Private Struggles in Public Spaces: Documenting COVID-19 Material Culture and Landscapes

Dante Angelo; Kelly M. Britt; Margaret Lou Brown; Stacey L. Camp

doi:10.1558/jca.43379

‘The Visual Availability and Local Organisation of Public Surveillance Systems: The Promotion of Social Order in Public Spaces’

Sociological Research Online ◽

10.5153/sro.359 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 32-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mike Ball

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Material Culture ◽

Video Surveillance ◽

Rapid Growth ◽

Social Order ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Surveillance Systems ◽

Public Surveillance ◽

Material Environment

The empirical focus of the research reported in this paper is the recent rapid growth in public surveillance systems. It is now commonplace in Britain for certain “public” spaces to have video surveillance and for some stretches of public highways to have “Gatso” speed cameras located on them. The visual availability of items of material culture such as surveillance systems is introduced as an analytical organising principal for delineating the study of objects within the “seen” world. It is argued that we inhabit a palpable material environment of objects which has consequences for and impinges upon aspects of our practical decision making.

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Presentation of the Dossier

Caminhando ◽

10.15603/2176-3828/caminhando.v25n2p19-21 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (2) ◽

pp. 19-21

Author(s):

Frederico Pieper ◽

Luís Américo Silva Bonfim ◽

Helmut Renders - Translation of João Batista Ribeiro Santos

Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Material Culture ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Multiple Relationships ◽

Textual Studies ◽

Virtual Spaces ◽

Historical Texts ◽

Epistemological Foundation ◽

Material Studies

The eight texts in the dossier Religion, Material Culture and Visual Culture together prove the relevance of the theme for different areas of religious studies and theological studies: textual studies, including founding, ecclesiastical, doctrinal and historical texts; material studies, both archaeological and architectural, including public spaces; ritualistic studies, of bodies in movement and in multiple relationships, with people, with oneself, God, spaces and artifacts; and, last not least, visual studies, including logos, ornaments, religious, liturgical and religious arts, symbols and virtual spaces. All of this takes place in a descriptive, analytical way or deepens in its epistemological foundation, often still, in an interdisciplinary way, adding, not infrequently, to the research on religion established and considered consecrated new perspectives, representing new challenges.

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Gender and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Religious Women

Cambridge Archaeological Journal ◽

10.1017/s0959774300001621 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 119-136

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Religious Communities ◽

Textual Evidence ◽

Religious Women ◽

Ground Plan ◽

Theoretical Approaches ◽

Key Issues ◽

And Gender

Space and gender have been two of the ‘buzz words’ in archaeology over the last few years; and quite rightly so, since they identify two of the most crucial aspects of human experience. As we move around buildings today, we are all well aware of norms and restrictions — public spaces and doors marked ‘private’, lounges and bedrooms, stairways and corridors. We negotiate and respect these according to customs and habits learned mainly in childhood. What is true of our own society is true of every other society, past and present, and one of the challenges — not to say obligations — facing archaeologists is to gain some understanding of these spatial mores, even when presented with little more than a ground plan.In Gilchrist's case-study of medieval English nunneries, the evidence is rather more substantial. Not only has some of the fabric survived — both of churches and their associated buildings — but there is a rich body of textual information about the nunneries, the nuns who inhabited them, and the Christian symbolism and belief which underlay the whole institution.What better place to study gender and its material expression than in such a uniquely female institution as the medieval nunnery? Fezv would deny that archaeology can play a powerful role in helping us to understand these religious communities — enabling us to see beyond the confines of written records. The application of particular theoretical approaches, however, is somewhat more contentious. Just how well do they fit such a body of evidence? And on a subject where we already have a great deal of textual evidence, can study of the material remains — in layout of buildings, evidence of their use, and iconography — truly reveal new levels of meaning? In sum, how successful is this new analysis?These are among the key issues which are discussed in the following pages. As usual, we begin this Review Feature with an introduction by the author herself, Roberta Gilchrist. Then follow four contrasting reactions, from archaeologists and historians, rounded off by Gilchrist's reply. Whatever our assessment, the interplay of gender and space has profound and far-reaching significance, and raises issues that no serious historical archaeologist — or indeed prehistorian — can afford to ignore.

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Reactivating Urban Voids Through Sensory and Pop-Up Design

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.ch023 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 534-558

Author(s):

Cristian Suau

Keyword(s):

Material Culture ◽

Public Engagement ◽

Environmental Changes ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Social Value ◽

Outdoor Learning ◽

Place Making ◽

Waste Reuse ◽

Societal Challenges

This chapter reflects on the implementation of pop-up architecture and sensory gardens made with waste reuse in brownfields. The selected experiments, MOBILELAND© (2014-2016) and DOT TO DOT© (2017 onwards), investigate waste reuse as pop-up sensory reactivation of gap sites in Glasgow. Experiments explore constructive sensibilities embedded in material sensory by interlinking tangible place-making, sensory gardens, eco-design, and self-build solutions in public spaces. The cases underline design as sensory medium to effectively co-develop innovative environmental changes, societal challenges, and co-creation, including experiential outdoor learning and public engagement, throughout the reuse of waste applied in remaking by testing/piloting the C2C theoretical framework. Trials apply the principles of temporariness, portability, and sensory of waste as social value and material culture in cities. These live projects explore constructional and somatic sensibilities and critically investigate the cultural embodiment of material sensory by remaking.

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