuses on subjectivities and the ways migrants as embodied subjects

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Airports, mobility and the calculative architecture of affective control

Cited by 241 publications

References 63 publications

Consumer preferences in the design of airport passenger areas

Consumer preferences in the design of airport passenger areas

Architectural movements, utopian moments: (in)coherent renderings of the hundertwasser‐haus, vienna

Political Moves: Cultural Geographies of Migration and Difference

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