Windows: Re-viewing Red Road

Jacobs, Jane; Cairns, Stephen; Strebel, Ignaz

doi:10.1080/14702540802438488

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“…involved many points of contact with Jacobs, Cairns and Strebel's SUYH--Show Us Your Home--methodology (see Jacobs et al, 2008;n.d. ): they started from the same notion of 'asking residents to show us their homes as a mechanism for activating the socio-materiality of the home, the lived event of the home' (Jacobs et al, n.d.), to which were then appended life-story interviews.…”

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“…Other work from her research team (e.g. Jacobs et al, 2008) tries to fill this gap and engages with the idea of a practised architecture, but the point I want to make again here is that people are crucial in sociotechnical assemblages, be they related to the demise of a utopian typology (the high-rise) or, conversely, to the emergence of a dystopian one (the slum).…”

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The Slum Multiple: A Cyborg Micro‐history of an Informal Settlement in Lisbon

Ascensão

2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article proposes a cyborg reading of the process of informal settlement by internal and postcolonial immigrants in Lisbon's periphery from the 1970s to the present. Cyborg does not stand for a neo‐organicist or cybernetic understanding of the informal city but rather for the conjunction of the multiple enactments of city life under conditions of urban informality—in this case the fourfold combination of history/migration; architecture/low‐fi technologies; inhabitation/body/memory; and governmentality/urban capital. The 40‐year event of settlement and inhabitation is presented through an ethnographic micro‐history of one neighbourhood in particular, with a strong focus on slum dwellers' life stories, on the details of the artefact‐machines they have built, their informal dwellings, and on their social and mental experience of place. Responding to recent calls for multidisciplinary ethnographies of informality, the article brings the specificity of Lisbon's informal settlements—their growth based in postcolonial rather than rural migrations—into current debates on informal urbanisms and geographies of sociotechnical urban assemblages.

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2015

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…That is, humans can reflect on what they are co‐performing and, in this case, make comparisons in order to assess that co‐performance. These buildings are indeed events, and how they feel is not therefore consistent: nor then is people’s engagement with them (Becker 2002; Hutta 2009; Jacobs et al 2008, 182).…”

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More on ‘big things’: building events and feelings

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Basdas³

2010

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

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This paper begins by reviewing a range of recent work by geographers conceptualising buildings less as solid objects and more as performances.Buildings, it is argued, are not given but produced, as various materials are held together in specific assemblages by work of various kinds. This has led to a range of studies looking at the diverse sorts of work that make buildings cohere: the political institutions they are embedded in, the material affordances of their non-human components, the discourses surrounding particular kinds of buildings, and, in particular, the experiencing of buildings by their human inhabitants, users and visitors. However, this experiencing has been poorly theorised. Those geographers inspired by actor network approaches to buildings acknowledge human experiences, but in very limited ways; while those geographers inspired more by affect theory evoke the 'feelings' that buildings may provoke but evacuate human subjectivity from their accounts of buildings' performances. Through a case study of two buildings, this paper argues that both approaches are flawed in their uninterest in the human, and proposes that more attention be paid to (at least) three aspects of human feeling: the feel of buildings, feelings in buildings, and feelings about buildings.

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“…For example, approaching or opening a window as part of a Show Us Your Home tour might solicit commentary on the window technology itself, or on the state of maintenance of the technology (cleaning and repair), on how it has been embellished by being lived with (decoration and damage). Equally, resident commentary might bypass the window altogether and refer to the view, as it was before us on that day or, through the filter of memory, how it presented on a previous occasion (see Jacobs et al ., 2008; 2011).…”

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“…What we, as researchers, saw and understood from these video‐recorded events was subject to the filters of our theory and the close scrutiny of repeated viewings that revealed so much of what could not be put into words of how residents and building co‐produce the high‐rise building event. We do not have the space to discuss those findings in detail here, but we have to date, for example, explored the co‐production of high‐rise views (Jacobs et al ., 2008; 2011). That analytical work not only contributed to the materialising of visual studies but also to ongoing demonstrations of the distributed agencies of architectural assemblages (a matter we return to in our conclusion).…”

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Doing Building Work: Methods at the Interface of Geography and Architecture

Jacobs

Cairns

Strebel

2012

Geographical Research

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This paper summarises the methodological approach taken in an interdisciplinary project involving geographers and architects. The project charted the diverse afterlives of the modernist‐inspired, state‐sponsored, residential high‐rise, and did so drawing on two cases: Red Road Estate in Glasgow and Bukit Ho Swee Estate in Singapore. In offering a specific account of, and reflection upon, the methodologies used in the High‐rise Project, we hope to advance the methodological repertoire of human geography generally and contribute further to the new wave of scholarship on geography and architecture.

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Windows: Re-viewing Red Road

Cited by 17 publications

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The Slum Multiple: A Cyborg Micro‐history of an Informal Settlement in Lisbon

The Slum Multiple: A Cyborg Micro‐history of an Informal Settlement in Lisbon

More on ‘big things’: building events and feelings

Doing Building Work: Methods at the Interface of Geography and Architecture

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