Spaces of Possibility

2016-07-01 History

Author : Clark W. Sorensen
Release : 2016-07-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 520/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spaces of Possibility written by Clark W. Sorensen. This book was released on 2016-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spaces of Possibility, which arose from a 2012 conference held at the University of Washington’s Simpson Center for the Humanities, engages with spaces in, between, and beyond the national borders of Japan and Korea. Some of these spaces involve the ambiguous longings and aesthetic refigurings of the past in the present, the social possibilities that emerge out of the seemingly impossible new spaces of development, the opportunities of genre, and spaces of new ethical subjectivities. Museums, colonial remains, new architectural spaces, graffiti, street theater, popular song, recent movies, photographic topography, and translated literature all serve as keys for unlocking the ambiguous and contradictory—yet powerful—emotions of spaces, whether in Tokyo, Seoul, or New York.

Spaces of Possibility

2016 Difference (Psychology)

Author : Clark W. Sorensen
Release : 2016
Genre : Difference (Psychology)
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Book Rating : 411/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spaces of Possibility written by Clark W. Sorensen. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z

Loose Space

2006-10-16 Architecture

Author : Karen Franck
Release : 2006-10-16
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 173/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Loose Space written by Karen Franck. This book was released on 2006-10-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban space loose continue to give cities life and vitality. The book examines physical spaces and how people use them. Contributors discuss a wide range of recreational, commercial and political activities; some are conventional, others are more experimental. Some of the activities occur alongside the intended uses of planned public spaces, such as sidewalks and plazas; other activities replace former uses, as in abandoned warehouses and industrial sites. The thirteen case studies, international in scope, demonstrate the continuing richness of urban public life that is created and sustained by urbanites themselves Presents a fresh way of looking at urban public space, focusing on its positive uses and aspects. Comprises 13 detailed, well-illustrated case studies based on sustained observation and research by social scientists, architects and urban designers. Looks at a range of activities, both everyday occurrences and more unusual uses, in a variety of public spaces -- planned, leftover and abandoned. Explores the spatial and the behavioral; considers the wider historical and social context. Addresses issues of urban research, architecture, urban design and planning. Takes a broad international perspective with cases from New York, London, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rome, Guadalajara, Athens, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Bangkok, Kandy, Buffalo, and the North of England.

Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility

2023-05-22 Nature

Author : Dirk Hoyer
Release : 2023-05-22
Genre : Nature
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Book Rating : 087/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility written by Dirk Hoyer. This book was released on 2023-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. It explores how new imaginaries, social experiments, and laboratories of societies can create spaces of possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and create new forms of social coherence. The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation, the rise of the ‘useless’ class, and outdated social welfare systems. It is a crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of inspiring political stories. In response to this, the book specifically focuses on the concept of ‘retopia’, the idea of creating inclusive spaces of social innovation that encourage active participation. Through the creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in ‘leftover’ spaces, such as Sicily, Western Latvia, or Northern Bulgaria, retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on ‘ruined spaces’. Retopia uncovers the common links and limitations of utopian studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the commons, and political geography. Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility is an articulation of the potentialities of social innovation, political imaginaries, and future images, provoking a stimulating discussion among scholars and students in the fields of Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies.

Geometric Possibility

2013-06-20 Science

Author : Gordon Belot
Release : 2013-06-20
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 051/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Geometric Possibility written by Gordon Belot. This book was released on 2013-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationalism seeks to ground all claims about the structure of space in facts about actual and possible configurations of matter. Gordon Belot elucidates the prospects for this view of the nature of space by investigating the key notion of geometric possibility in relation to philosophical notions of physical possibility.

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