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Looking out, taken in. The practice of viewing in new Danish High-rise dwellings
Full text linkLooking out, taken in. The practice of viewing in new Danish High-rise dwellingsMarcel De Certeau’s description of the panoptic gaze from the top of World Trade Center (1980) has dominated studies on high-rise living underscoring the distance between the lived life on the street and the omniscient, but de-bodied view. Consequently, looking out is seen as a practice of estrangement put on residents in high-rise dwellings. However, a growing body of ethnographic studies are currently challenged this stereotypical understanding, adding more nuanced perspective to the performative and sensuous act of seeing. As part of the project Vertical Residential Living: Updated Knowledge on Housing Culture and Social Life in Danish Residential High-Rises (2020–2021), the paper analyses more than 50 semi-structured interviews with residents and field observations in homes in new high-rises in Denmark. Reflecting on the complex links between residents’ homes and the practice of viewing, the paper presents three findings: First, the view is ranked as the most dominating housing quality in high-rises giving residents access to light and sky, even in dense urban areas. Second, the view has a performative effect on the material culture and domestic practices of the residents. Third, the view allows residents to establish new emotional and practical relations to the outside surroundings. Against this background, the paper suggests nuancing the practice of viewing as a performative force turning the view from high-rises into an inward reconfiguring the private space of the inhabitant living in the sky.TO CITE: Mechlenborg, Mette: Looking out, taken in. The practice of viewing in new Danish High-rise dwellings. Presentation at Privacy Matters. How Interiors make and break our Cities. Conference. The Royal Academy, April 2023.<br/
High Neighbor!:Residents’ Social Practices in New Danish High-Rises
Full text linkHistorically, Denmark—like the other Nordic countries—has had relatively few, and relatively low residential high-rise buildings compared to other urbanized countries. Inspired by an international vertical urban turn, however, multiple high-rises have now been planned and built. This has refueled the debate on whether living in high-rises is compatible with Danish housing culture and our high standard of social life. From this local perspective, the paper wishes to contribute to the emerging scholarship using an ethnographic approach to social life in high-rises while drawing on theories of practice and concepts of home. As part of the project Vertical Residential Living: Updated Knowledge on Housing Culture and Social Life in Danish Residential High-Rises (2020–2021), the paper analyses more than 50 semi-structured interviews with residents and field observations of various social spaces in eight new high-rises in Denmark. Reflecting on the complex links between residents’ homes, social practices, and shared spaces, the paper presents three findings: First, vertical social life starts horizontally at the front door, outside one’s home. Second, the character of social life taking place at the floor level is pivotal for entering the vertical community, and architecture, design, and interior are important here. Third, the paper indicates that Danish home culture is echoed in residents’ social practices in high-rises. Against this background, the paper suggests that researchers also incorporate a more local and home-centered perspective on social practices, while studying – and planning - vertical neighborhoods.Historically, Denmark—like the other Nordic countries—has had relatively few, and relatively low residential high‐rise buildings compared to other urbanized countries. Inspired by an international vertical urban turn, however, multiple high‐rises have now been planned and built. This has refueled the debate on whether living in high‐rises is compatible with Danish housing culture and our high standard of social life. From this local perspective, the article wishes to contribute to the emerging scholarship using an ethnographic approach to social life in high‐rises while drawing on theories of practice and concepts of home. As part of the project “Vertical Residential Living: Updated Knowledge on Housing Culture and Social Life in Danish Residential High‐Rises” (2020–2021), the article analyses more than 50 semi‐structured interviews with residents and field observations of various social spaces in eight new high‐rises in Denmark. Reflecting on the complex links between residents’ homes, social practices, and shared spaces, the article presents three findings: First, vertical social life starts horizontally at the front door, outside one’s home. Second, the character of social life taking place at the floor level is pivotal for entering the vertical community, and architecture, design, and interior are important here. Third, the article indicates that Danish home culture is echoed in residents’ social practices in high‐rises. Against this background, the article suggests that researchers also incorporate a more local and home‐centered perspective on social practices, while studying—and planning—vertical neighborhoods.</p
Reintegrating Ghettos into Society - Lessons Learned from the Danish Ghetto Strategy
Full text linkIn 2010, the Danish government launched a ghetto strategy with 32 initiatives in order to “dissolve parallel communities” in Danish housing areas and to (re)integrate them into Danish society (Statsministeret, 2010). Despite its negative offspring in the Muhammed riots (Freiesleben 2016, Houlind 2016), the strategy arguably presented a strategy for revalorization of space and, thereby, a new strategic approach combining social and physical initiatives in order to permanently transform deprived housing areas in a Danish contexts. With the ghetto strategy, Denmark is aligned with similar international regeneration programmes in order to close the socio-economic gap between housing areas and residents. Based on the recent architectural evaluation of social housing renewals for the Danish National Building Foundation (Bech-Danielsen & Mechlenborg 2017) and with a Lefebvrean perspective of a spatial trialectic (Lefebvre 1974/1991, Soja 1998), this paper reflects on the why Danish – like international - transformations are not able to realise the potential of the initiatives in the strategy. What are the effects of the initiatives they dorealise? And what does that tell us about the social impact of physical transformation in relation to the overall aim of the ghetto strategy?In 2010, the Danish government launched a ghetto strategy with 32 initiatives in order to “dissolve parallel communities” in Danish housing areas and to (re)integrate them into Danish society (Statsministeret, 2010). Despite its negative offspring in the Muhammed riots (Freiesleben 2016, Houlind 2016), the strategy arguably presented a strategy for revalorization of space and, thereby, a new strategic approach combining social and physical initiatives in order to permanently transform deprived housing areas in a Danish contexts. With the ghetto strategy, Denmark is aligned with similar international regeneration programmes in order to close the socio-economic gap between housing areas and residents. Based on the recent architectural evaluation of social housing renewals for the Danish National Building Foundation (Bech-Danielsen & Mechlenborg 2017) and with a Lefebvrean perspective of a spatial trialectic (Lefebvre 1974/1991, Soja 1998), this paper reflects on the why Danish – like international - transformations are not able to realise the potential of the initiatives in the strategy. What are the effects of the initiatives they dorealise? And what does that tell us about the social impact of physical transformation in relation to the overall aim of the ghetto strategy
What's it like to live in a high-rise?
No full textMette Mechlenborg, senior researcher at Aalborg University, is the co-author of a new study on life in Danish high-rise residential buildings—the first of its kind in over fifty years. This long gap is partly due to Denmark's historical reluctance to embrace high-rise living, especially for families. However, the landscape is shifting, with several tall towers now rising near Copenhagen's city center and more on the way. So, what has changed since the last study? In this episode of Let’s Talk Architecture, host Michael Booth meets Mette at Nordbro in Nørrebro, one of the buildings featured in her research. Together, they explore the qualities of high-rise living and ask the question: Can Danish families truly live happy and fulfilling lives 100 metres above the ground?Mette Mechlenborg, senior researcher at Aalborg University, is the co-author of a new study on life in Danish high-rise residential buildings—the first of its kind in over fifty years. This long gap is partly due to Denmark's historical reluctance to embrace high-rise living, especially for families. However, the landscape is shifting, with several tall towers now rising near Copenhagen's city center and more on the way. So, what has changed since the last study? In this episode of Let’s Talk Architecture, host Michael Booth meets Mette at Nordbro in Nørrebro, one of the buildings featured in her research. Together, they explore the qualities of high-rise living and ask the question: Can Danish families truly live happy and fulfilling lives 100 metres above the ground? Let's Talk Architecture is a podcast by the Danish Architecture Center
Hjemme i globaliseringen
Full text linkI nærværende artikel er det min hensigt at sætte fokus på den aktuelle dyrkelse af hjemmet, som har pustet liv i en diskussion om hjemmets rolle i globaliseringsteorierne. I dag synes udfordringen ikke at forstå globaliseringen over for det forankrede hverdagsliv, men at forsøge at etablere en dialog mellem de to.
Ved at sætte begrebet hjem centralt i forhold til teorier om mobilitet, modernisering og globalisering, vil denne artikel sætte fokus på kløften mellem stereotype opfattelser af globaliseringen og ind-groede myter om hjem og hverdagsliv. Teoretisk og metodisk er artiklen placeret i feltet mellem boligforskning, kulturstudier og globaliserings-forskningen. Med udgangspunkt i Marshall Bermans modernitetsopfattelse og Mieke Bals tværkulturelle teori om "rejsende koncepter" gennemgås en række kanoniserede ideer om hjem og globalisering, idet hensigten er at åbne op for en mere nuanceret, tidssvarende definition af det globaliserede hjem. Af referencer kan nævnes Zygmunt Bauman, David Morley, John Tomlinson og Agnes Heller.
ENGELSK ABSTRACT:
Mette Mechlenborg: At Home in Globalisation?
The recent renaissance of home in culture and media has reactivated a discussion about the role of anchor in the theories of globalisation. It has also revived the discussion of the consequences of globalisation in everyday life. Today the challenge is not so much to understand the difference between a homebound life and globalisation, but to establish a dialogue between the two.
By trying to place home in the center of theories on mobility, modernity and globalisation, this article focuses on the gap between traditional understandings of globalisation and myths of everyday life and home. Theoretically and methodically this article lies in the field between housing research, cultural studies and theories of globalisation. It is embedded in the writings of Marshall Berman and in Mieke Bal’s theory of “travelling concepts“, developed for interdisciplinary studies, but goes through a range of canonised publications and writings dealing with the gap between home and globalisation as it tries to open up for a more up to date and post modern definition of the globalised home.
Key words: Globalisation, home, everyday life, mobility, theory
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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