Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation: Geographies of Being-In Buildings

Kraftl, Peter; Adey, Peter

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“…Yet these spaces of immobility and stilling can act as a haven to the encumbered body. Relaxation is therefore not necessarily evoked by particular 'restful' atmospheres fostered by aesthetically-pleasant objects, surfaces or lighting (see Kraftl and Adey 2008); rather it is the invitation to momentarily relinquish these prostheses. This detachment is not the potentially anxiety-inducing detachment of passenger and luggage experienced at airports, rather a soothing detachment where objects are still at-hand.…”

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“…Similar to the airport where passenger flows are spatially segregated by 'class' with high-paying executive and club-class passengers being channelled through different parts of the airport to economy passengers (Beaverstock, Hubbard and Rennie Short 2004), many larger stations have first-class lounges, waiting rooms and meeting rooms. These elite spaces are restricted to passengers holding first-class tickets and offer refreshments, soft comfortable seating and an 'oasis of calm'; an atmosphere of sanctuary reminiscent of an airport prayer room (Kraftl and Adey 2008). For encumbered passengers who hold firstclass tickets, these spaces are designed specifically to facilitate relaxation.…”

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Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Bissell

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper develops ideas of differential mobility at the scale of the 'everyday' by investigating some of the complex relationships between mobility and immobility; facilitation and encumbrance when moving through railway stations. Drawing on in-depth qualitative research with rail passengers in Britain, the first section explores the entangled relationship between differently-mobile bodies and the station by considering some of the tensions that emerge between experiences of encumbrance and facilitation. Focus here is on how navigating through the station with different mobile objects, or 'prostheses', impacts on passengers in a variety of ways. Drawing on insights from science, technology and society studies, it demonstrates how moving with different objects gives rise to fluid apprehensions of both mobile objects and the built form of the station itself. However, and importantly, this section suggests that this fluidity also has the capacity to disrupt the intended affective dimensions of the built form. The second section explores how differently-mobile passengers move through the station with these mobile objects. Drawing on de Certeau's notion of 'tactics' and Ingold's idea of the 'taskscape', this section pulls out some of the practical knowledges that, through repetition, develop into skills and techniques for moving. In doing so, this paper seeks to illuminate some of the complex relationships between mobility, prosthetics, encumbrance and affectivity that emerge when moving through the railway station.

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Section: Fluid Prostheticsmentioning

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Section: Fluid Prostheticsmentioning

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Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Bissell

2009

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…Por outro lado, outros estudos têm apontado para a influência afetiva da morfologia espacial e as suas variações, como o de Adey (2008) que mostra como espaços como os aeroportos são desenhados para induzir uma determinada mobilidade no seu interior, sendo a experiência espacial planeada ao detalhe dos afetos, para assegurar controlo sobre os indivíduos nesses espaços, ou o estudo de Edensor (2012) sobre iluminação no festival Blackpool Illuminations que mostra a participação da luz nas atmosferas afetivas de Blackpool. Outros estudos semelhantes têm analisado centros comerciais (Miller, 2014), edifícios (Kraftl & Adey, 2008), praias (Lobo, 2014), ou transportes (Bissell, 2010).…”

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Teorias Não-Representacionais Na Geografia I: Conceitos Para Uma Geografia Do Que Acontece

Paiva¹

2018

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RESUMO -As teorias não -representacionais são incontornáveis na geografia cultural contemporânea, pelo que se justifica uma revisão crítica dos principais contributos que tem fornecido à disciplina. Com isso em mente, o objetivo deste artigo é abordar o desenvolvimento das teorias não -representacionais na geografia, e providenciar uma leitura crítica do seu impacto na geografia cultural. As teorias não -representacionais podem ser caracterizadas como uma perspetiva teórica que foca os aspectos processuais e dinâmicos do quotidiano -as práticas, as experiências, as performances -procurando ir para além de leituras segmentadas da realidade e da experiência humana. Para atingir o propósito do artigo, abordarei as genealogias teóricas das teorias não -representacionais e os seus principais fundamentos em três partes: (i) subjetividade, afetos, e sensações; (ii) materialismo relacional; e (iii) movimento, tempo, e eventos. Palavras -chave:Teorias não -representacionais; geografia cultural; afeto; assemblage; evento. ABSTRACT -NON -REPRESENTATIONAL THEORIES IN GEOGRAPHY I: CON-CEPTS FOR A GEOGRAPHY OF WHAT HAPPENS.Non -representational theories are central in contemporary cultural geographies, and for this reason a critical review of its contributions is pertinent. With that in mind, the objective of this article is to approach the expansion of non -representational theories in geography, and to provide a critical reading of its impact in cultural geography. Non -representational theories may be characterized as a theoretical perspective that focuses on the processual and dynamic aspect of everyday life -practices, experiences, and performances -and that seeks to go beyond segmented analysis of reality and human experience. In order to reach this article's goal, I will approach the genealogy of non -representational theories and their main concepts in three segments: (i) subjectivity, affect, and sensation; (ii) relational materialism; and (iii) movement, time, and events.Keywords: Non -representational theories; cultural geography; affect; assemblage; event.Recebido: outubro 2016. Aceite: fevereiro 2017. RÉSUMÉ -LES THÉORIES NON -REPRÉSENTATIONNELLES EN GÉOGRAPHIE I: DES CONCEPTS ADAPTÉS À UNE GÉOGRAPHIE DE «CE QUI SE PASSE».La Géogra-phie culturelle contemporaine ne peut ignorer les théories non -représentationnelles. C' est pourquoi on présente ici l' évolution de leur usage en Géographie ainsi qu'une lecture critique de leur influence sur la Géographie culturelle. Ces théories apportent une vision nouvelle sur le processus et la dynamique du quotidien, sur les usages, les expériences et leurs résultats. On essaie ainsi de dépasser une présentation parcellaire de la réalité et des expé-riences humaines. Pour cela, on présente les généalogies de ces théories et leurs bases principales : 1. la subjectivité, l'affect et les sensations, 2. le matérialisme relationnel, 3. le mouvement, le temps, les événements.

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“…Nigel Thrift (2004), has argued that contemporary urban spaces are utterly imbued with affect: the power to manipulate affective dispositions should thus be a key artefact of critical geographical inquiry. Recent geographies of built form have combined the three approaches above to explore how affects are produced, controlled and negotiated by built spaces, their architects, and their users (Holloway 2003;Saville 2008 Kraftl and Adey 2008). This work allows for a fuller exposition not only of the emotions attached to buildings, but the human and non-human agents complicit in the more-orless knowing manipulation of affective dispositions and movements (Rose et al, 2010).…”

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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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Architecture/Affect/Inhabitation: Geographies of Being-In Buildings

Cited by 206 publications

References 44 publications

Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Conceptualising differently-mobile passengers: geographies of everyday encumbrance in the railway station

Teorias Não-Representacionais Na Geografia I: Conceitos Para Uma Geografia Do Que Acontece

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

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