Interwoven lines of cultural expressions

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This paper proceeds by tracing Tim Ingold’s writings on the notion of meshwork (Ingold 2007) to encapsulate social interactions occurring within urban environments, and to support that the interrelations of humans and buildings (nonhumans) are in a constant process of negotiation and movement. A movement that affects and determines the production of space, whose mode of existence is under continuous development. This inter-action suggests that architecture’s modus operandi can be understood as a practice that is co-shaped and co-transformed by all participatory agents. Opposed to the Aristotelian hylomorphic schema of making (i.e. a finished-form-matter-relationship which signifies a télos), the meshwork indicates a variable state of becoming (Deleuze and Guattari 1987). This paper proposes to view social practices pertaining to the production of space as an amalgamation of the processes that contribute to a constant negotiation of matter and form, and to conceptualise urban environments as interwoven lines of cultural expressions. By considering culture as a practice of rituals, this paper advances the above theoretical framework with the example of a case study in Edinburgh (UK), in an attempt to demonstrate ways in which these correspondences can provide a paradigm for the conceptualisation of new architectural expressions.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Practices and City Spaces
Subtitle of host publicationTowards a Cooperative and Inclusive Inhabited Space
EditorsKyriaki Tsoukala
Place of PublicationMilton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
PublisherRoutledge
Chapter13
Pages190-204
Number of pages15
ISBN (Electronic)9781032562322
ISBN (Print)9781032562322
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2023

Publication series

NameRoutledge Research in Architecture
PublisherRoutledge

Type (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Architecture

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