TABLE OF CONTENTS
Malgorzata A. DERENIOWSKA, The Cycle of Lived-Space: From
Knowing-Making Toward Designing-Building
ABSTRACT: The article examines the
reduction of architecture to the dimension of utility which results in
placelessness. The modern redefinition of science as “knowing-making” is
essential to this reduction, although it has fundamental and forgotten
importance. Drawing upon Martin Heidegger’s and George Grant’s critique of
technology, and the ideas of Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Charles-Francois Viel, the
significance of the complex relations between theory and practice in
architecture will be explored in the context of Kimberly Dovey’s notion of the cycle of lived-space. A
re-definition of modern “knowing-making” reveals a semiotic level which
contains new possibilities for meaningful and environmentally attuned architecture
within the technological framework. I suggest “designing-building” as an
alternative, understood as a process of poetic recreation of meaningful spaces.
Nader EL-BIZRI, Being at Home Among Things:
Heidegger’s Reflections on Dwelling
Abstract: This article
examines Heidegger’s account of dwelling while placing it in the broad context
of a wide array of his lectures and the constellation of his collected writings.
The focus on this question is primarily ontological in character, in spite of
the spatial significance of the phenomenon of dwelling, and the bearings it has
on a variety of disciplines that interrogate its essence, be it in
architectural humanities and design or in geography, which probe the various
elements of its architectonic and topological underpinnings. The investigation
of Heidegger’s reflections on dwelling will be connected in this line of
inquiry with his consideration of what he refers to as “the gathering of the
fourfold,” namely as “earth, sky, mortals and divinities,” and the manner they
are admitted and installed into “things,” all to be set against the background
of his meditations on the origins of the work of art, and on the unfolding of
the essence of modern technology as en-framing.
Gerald PHILLIPS, Büchner/Berg: Wozzeck
—Alienation from Nature
ABSTRACT: Alienation as an aspect of the human condition has a long
and storied history. Much of the attention has been focused, however, on alienation
among humans themselves. Yet it is increasingly clear that we are in the
process of alienating ourselves from the world and all of the creatures and objects
in it. This discussion examines the second choral ode from Sophocles’ Antigone
and some analyses of the content and formal aspects of Berg’s opera, Wozzeck,
in the context of Adorno’s concept of “distinctness without domination,” as
means of providing a brief analysis of the problem of alienation considered in
this larger sense. These considerations enable the isolation of several
important factors that have inhibited our insight into the seriousness of this
form of alienation: First, alienation among humans has effectively distracted
us from the increasing urgency of our alienation from the world and the things
in it. Second, blinded by our spectacular illusion of “progress,” we continue
to pay for it by wreaking destruction upon the planet, the very fount of our
existence. Third, morality has only too often been seen as being located in
rationalized (hierarchical) relationships among humans rather than as an
equally shared, spiritual relationship among the human community, the rest of
the biosphere, and the very rocks and water upon which we exist. This final
point suggests changes in attitude and behavior that could help us avoid the
most devastating effects of this more broadly conceived form of alienation.
Dennis WOOD, Il y a toujours l’Autre: The Vagrant Space
and the FourthSpaciality
Abstract: This paper takes as its starting point the conjoining of
the perceived and conceived spaces of what Soja (1996) calls Thirdspace and what Lefebvre calls
‘lived space’ to launch a discussion about ideas surrounding contemporary
concepts of community. The sites under discussion are the ubiquitous shopping
malls and the enclave estates or master planned communities (mpcs) which, it is
argued, by their design offer only ‘illusions of community.’ The claim in this
paper is that within these spaces of control are spatialities of resistance–vagrant spaces-that can, under certain
circumstances, point to the ‘poverty of participation’ in the community
experience.
Philip WHALEN, From ‘Bat-Filled Slimy Ruins’ to ‘Gastronomic Delights’:
Geography and Gastronomic Tourism
in Modern Burgundy
ABSTRACT: The modernization of Burgundy during
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on the coordinated
efforts of numerous industrial and cultural sectors. Among these innovative
developments, new tourism industries played a prominent role in providing new
opportunities for the consumption of local products while redefining existing
conceptions of Burgundian landscapes. This entailed collaboration of a variety
of cultural intermediaries ranging from local boosters to politicians and from
merchants to academics. Geographers contributed by incorporating symbolic, subjective,
and performative practices into the existing regional concepts of terroir and genres-de-vie. The result was newly scripted roles for tourists and
locals to participate in gastronomic activities that, by virtue of the
experience, altered participants’ experience of time, space, and themselves.
Rapidly institutionalized in Burgundy, these developments illustrate how
contemporary commercial interests influenced geographic notions of place in the
French provinces.
Panizza ALLMARK, Safe Spectatorship? Photography, Space, Terrorism
and the London Bombings
ABSTRACT: Drawing upon the notion of the uncanny, this
article examines my documentary photography concerning the ‘everyday’
indeterminate and potentially ominous spaces around the London transport system
following the bombing incidents on the 7th July, 2005. The
photographs consist of reframing images found which draw attention to the
lingering reminders of terrorism within the cityscape. This paper examines also
how issues of representation, race, suspects, victims, protest, defiance and
accusations can be evoked in the ficto-critical use of urban documentary photography. |
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