scholarly journals The Transfigured Phenomena of Domesticity in the Urban Interior

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 56-77
Author(s):  
Valerie Mace

This paper reconsiders a refurbished London street, Bermondsey Street, as an interior where objects of memories are curated into a reconstructed atmosphere of domesticity.The study argues that as our experience of the city becomes increasingly transient, the notion of inhabiting shifts to a wider and more fragmented context, and our ability to integrate with the urban environment becomes eroded. Bermondsey Street, however, presents a distinctive experience where the phenomena of intimacy and familiarity converge across space and time to provide a more stable form of inhabitation. In order to understand how these phenomena occur and how the experience of the urban interior manifests itself in our consciousness, the study follows the Husserlian phenomenological method of intentionality whereby the urban interior of Bermondsey Street becomes the intentional object. It also places the reflective gaze of the phenomenologist in ‘epoché’, a phenomenological method of reduction that suspends normality. In doing so, the phenomenologist is able to access the points of reference that reveal the affective qualities of the intentional object in our consciousness.While the discursive and theoretical content of the study is expressed in the body of text, the phenomenological narrative is bracketed and illustrated as a meditative journey; a recollection of memories of the homely, initiated by the encounter between consciousness and the way the interior animates imagination. Thus, in ‘epoché’, the reflective gaze of the phenomenologist transcends normality to reveal the underlying structure of the phenomena and the intentionality of the subjective experience.

Author(s):  
Jean-Paul Thibaud ◽  
Pascal Amphoux

The notion of silence must be handled very carefully. In addition, its use reveals the way we deal with the urban environment as well as social life. What does the notion of silence convey about the current state of the urban sonic environment? How can we clarify the various meanings and the stakes involved in silence? Three themes are developed in order to answer these questions: silence as a research topic presents three complementary perspectives (acoustic, sociocultural, technological); silence as a polysemous notion emphasises the ideas of keeping quiet, tranquillity and pause; silence as a design issue relies on basic properties and principles in order to orient the design of the urban sonic environment.


2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Geel ◽  
Jaco Beyers

The apparatus theory is used to challenge the interpretation of religion and also to determine whether religion is a factor to contend with in modern society. Religion could be the element that keeps the city intact or could be the one element that is busy ruining our understanding of reality and the way this interacts with society in the urban environment. Paradigms determine our relationships. In this case, the apparatus theory would be a more precise way of describing not only our relationship towards the city but also the way in which we try to perceive our relationship with religion and the urban conditions we live in. This article gives theoretical background to the interpretation and understanding of the relationship between various entities within the city. The apparatus of the city creates space for religion to function as a binding form. Religion could bind different cultures, diverse backgrounds and create space for growth.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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James Fischer

<p>“Risk of urban disasters is no longer a phenomenon that we can stop, avoid or deter, but rather they are part of complex ecological processes from which we are inseparable and must design with, in preparation for the next imminent disaster.”  Miho Mazereeuw  (Mazereeuw, 2011. Pg 85)  Due to recent seismic activity across New Zealand, it has become widely speculated that Wellington is overdue for a major earthquake that could devastate the city. This has brought to light Wellington’s unique vulnerabilities and physical lack of preparedness to survive a significant natural disaster. Until recently, pre-disaster planning has looked towards both architectural and engineering solutions that focus on resisting or deterring the effects of a natural disaster, leaving landscape architecture as a post disaster clean up tool. This thesis aims to demonstrate the potential of landscape architecture within the field of pre-disaster planning, changing the way we adapt to natural disasters within the urban environment. This research will develop a preemptive strategy for Wellington’s Central Business District, or ‘CBD’ that utilises access ways and open space as emergency infrastructure to save lives in the event of a major earthquake, whilst enhancing the urban environment for day-to-day use.  This research proposes that access ways and open space are the catalyst in which landscape architecture could make a significant contribution to the pre-disaster planning of cities. More specifically, it tests the combination of a latent emergency infrastructure with quality urban design through a series of landscape architecture experiments that focus on Wellington’s CBD as a site for design exploration. This exploration challenges the way in which we design our urban environments to allow a level of flexibility in times of distress or natural disaster.  Overall this thesis will generate new ideas and creative solutions to the idea of urban resilience, indicating that, not only can landscape architecture make a significant contribution to pre-disaster planning, but that spaces designed for an emergency function can still enlighten our everyday experience of the city.</p>


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Eugenia Kalyuzhna ◽  
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Nina Savchenko ◽  

The article offers the results of an experimental study of the psychological characteristics of the corporeality of young women by the phenomenological method. The properties of a woman's consciousness as her phenomenological experience are substantiated. Sensory cognition has been shown to be a true form of cognition, but consciousness interprets phenomena, and phenomenological experience is possible only through reflection specifically aimed at personal subjective experience. It is established that physical experience allows a woman to understand the environment, to integrate into it. The objectives of the study were to determine indicators of psychosomatic potential, competencies of verbalization of the bodily self and the locus of bodily control of young women; generalization of indicators of types of self-awareness and self-reflection of bodily potential of young women. It was found that the sample consisted of women who did not have serious mental disorders, so the mental ability to see in the body the cause and effect of events in the internal and external space of man for these women is quite developed. The positive values ​​of self-awareness and self-reflection of the bodily potential of young women confirmed the positive emotional tone. Such psychological features of corporeality in young women in the context of phenomenology as: indicators of psychosomatic potential, competence of verbalization of bodily self and locus of bodily control, types of self-awareness and self-reflection of bodily potential are determined. The results of the study allowed us to state that the conformal type of self-reflection of bodily potential prevails among women and it can be argued that women aged 20 to 35 years are characterized by an insufficient level of self-reflection of bodily potential. In the future it is necessary to investigate the deep psychological conditionality of physicality in young women.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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James Fischer

<p>“Risk of urban disasters is no longer a phenomenon that we can stop, avoid or deter, but rather they are part of complex ecological processes from which we are inseparable and must design with, in preparation for the next imminent disaster.”  Miho Mazereeuw  (Mazereeuw, 2011. Pg 85)  Due to recent seismic activity across New Zealand, it has become widely speculated that Wellington is overdue for a major earthquake that could devastate the city. This has brought to light Wellington’s unique vulnerabilities and physical lack of preparedness to survive a significant natural disaster. Until recently, pre-disaster planning has looked towards both architectural and engineering solutions that focus on resisting or deterring the effects of a natural disaster, leaving landscape architecture as a post disaster clean up tool. This thesis aims to demonstrate the potential of landscape architecture within the field of pre-disaster planning, changing the way we adapt to natural disasters within the urban environment. This research will develop a preemptive strategy for Wellington’s Central Business District, or ‘CBD’ that utilises access ways and open space as emergency infrastructure to save lives in the event of a major earthquake, whilst enhancing the urban environment for day-to-day use.  This research proposes that access ways and open space are the catalyst in which landscape architecture could make a significant contribution to the pre-disaster planning of cities. More specifically, it tests the combination of a latent emergency infrastructure with quality urban design through a series of landscape architecture experiments that focus on Wellington’s CBD as a site for design exploration. This exploration challenges the way in which we design our urban environments to allow a level of flexibility in times of distress or natural disaster.  Overall this thesis will generate new ideas and creative solutions to the idea of urban resilience, indicating that, not only can landscape architecture make a significant contribution to pre-disaster planning, but that spaces designed for an emergency function can still enlighten our everyday experience of the city.</p>


2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Christopher James Cox ◽  
Mirko Guaralda

It could be argued that architecture has an inherent social responsibility to enrich the urban and spatial environments for the city’s occupants. However, how we define quality, and how ‘places’ can be designed to be fair and equitable, catering for individuals on a humanistic and psychological level, is often not clearly addressed. Lefebvre discusses the idea of the ‘right to the city’; the belief that public space design should facilitate freedom of expression and incite a sense of spatial ownership for its occupants in public/commercial precincts. Lefebvre also points out the importance of sensory experience in the urban environment. “Street-scape theatrics” are performative activities that summarise these two concepts, advocating the ‘right to the city’ by way of art as well as providing sensual engagement for city users. Literature discusses the importance of Street-scape Theatrics however few sources attempt to discuss this topic in terms of how to design these spaces/places to enhance the city on both a sensory and political level. This research, grounded in political theory, investigates the case of street music, in particular busking, in the city of Brisbane, Australia. Street culture is a notion that already exists in Brisbane, but it is heavily controlled especially in central locations. This study discusses how sensory experience of the urban environment in Brisbane can be enriched through the design for busking; multiple case studies, interviews, observations and thematic mappings provide data to gather an understanding of how street performers see and understand the built form. Results are sometime surprisingly incongruous with general assumptions in regards to street artist as well as the established political and ideological framework, supporting the idea that the best and most effective way of urban hacking is working within the system. Ultimately, it was found that the Central Business District in Brisbane, Australia, could adopt certain political and design tactics which attempt to reconcile systematic quality control with freedom of expression into the public/commercial sphere, realism upheld. This can bridge the gap between the micro scale of the body and the macro of the political economy through freedom of expression, thus celebrating the idiosyncratic nature of the city.


Author(s):  
Mariana Chaves

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo está dándose la convivencia de los habitantes de una ciudad intermedia en Argentina. Y particularmente entre los jóvenes, ya que es en ellos donde se están articulando de diferente manera los referentes del modelo. Ellos son los que nacieron y se socializan en este nuevo contexto. La reflexión sobre la manera en que esto está sucediendo nos da las pistas para vislumbrar las transformaciones que éstan estableciéndose. Específicamente sostengo la hipótesis de que está sucediendo un avance - o una concreción - de un tipo de socialización particular: una socialización en espacios homogéneos que conduce - o aporta - al aislamento social. Abordo el tema a través de las problemáticas de segregación urbana, segmentación educativa, socialización familiar, uso diferencial del espacio y del tiempo y expansión de miedos en la ciudad. Abstract This paper analyzes the coexistence of inhabitants of a medium sized city in Argentina, focusing particularly on young people and socialization in a new context. Reflection about the way in which this is happening allows us to glimpse the transformations that are being established. Specifically I support the hypothesis that a particular type of socialization is taking place: a socialization in homogenous spaces that leads - or contributes - to social isolation. I approach the topic through the problems of urban segregation, educational segmentation, family socialization, differential use of space and time, and expansion of fears in the city.


2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Velimir Stojanović

The structures and the functions of a city, its morphology, numerous elements of created places have an identity recognisable in the past, present and future. This identity is visible and noticeable. It is remembered and its represents the picture of a city at any chosen time and space. It is present and repeatable both in real time and space and in our imagined world. It represents a sum of chosen pictures of space in a certain time. The subjective experience of the city (place) is thus equalled with the discontinuity of processes and flows of the city development and what a city is and what it should be. Spatially – time continuity of the development of the city is much more complicated and complex picture that, unfortunately, is not visible and memorised enough unless based on deeper analytical procedure and supported by technical – technological systems of contemporary simulation and modelling of space and time. The city is a continuous creation where only the part of its reality and our experience is visible. The other part consists of invisible processes that maintain this continuity and that need not be clearly visible and familiar. They are obtained by mentioned analyses of integrated space and time (space-time) and represent a sort of balance to the visible state of a city structure. The architects and urbanists, but also other participants in the creation and maintenance of city content need that balance in the process of giving thought out procedures and guidelines for planning and design where the knowledge on the relation of causes and consequences is inevitable.


Author(s):  
Ligia de Carvalho Abões Vercelli

Este texto tem por objetivo discutir a concepção de criança por meio da linguagem cinematográfica, mais precisamente do filme “Uma professora muito maluquinha”, fundamentado no livro homônimo de Ziraldo. O filme se passa na década de 1940, período pós-Segunda Guerra Mundial, na cidade de São João Del Rei, interior do Estado de Minas Gerais. Catarina Roque, a professora muito maluquinha, depois de formar-se, retorna à sua cidade natal para lecionar em uma turma de uma escola primária. Com sua graça, extroversão e beleza, ela encanta a todos na cidade, exceto suas colegas de trabalho e a diretora da escola, que se incomodam com o método de ensino revolucionário utilizado por ela. Em função de sua metodologia inovadora e da forma como trata as crianças, estas se encantaram com Catarina e começam a gostar da escola, de entendê-la como o espaço para descobrir o mundo. Como docente, Catarina não impõe que a aprendizagem ocorra por meio dos livros didáticos, mas, sobretudo, pela experiência, pelos sentidos, pela ludicidade e pela expressão corporal, pois tem consciência de que o corpo em movimento é a matriz do conhecimento.Palavras-chave: Linguagem audiovisual. Percepção de criança. Educação significativa. Metodologia inovadora. Escola.AbstractThis paper aims to discuss the child from conception through the cinematic language, more precisely, the movie “Uma professor maluquinha”, in a free translation: “A very nutty teacher”, based on the namesake book by Ziraldo. The film is set in the 1940s, post World War II period, in the city of São João del Rei, in the state of Minas Gerais. Catherine Roque, the very little crazy teacher, after graduating returns to her hometown to teach in a classroom of a primary school. With her grace, extroversion and beauty charms everyone in the city, except her colleagues and the school director who are bothered by the revolutionary teaching method used by her. Because of her innovative methodology and the way she treats children, kids were enchanted with Catherine and begin to enjoy school, to understand it as the space to discover the world. As a teacher, Catherine does not require learning occurs through textbooks, but especially by the experience, the way, the playfulness and the body language, because she is aware that the moving body is the matrix of knowledge.Keywords: Audiovisual language. Perception of children. Meaningful education. Innovative methodology. School.ResumemEste texto tiene por objetivo discutir una concepción de la infancia por medio de la gramática cinematográfica, más precisamente, de “Una profesora muy loca”, basado en un libro homónimo de Ziraldo. La película se pasa en la década de 1940, período de la segunda guerra mundial, en la ciudad de São João Del Rei, interior del estado de Minas Gerais. Catarina Roque, una profesora muy loca, después de formarse, volver a su ciudad natal para enseñar en una turma de una escuela primaria. Como es una persona graciosa, divertida y bella encanta a todos en la ciudad, excepto entre las personas de su trabajo y la directora, que incomoda con su método de enseñanza revolucionario utilizado por ella. En suma de su metodología de innovación y de la forma como trata los niños, estas se encantarán con Catarina y empezará a gustar la escuela, entenderla como el espacio para descubrir el mundo. Como docente, Catarina no impone la enseñanza por el medio de los libros didácticos, pero, sobretodo, por experiencia, por los sentidos, por el lúdico y por la expresión corporal, por la conciencia de que el cuerpo en movimiento es una matriz del conocimiento.Palabras clave: Audiovisual lenguaje. Percepción del niño. Educación significativa. Metodología innovadora. Escuela.


2016 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
Fabiana Lopes Joaquim ◽  
Rose Mary Costa Rosa Andrade Silva ◽  
Eliane Ramos Pereira

Aims: to comprehend how people who live with chronic venous ulcers perceive  their  existence  towards  these  lesions;  to  describe  and  analyse,  from  the perspective of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, how these people comprehend their own existence.  Method:  this  is  a  study  of  a  qualitative  approach  using  a  descriptive phenomenological  method.  Study  setting:  Outpatient  Wound  Healing  Centre  of  the teaching  hospital  Antônio  Pedro,  located  in  the  city  of  Niterói,  Rio  de  Janeiro.    Study subjects: adults and elderly who live with chronic venous ulcers and who are currently in outpatient  treatment.  For  data  collection,  it  will  be  used  the  Protocol  I  B  -  Adapted  - Evaluation  of  patients  with  venous  ulcers  (registered  in  PROAP/UFF);  the  script  of  a phenomenological interview and the record of the expressions related to the narrative of the body. Data will be collected according to the phenomenological method proposed by Amedeo  Giorgi  and  discourse  analysis  will  be  implemented  based  on the  framework  of Merleau-Ponty.


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