TY - CHAP
T1 - Interwoven lines of cultural expressions
AU - Kartalou, Nikolia
PY - 2023/11
Y1 - 2023/11
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Social-Practices-and-City-Spaces-Towards-a-Cooperative-and-Inclusive-Inhabited-Space/Tsoukala/p/book/9781032562322
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781032562322
T3 - Routledge Research in Architecture
SP - 190
EP - 204
BT - Social Practices and City Spaces
A2 - Tsoukala, Kyriaki
PB - Routledge
CY - Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon
ER -