Description
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. From a social-cultural-and-ecological perspective, it explores the modes of engagement of all factors in the constitutional processes of inhabited space.
Throughout this interdisciplinary collection, built space is reconsidered in the light of other schools of thought such as philosophy, anthropology, social sciences and political theories and practices. It covers new ground at conceptual, epistemic and methodological levels, focusing on inhabited space from within the framework of globalisation, biopolitics, cultural changes, environmental crisis and new technologies. Organised into three parts, Parts 1 and 2 focus on the role of architects in the emergence of a new ethos for habitation, as well as the modalities of the inclusion of differences in design, discussing the importance of participation and narrative at a theoretical and practical level in architecture. In the third part, the chapters delve into questions regarding the intersection of design, ecology and technoscience in a posthuman approach, which might support the inclusion of differences in design and the emergence of a new environmental ethos.
Providing a stimulating landscape of arguments and challenges to new readings of architecture, society and the environment, this book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals of architecture, urban planning, anthropology and philosophy.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Timeless connections between society and builtscape
Introduction
Kyriaki Tsoukala
1. Public ethics and moral significance of landscape: Political correlations, bodily emancipation and neoteric bourgeois identity
Konstantinos Moraitis
2. Letters: 1519, 1796, 2020 - The architect's public discourse
Vassiliki Petridou
3. The three-dimensional ethos
Anastasios M. Kotsiopoulos
Part 2: Contemporary interweavings: Participatory social practices and inhabited space
Introduction
Kyriaki Tsoukala
4. Revisiting the practices and ethics of participatory design: Learning from contemporary Latin American examples
Stavros Stavrides
5. Co-design in real time: Research and design in Brussels and Valparaiso
David Vanderburgh
6. Place-making from the Urban Palimpsest
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
7. Architectural toolbar and art of dwelling: Antagonistic antinomies of a spatial ethos
Kyriaki Tsoukala
8. Spatial plots: Three epistemological models
Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou
Part 3: Contemporary interweavings: Socio-environmental inclusive approaches to inhabited space
Introduction
Kyriaki Tsoukala
9. Acting and spatial framing: Towards a political topology of the terrestrial
Yannis Stavrakakis
10. Space, biopolitics and democracy
Aris Stilianou
11. Eco-phenomenology and environmental ethics: Observations on topos with reference to Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky
Stavros Alifragkis
12. Technospatial entanglements of infrastructural bio-/politics
Chara Stergiou
13. Interwoven lines of cultural expressions
Nikolia-Sotiria Kartalou
14. ‘Posthuman’ architecture: Contemporary approaches of the human, technology, and nature within the built environment
Anastasia-Sasa Lada
