Spatial Practices: Modes of Action and Engagement with the City - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0815351879 ISBN 13: 9780815351870

Publisher: Routledge, 2019

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0815351879
• ISBN 13: 9780815351870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Dodd Melanie