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Reinvenzioni nel quotidiano. Didattica e ricerca sui conflitti tra forma e uso nello spazio domestico
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People Places Practices. The Architect’s Filter in Using Ethnography
No full text“Architectural ethnography” has attracted increasing attention thanks to studies by Albena Yaneva and practices and research carried out by Momoyo Kaijima with her Atelier Bow Wow. Starting from these well-known examples, this essay reviews the literature on ethnography as used by architects, planners and researchers interested in forms, materiality, and uses of space in everyday life.
This review is then used to define, through convergences and distances, a specific positioning we have been assuming while conducting research and teaching design-based courses. This path has led to further reflections on knowledge processes in architectural ethnography and to a tentative (and open) checklist to express our positioning in teaching. At the same time, the mainstream view on the innovative aspects of architectural ethnography is challenged by a reflection on the extent to which ‘tradition’ (in a positive sense) is apparent in this recent stream of research, given that good architects (and planners) have always been, in a certain sense, “ethnographic”
Architettura etnografica? Incipit, distanze, orizzonti per la ricerca e l’insegnamento
No full textLa così detta architectural ethnography ha visto crescere il proprio interesse grazie a studi recenti come quelli di Albena Yaneva e ai lavori e alle ricerche di Momoyo Kaijima con il suo Atelier Bow Wow. Prendendo le mosse da un interesse per le specificità dei percorsi etnografici quando sono messi in atto dagli architetti, ovvero da persone che dovrebbero avere una precisa sensibilità per la forma e per lo spazio, per le sue prati- che d'uso e per la sua materialità, l'articolo propone alcuni percorsi bibliografici tesi a definire una postura che negli ultimi anni abbiamo assunto nel fare didattica e ricerca per il progetto attraverso l'individuazione di convergenze e distanze con la letteratura esistente. Un percorso che ci ha portati a interrogarci sul ruolo della trascrizione (grafica, fotografica e testuale) nell'architectural ethnography, così come a mettere in tensione il ruolo di tradizione e innovazione in queste recenti esperienze
The Financialisation of Urban Policy in the UK: From Area-Based Initiatives to Area-Based Value-Capture
No full textThe chapter examines the post-war evolution of urban policy in the UK. It focuses on a series of periodic changes that reflect broader political projects and ways of thinking about cities and places. The first sections outline historical characterisations of urban policy, reflecting on where forms of intervention, usually called urban policy, have been developed and how these initiatives have worked in specific places. Continuities and discontinuities in urban policy are considered, looking at: early and more socially oriented programmes developed in the 1960s/70s and focused on inner cities, such as the Urban Programme or Community Development Projects; the shift towards an economically oriented approach operated by the Thatcher government through property-led regeneration in the late 1970s and during the 1980s; and the more nuanced socio-economic approaches of the Major and Blair eras of the 1990s and 2000s incorporating City Challenge and the Single Regeneration Budget. The last two sections are dedicated to recent shifts towards financialisation and growth-oriented development that have marked the period since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and propose some reflections on the future of urban policy
Metropolis. Sensory Ethnography Paths in the City of Differences
No full textThe chapter looks at the “city of differences” as at places where people increasingly live together in a radical condition of pluralism, the only element that they have in common being their presence in the space. The reference theoretical horizon is the one that looks at the everyday aspects of multiculturalism, observing the diversity experience in some specific places and paying attention to the conditions that generate openness, without denying those that lead to intolerance. Daily multiculturalism prefigures both an empirical investigation field and a methodological positioning capable of looking into the “fine grain” of the territories, through ethnographic research. Within this line of studies, we focus on how “being together” in contemporary cities is also a body exercise, a habit (and indifference) to sounds, smells, different skin colours, heterogeneous way of understanding what is proximity or distance. The perception of diversity, as well as everyday racism, derive also from multisensory experiences. The essay focuses on the role of multisensory perception in urban cohabitations: a research horizon still little explored outside sociological and ethnographic research, but which should be considered in observing, describing, designing and planning the spaces of the contemporary city
Etno-Graphs. The (textural, graphical, photographical) transcription of field observation as a specific pratice of architectural ethnography
No full textAllestimento mostra “Etno-Graphs. The (textural, graphical, photographical) transcription of field observation as a specific pratice of architectural ethnography” (22-26 maggio 2023) a cura di G. Postiglione, P. Briata, V. Saitto con N. Ambrosino, P. Buccaro, F. Casalino, L. Esposito, M. Masi, C. Priore, M. Russo presso l’ambulacro di Palazzo Gravina – Facoltà di Architettura, via Monteoliveto 3, Napoli
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