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Som en landsby midt i byen
No full textDenne artikel tegner et antropologisk portræt af livet i Komponistkvarteret og Humleby anno 2015. To fredfyldte enklaver med hyggelige huse, blomstrende forhaver og børn, der leger i gaderne – og dog stadig midt i byen. Fra at være forslummede arbejderboliger med to eller tre familier per hus er kvartererne i dag blevet mondæne hjemsteder for drømmen om det gode liv i byen. Nu bebos husene i stigende grad af velstillede familier – typisk én per hus, hvor børnene kan få deres egen etage og bygge sæbekassebil i kælderen. Fællesskabet og traditionerne holdes i hævd, og her spiller de ældre beboere en vigtig rolle – de sætter fastelavnstønden op, udgiver beboerblade og værner om stedets særpræg gennem både skrevne og uskrevne regler. Man hjælper hinanden, understreger beboerne, men bor også så tæt, at man ikke kan tillade sig hvad som helst i de små for- og baghaver
Can Good Fences Make Good Neighbours?:Anthropological Explorations of Openness and Boundary-making in Architecture
No full text“There is no beauty in exclusion.” This statement was a key point in the design principles that came out from the UIA World Congress for Architects in Copenhagen, 2023. Yet, in this chapter, we argue that there is plenty of exclusion in beauty, as well as in architecture: Something or someone is usually left out. However, architectural boundaries do not just denote a line between an in- or outside/private or public, they are also porous and sites for social exchange. Based on ethnographic investigations of the use of architecture, we show that exclusion is at stake even in built environments aiming to be open and inclusive. We explore the ideals of transparent and open architecture as representing social openness and inclusion in both glass condominiums in Copenhagen’s new neighbourhoods and in temporary refugee housing. Across these examples, we ask: Are fences, walls, and borders not an essential element of cohabitation – do good fences not make good neighbours? This chapter argues that architecture mediates relations between people and their surroundings and that a key potential of combining architecture and anthropology could be to employ a more context-dependent understanding of contemporary processes of exclusion in the built environment.</p
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
Introduction:Critical Agendas and Contemporary Approaches to the Cross-Disciplinary Field of Architecture and Anthropology
No full textArchitecture and anthropology have always had overlapping interests, but a range of developments in both areas make it more relevant than ever to intersect, overlap, combine, or even merge the two disciplines. in anthropology, the spatial, material, and non-human turns have paved the way for an increasing interest in and need of changing the world, rather than just studying it. Architecture, beyond designing structures, has become interested in the uses and processes that unfold in, during, and after construction. Rapid climate change, ecological disasters, growing inequities, and humanitarian crises have also compelled a scrutinization of the entanglements of material, ecological, and socio-cultural worlds. When Claude Lévi-Strauss and Le Corbusier are relics of an age when “the Other” was still in place, what are the topics of urgency at the crosshairs of the disciplines? This introduction first outlines what has so far been achieved to bring architecture and anthropology together and then explores what challenges this cross-disciplinary field faces in present and future times. It further introduces the emergence, structure, and purpose of this Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology.</p
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