 | Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City Subjects: Arts; Built Environment; Geography; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; Development Studies Environment Social Work Urban Studies; Urban Studies; Art & Visual Culture; Internet & Multimedia – Computing & IT; Performance Theory - Practice and Practitioners; Design; Visual Arts; Media Technology; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; Urban Studies; Urban Communications & Technology; Urban Policy; Urban Politics; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; Urban Theory; Cities & Infrastructure; Cities & Infrastructure (Urban Studies); Architecture; Landscape; Planning; Human Geography; Media & Film Studies; Public Administration & Management; Sociology; Architectural Design Drawing and Presentation; Professional Practice; Theory of Architecture; Urban Landscape; City and Urban Planning; Community Planning and Planning Techniques; Planning Theory; Spatial and Regional Planning; Urban Design; Political Geography; Urban Geography; Planning - Human Geography; Media & Communications; Public Policy; Social Inequality; This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and the curatorial, the architectural and the urban. Acting upon and engaging with the public realm, the field of spatial practices allows people to reconnect with their own sense of agency through engagement in space and place, exploring and prototyping alternative futures in the here and now. The 24 chapters contain essays, visual essays and interviews, featuring contributions from an international set of experimental practitioners including Jeanne van Heeswijk (Netherlands), Teddy Cruz (Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, San Diego), Hector (USA), The Decorators (London) and OOZE (Netherlands). Beautifully designed with full colour illustrations, Spatial Practices advances dialogue and collaboration between academics and practitioners and is essential reading for students, researchers and professionals in architecture, urban planning and urban policy. Melanie Dodd leads Spatial Practices at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK, where she is also Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge, UK, and RMIT University, Australia. |
