Urban Wallpaper: Film Posters, City Walls and the Cinematic Public in South Asia

Hoek, Lotte

doi:10.1080/00856401.2016.1139029

“…The presence of blank surfaces implies the conscious decision of the owner to maintain the boundary conditions in a desired manner, or neglect in realizing the unused potential of the boundary wall surfaces, whereas the presence of authorized and unauthorized surface uses implies the role of boundary wall surfaces as potential sites for public visibility. These results correspond with past studies which found that boundary wall "surfaceality" is a form of mediated interaction between people, content and space (Brighenti, 2009, p. 65;Hoek, 2016). In this regard, this study also reveals that the surface uses of boundary walls are not limited by ownership conditions, evident in the varying types of surface uses and their ownership status (Table 2).…”

Section: Surface Uses Of the Boundary Walls In Positive Space Typessupporting

confidence: 90%

“…The role of a wall negotiates between its physical qualities and affective qualities, the former to control and deter, whereas the latter creates possibilities for interaction and communication, which can be either encouraging or discouraging (Brighenti, 2009). Boundary walls possess the capacity to generate various visibilities, wherein their surfaces enable public address by means of posters, fliers, advertisements, political messages, and public art (Brighenti, 2009;Hoek, 2016). Apart from the significance of physical features and surface uses, Madanipour (2003, p. 56) states that the physical access and visual access conditions of boundary walls are essential attributes that are instrumental in "creating managed environments".…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space

Saisanath

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Subbaiyan

²

2022

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As part of the proliferation of security concerns and privatization of space, the consideration of boundary walls in contributing to the publicness of public spaces is limited to their presence and level of visual accessibility. However, as one of the interstitial configurations of street edges, the enabling capacity of the physical attributes of boundary walls in influencing the perceived sociability of the adjoining space has hardly been investigated. The contribution of boundary walls towards the publicness of public spaces is dependent on the intensity of their physical attributes. Physical features, surface uses, physical access, and visual access conditions are the attributes of boundary walls that not only represent the intended levels of control, but also latently reveal the intrinsic association with the adjoining space. Premised on the interaction between objective and subjective measurements, in this study, these physical attributes of boundary walls are measured in terms of their contribution to the publicness of public spaces, while the perceived sociability of the adjoining space is measured through a questionnaire survey in positive and ambiguous space types. The physical boundaries of eleven positive spaces and twelve ambiguous space types in Tiruchirappalli city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India are identified, and the differences in the perceived sociability of the adjoining spaces are analyzed with respect to the physical attributes of boundary walls and the presence of sidewalk. This study has found that the physical features, surface uses, visual access, and the varying conditions of the abutting space of boundary walls influence the perceived sociability of the adjoining space.

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“…The presence of blank surfaces implies the conscious decision of the owner to maintain the boundary conditions in a desired manner, or neglect in realizing the unused potential of the boundary wall surfaces, whereas the presence of authorized and unauthorized surface uses implies role of boundary wall surfaces as potential sites for public visibility. These results correspond with past studies which found that boundary wall "surfaceality" is a form of mediated interaction between people, content and space (Brighenti, 2009, p. 65;Hoek, 2016). In this regard, this study also reveals that the surface uses of boundary walls are not limited by ownership conditions, evident in the varying types of surface uses and their ownership status (Table 2).…”

Section: Surface Uses Of the Boundary Walls In Positive Ambiguous Spa...supporting

confidence: 90%

Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space

Saisanath

¹

,

Subbaiyan

²

2022

NJEDP

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As part of the proliferation of security concerns and privatization of space, the consideration of boundary walls in contributing to the publicness of public spaces is limited to their presence and level of visual accessibility. However, as one of the interstitial configurations of street edges, the enabling capacity of the physical attributes of boundary walls in influencing the perceived sociability of the adjoining space has hardly been investigated. The contribution of boundary walls towards the publicness of public spaces is dependent on the intensity of their physical attributes. Physical features, surface uses, physical access, and visual access conditions are the attributes of boundary walls that not only represent the intended levels of control, but also latently reveal the intrinsic association with the adjoining space. Premised on the interaction between objective and subjective measurements, in this study, these physical attributes of boundary walls are measured in terms of their contribution to the publicness of public spaces, while the perceived sociability of the adjoining space is measured through a questionnaire survey in positive and ambiguous space types. The physical boundaries of eleven positive spaces and twelve ambiguous space types in Tiruchirappalli city in the state of Tamil Nadu, India are identified, and the differences in the perceived sociability of the adjoining spaces are analyzed with respect to the physical attributes of boundary walls and the presence of sidewalk. This study has found that the physical features, surface uses, visual access, and the varying conditions of the abutting space of boundary walls influence the perceived sociability of the adjoining space.

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“…By harping on the diversity within the vernacular field of political communication (which is itself an ignored arena of scholarship), I wish to engage with wall writings and floating words constituting an archive of contemporary aesthetics that is largely ignored and contested (for some exceptions see Chattopadhyay, 2012; Hoek, 2016). At times, in this domain, the experimentation with the form is embedded in the idea of resistance to authoritarian practices and institutions, and on other occasions, this archive leads us to the myriad ways in which the act of walking on the street orients our gaze.…”

Section: Impressionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular: Political Culture in Contemporary India

Jha¹

2022

Journal of Human Values

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Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of conflict around visual representations in India. The field of the visual is the new terrain for rumour mongering and for maiming uncomfortable oppositional voices. With the fast-spreading mobile culture, penetrating social media and continued legacy of the pictorial as an embodiment of the real, the visual has taken over both the oral as well as the written words in its usefulness to serve the political. Can we simply comprehend such a visual aggression by taking recourse in the enhanced role of visual media in our everyday life, along the lines of a ‘visual turn’? Is the visual sphere another surface of politics? With these key questions, this article revisits certain contemporary visual events by focusing on words that float in public spaces from streets to television screens. On a broader terrain, with an emphasis on aesthetics, the article relooks at an often-settled equation between the visual and the political on the one hand and the question of the visual as an archive of the contemporary on the other. Following Rancière’s notion of aesthetics as a field of the distribution of the sensible, this article has tried to focus on vernacular words circulating outside the confines of the literature and create a domain of political communication hitherto ignored by scholars.

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Urban Wallpaper: Film Posters, City Walls and the Cinematic Public in South Asia

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Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space

Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space

Influence of the Physical Attributes of Boundary Walls on the Perceived Sociability of the Adjoining Public Space

Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular: Political Culture in Contemporary India

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