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Place Making (place + making)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	50%

Selected Abstracts

Community-Driven Place Making

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 1 2003
The Social Practice of Participatory Design in the Making of Union Point Park
In neighborhoods throughout major American cities, grassroots efforts in community revitalization are reshaping the public processes and institutional framework involving the design and development of public space. Treating the public realm as both a physical space and an expression of relationships between multiple institutions, organizations, and individuals, this study examines the social and political epistemologies and processes behind the creation of a waterfront park in Oakland, California. It also presents a framework of community-driven practice in the making of the public realm, based on converging theories of social movements and planning and a critique of the current participatory design model. [source]

DISLOCATING SOUNDS: The Deterritorialization of Indonesian Indie Pop

CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
BRENT LUVAAS
ABSTRACT Anthropologists often read the localization or hybridization of cultural forms as a kind of default mode of resistance against the forces of global capitalism, a means through which marginalized ethnic groups maintain regional distinctiveness in the face of an emergent transnational order. But then what are we to make of musical acts like Mocca and The Upstairs, Indonesian "indie" groups who consciously delocalize their music, who go out of their way, in fact, to avoid any references to who they are or where they come from? In this essay, I argue that Indonesian "indie pop," a self-consciously antimainstream genre drawing from a diverse range of international influences, constitutes a set of strategic practices of aesthetic deterritorialization for middle-class Indonesian youth. Such bands, I demonstrate, assemble sounds from a variety of international genres, creating linkages with international youth cultures in other places and times, while distancing themselves from those expressions associated with colonial and nationalist conceptions of ethnicity, working-class and rural sensibilities, and the hegemonic categorical schema of the international music industry. They are part of a new wave of Indonesian musicians stepping onto the global stage "on their own terms" and insisting on being taken seriously as international, not just Indonesian, artists, and in the process, they have made indie music into a powerful tool of reflexive place making, a means of redefining the very meaning of locality vis-à-vis the international youth cultural movements they witness from afar. [source]

Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place of Technology

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 3 2001
Simon Guy
This paper examines the relationships between diverse technical design strategies and competing conceptions of ecological place making. It highlights the conceptual challenges involved in defining what we mean by calling a building "green" and outlines a social constructivist perspective on the development of sustainable architecture. The paper identifies six alternative logics of ecological design which have their roots in competing conceptions of environmentalism, and explores the ways in which each logic prefigures technological strategies and alternative visions of sustainable places. Finally, the paper discusses the implications of the contested nature of ecological design for architectural education, practice, and research. [source]

Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year-round playground

THE CANADIAN GEOGRAPHER/LE GEOGRAPHE CANADIEN, Issue 2 2005
Luis L.M. Aguiar
A keen interest in place making and place selling is widespread in contemporary society. While the bulk of academic research has focused on studying the restructuring of large urban conglomerates, places beyond the exploding metropolis, by comparison, have received little attention, especially when it concerns Canadian landscapes. In an attempt to study the particularities of place making in contemporary smaller, more isolated communities,hinterlands,this work analyses the city of Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada. We argue that historically Kelowna, a small rural community specialising in ranching, forestry and fruit production, since the early 1980s, has been re-imagined and re-designed, on the one hand as an all-year playground and as an innovative frontier for high-tech industries; on the other hand, this post-Fordist reinvention contains a discourse of ,whiteness', one that entices by packaging ,place' in terms of ,sameness' and ,familiarity'. In contrast to large cosmopolitan post-industrial cities, hinterland-type cities are invented, sought and lived as geographies cleared from the ,elements' that make cities ,unsafe'. L'étude de la fabrication et de la vente du lieu suscite beaucoup d'intérêt dans la société contemporaine. Alors que la plupart des travaux académiques se sont concentrés sur la restructuration des grandes agglomérations urbaines, leurs périphéries qui font parti du paysage canadien ont reçu peu d'attention. Afin de comprendre les processus qui entre en jeu dans la fabrication du lieu des communautés plus petites et plus isolées de l'arrière-pays, nous avons étudié la ville de Kelowna en Colombie Britannique au Canada. Notre argument est qu'une petite communauté avec un riche passé agricole et une économie basée sur l'exploitation de ressources naturelles, Kelowna s'est re-imaginée et re-définie, dans un premier temps comme site de villégiature toute saison, et aussi comme centre de recherche de haute technologie. Dans un deuxième temps, cette ré-invention post-fordiste contient un discours de ,whiteness, qui encourage la création d'un espace socialement homogène. En contrepartie au post-industrialisme des grands centres métropolitains, les villes de l'arrière-pays sont inventées, recherchées et vécus comme des lieus géographiques où il fait bon vivre, ou les dangers généralement associés aux grandes villes y sont absents. Notre but est donc de comprendre le caractère unique qui contribue à la fabrication du lieu dans les sociétés de l'arrière-pays. [source]