Guerrilla urbanism and digital production: a study of temporary occupation of public spaces

The digital production of hyper-rendered scenes has come to dominate architectural practice. Jean Baudrillard’s warning that simulation will replace the real is now obvious and ubiquitous in our wirelessly networked mediated lives. CAD monkeys, rendering farms, and out-sourcers form the cabal behind the global production of seductive computer generated imagery detached from real people and places. This paper builds on the premise that physical places, designed and marketed through digital imagery, set the stage for the “social scenes” of tourism, leisure and consumption, and that privatized public spaces become “images” in themselves. Providing a setting for ways of people seeing, and being seen by others, these images encourage us to mimic the poses and gestures of architectural renderings. Standing against our growing obsession with rendered architectural scenes suggests that, as digital modes of creation and representation increasingly become objectives in and of themselves, architectural practice is prone to blindness in the face of social developments which exist independently of architecture’s digital turn. The paper highlights the possible integration of the social and the technological through documenting a series of design, professional, and pedagogical projects which have, during the thirty-year period of architecture’s ‘digital turn’, increasingly incorporated ‘the digital’, but which have persistently continued to foreground the social.

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Children's Experience and Attitudes Towards the Police, Personal Safety and Public Spaces: Findings from the 2009/10 British Crime Survey Interviews with Children Aged 10 to 15

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e566952011-001 ◽

2011 ◽

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Personal Safety ◽

British Crime Survey ◽

Survey Interviews

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Navigating stigma in neighborhoods and public spaces among transgender and nonbinary adults in New York City.

Stigma and Health ◽

10.1037/sah0000219 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 477-487

Author(s):

Taylor M. Lampe ◽

Sari L. Reisner ◽

Eric W. Schrimshaw ◽

Asa Radix ◽

Raiya Mallick ◽

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Keyword(s):

New York ◽

New York City ◽

York City ◽

Public Spaces

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The function of urban public spaces in medium size cities in Greece. First evaluation for Chalkida, Greece

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference On Humanities, Psychology and Social Science ◽

10.33422/8hps.2018.10.116 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Efthimios Bakogiannis

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Medium Size

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Reconstruction Of Urban Parks Of Culture And Rest Of The Soviet Period

Promyshlennoe i Grazhdanskoe Stroitel stvo ◽

10.33622/0869-7019.2019.12.61-65 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 61-65

Keyword(s):

Public Space ◽

Senior Citizens ◽

Urban Parks ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Historical Background ◽

Soviet Period ◽

Limited Mobility ◽

Functional Zoning ◽

Functional Areas ◽

The City

This article analyzes the main problems of urban public spaces, because today public spaces can determine the future of cities. It is noted that parks are multifunctional public spaces in the urban environment, as they are an important element of the citywide system of landscaping and recreation, perform health, cultural, educational, aesthetic and environmental functions. The article notes that the need for easily accessible and well-maintained urban parks remains, however, the state of parks in many cities of Russia remains unsatisfactory, requiring reconstruction. A brief historical background of the Park of Culture and Rest of the Soviet period in Omsk is expounded, the analysis of the existing territory of the Park is presented. It is revealed that the Park, being the largest public space in Omsk, does not meet the requirements of modern urbanism, although it represents a great potential for designing the space for the purpose of recreation of citizens. Performed functional zoning scheme of the territory of the Park in question, where its division into functional areas destined for active recreational users of the Park is presented, considered the interests of senior citizens, people with limited mobility, etc. Reconstruction of Parks of the Soviet period can provide the city with additional recreational opportunities, as well as increase its tourist attractiveness.

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