Imagining Spaces And Places

Author : Saija Isomaa,Kirsi Saarikangas
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443864138

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Imagining Spaces and Places by Saija Isomaa,Kirsi Saarikangas Pdf

Imagining Spaces and Places seeks to produce an interdisciplinary dialogue between art history and literature studies and other fields of cultural analysis that work with the concepts of space, place and various “scapes”, such as cityscapes, bodyscapes, mindscapes and memoryscapes, as well as the more familiar landscapes. The volume was inspired by new lines of study that underline the experiential and multidimensional aspects of spaces. We explore how art, literature or urban spaces forge “scapes” by imposing or suggesting aesthetic, evaluative or ideological orderings and perceptual as well as emotive perspectives on the “raw material” or on previous ways of spatial worldmaking. We look at the role of cultural and artistic renderings of space in relation to everyday experiences of spaces. We examine how the experiences of places are mediated in various art forms and other cultural discourses or practices and how these discourses contribute to the understanding of particular places and also to understanding space in more general terms. Imagining Spaces and Places is addressed to scholars and teachers working at the intersection of cultural and spatial analyses, as well as to their undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Author : Stefano Rozzoni,Beitske Boonstra,Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800717374

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Re-Imagining Spaces and Places by Stefano Rozzoni,Beitske Boonstra,Teresa Cutler-Broyles Pdf

The contributors in this edited collection scrutinize the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current political, social, and environmental urgencies across the globe. The discussions provide a cohesive study for disclosing latent understandings of multiple phenomena characterizing the world in which we live.

Author : Kirsty Gun,Gail Low
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780995512351

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Imagined Spaces by Kirsty Gun,Gail Low Pdf

Exciting and provocative essays in a collection that is fun, entertaining, and deeply serious. In words and images that explore our environment, culture and architecture, that reflect on literary and artistic creation, mortality, mental health, depression, the North (as a place both real and imagined) and education, Imagined Spaces returns the essay to its original activity of having a go, trying and weighing something out, taking a risk.

Author : Kristen Sharp,Elizabeth Grierson
Publisher : Intellect (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Arts and globalization
ISBN : 1841507318

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Re-imagining the City by Kristen Sharp,Elizabeth Grierson Pdf

Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture, and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artifacts, and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand cities--how knowledge can be formed, framed, and transferred through cultural production and how that knowledge is mediated through the construction of aesthetic meaning and value.

Author : Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848881266

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Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation by Brooke L. Rogers,Anna Sugiyama Pdf

Author : Fanny Madeline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317052005

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Space in the Medieval West by Fanny Madeline Pdf

In the last two decades, research on spatial paradigms and practices has gained momentum across disciplines and vastly different periods, including the field of medieval studies. Responding to this ’spatial turn’ in the humanities, the essays collected here generate new ideas about how medieval space was defined, constructed, and practiced in Europe, particularly in France. Essays are grouped thematically and in three parts, from specific sites, through the broader shaping of territory by means of socially constructed networks, to the larger geographical realm. The resulting collection builds on existing scholarship but brings new insight, situating medieval constructions of space in relation to contemporary conceptions of the subject.

Author : Meredith Glaser
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789059727144

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The City at Eye Level by Meredith Glaser Pdf

Although rarely explored in academic literature, most inhabitants and visitors interact with an urban landscape on a day-to-day basis is on the street level. Storefronts, first floor apartments, and sidewalks are the most immediate and common experience of a city. These "plinths" are the ground floors that negotiate between inside and outside, the public and private spheres. The City at Eye Level qualitatively evaluates plinths by exploring specific examples from all over the world. Over twenty-five experts investigate the design, land use, and road and foot traffic in rigorously researched essays, case studies, and interviews. These pieces are supplemented by over two hundred beautiful color images and engage not only with issues in design, but also the concerns of urban communities. The editors have put together a comprehensive guide for anyone concerned with improving or building plinths, including planners, building owners, property and shop managers, designers, and architects.

Author : Sallie Westwood,John Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134761425

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Imagining Cities by Sallie Westwood,John Williams Pdf

The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together some of the most recent and exciting work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organised around the following major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways.While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future in relation to the idea of the virtual city. Hence, the world of cyberspace not only recasts our imaginaries of space and communication, but has a profound effect on the sociological imagination itself.

Author : Jacob Olupona
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520265561

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City of 201 Gods by Jacob Olupona Pdf

The author focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa: the Yoruba city of Ile-Ife in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yoruba traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. He describes how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, he corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yoruba sense of place.

Author : Barbara R. Woshinsky
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0754667545

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Imagining Women's Conventual Spaces in France, 1600-1800 by Barbara R. Woshinsky Pdf

Blending history, architecture and literary analysis, this ground-breaking study explores the convent's place in the early modern imagination. After the Council of Trent imposed strict claustral enclosure, the nun became an intensified object of desire in male-authored narratives. Convents also inspired feminutopian discourses by women writers. Recent criticism has identified spaces that women have made their own: the ruelle, the salon, the hearth of fairy tales. Woshinsky's book definitively adds the convent to this list.

Author : William H. New
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802079628

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Land Sliding by William H. New Pdf

New discusses the ways in which Canadian writing, through images of land and space, expresses various assumptions about social values. In addition to wide range of literary texts, he also draws upon geography, the social sciences, and the visual arts.

Author : Kevin D Murphy,Sally O'Driscoll
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000340273

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Public Space/Contested Space by Kevin D Murphy,Sally O'Driscoll Pdf

It is not possible to be alive today in the United States without feeling the influence of the political climate on the spaces where people live, work, and form communities. Public Space/Contested Space illustrates the ways in which creative interventions in public space have constituted a significant dimension of contemporary political action, and how this space can both reflect and spur economic and cultural change. Drawing insight from a range of disciplines and fields, the essays in this volume assess the effectiveness of protest movements that deploy bodies in urban space, and social projects that build communities while also exposing inequalities and presenting new political narratives. With sections exploring the built environment, artists, and activists and public space, the book brings together the diverse voices to reveal the complexities and politicization of public space within the United States. Public Space/Contested Space provides a significant contribution to an understudied dimension of contemporary political action and will be a resource to students of urban studies and planning, architecture, sociology, art history, and human geography.

Author : Nicole Schröder
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3823362534

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Spaces and Places in Motion by Nicole Schröder Pdf

Author : Jane Griffiths,Adam Hanna
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030360672

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Architectural Space and the Imagination by Jane Griffiths,Adam Hanna Pdf

This book sheds light on the intimate relationship between built space and the mind, exploring the ways in which architecture inhabits and shapes both the memory and the imagination. Examining the role of the house, a recurrent, even haunting, image in art and literature from classical times to the present day, it includes new work by both leading scholars and early career academics, providing fresh insights into the spiritual, social, and imaginative significances of built space. Further, it reveals how engagement with both real and imagined architectural structures has long been a way of understanding the intangible workings of the mind itself.

Author : Paul Dobraszczyk
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781789141047

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Future Cities by Paul Dobraszczyk Pdf

Though reaching ever further toward the skies, today’s cities are overshadowed by multiple threats: climate change, overpopulation, social division, and urban warfare all endanger our metropolitan way of life. The fundamental tool we use to make sense of these uncertain city futures is the imagination. Architects, artists, filmmakers, and fiction writers have long been inspired to imagine cities of the future, but their speculative visions tend to be seen very differently from scientific predictions: flights of fancy on the one hand versus practical reasoning on the other. In a digital age when the real and the fantastic coexist as near equals, it is especially important to know how these two forces are entangled, and how together they may help us best conceive of cities yet to come. Exploring a breathtaking range of imagined cities—submerged, floating, flying, vertical, underground, ruined, and salvaged—Future Cities teases out the links between speculation and reality, arguing that there is no clear separation between the two. In the Netherlands, prototype floating cities are already being built; Dubai’s recent skyscrapers resemble those of science-fiction cities of the past; while makeshift settlements built by the urban poor in the developing world are already like the dystopian cities of cyberpunk. Bringing together architecture, fiction, film, and visual art, Paul Dobraszczyk reconnects the imaginary city with the real, proposing a future for humanity that is firmly grounded in the present and in the diverse creative practices already at our fingertips.