ORCID Profile
0000-0002-2184-7249
Current Organisation
Deakin University
Does something not look right? The information on this page has been harvested from data sources that may not be up to date. We continue to work with information providers to improve coverage and quality. To report an issue, use the Feedback Form.
Publisher: Università degli Studi di Torino
Date: 2019
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Date: 2006
Publisher: IGI Global
Date: 2018
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3637-6.CH023
Abstract: This chapter reflects on the implementation of pop-up architecture and sensory gardens made with waste reuse in brownfields. The selected experiments, MOBILELAND© (2014-2016) and DOT TO DOT© (2017 onwards), investigate waste reuse as pop-up sensory reactivation of gap sites in Glasgow. Experiments explore constructive sensibilities embedded in material sensory by interlinking tangible place-making, sensory gardens, eco-design, and self-build solutions in public spaces. The cases underline design as sensory medium to effectively co-develop innovative environmental changes, societal challenges, and co-creation, including experiential outdoor learning and public engagement, throughout the reuse of waste applied in remaking by testing iloting the C2C theoretical framework. Trials apply the principles of temporariness, portability, and sensory of waste as social value and material culture in cities. These live projects explore constructional and somatic sensibilities and critically investigate the cultural embodiment of material sensory by remaking.
Publisher: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Date: 23-12-2014
DOI: 10.3846/20297955.2014.987368
Abstract: Mega-slums are dynamic laboratories for urban pattern making. Instead of surveying about stable urban symbols represented by formal orders and regular geometries, this study explores the semantic meaning of informal urbanism associated with chaos or randomness and often ignored by critique and conventions. Slums are forms of ‘instant urbanity’ that underscore alternative ways of self-organisation, which include bottom-up strategies, autonomous urban dynamics and spatial activation by remaking. Are slum patterns representing a lack of symbolism or, on contrary, rich, complex, and fluid urban idioms? Urban informality without planning offers immense opportunities to investigate resilient urban forms and languages as complex systems throughout self-ruled structures. Slums are not only the result of urban economic asymmetries and social marginalisation but the elementary construction of survival urbanism, a randomised, agile and transformative pattern system. Slum making is a form of subsistence urbanity that constructs transitory, elusive or spontaneous geometries. They differ in sizes, magnitudes and geometries regarding cultural, climatic and topographic conditions. Slums are unstable systems in continuous transformation. This essay questions the stigmatisation of informalised urban patterns as ‘other’ unclassified codes by analysing a selection of twenty mega-slums in the Americas, Africa and Asia regarding semantics, urban and geometrical meanings. Their urban tissues contain various symbols that activate the every-day production of spaces. They can be visible or invisible passive or active and formal or informal. A taxonomic tree of slums was developed to compare and map slum regions to describe similarities and differences among the selected case studies. From this analysis, a profound discourse appeared between informal settlements: tissue-patterns at macro level and cell-patterns in micro urbanisation. Does the macro pattern inform the micro, or vice versa?
Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
Date: 31-12-2015
Publisher: Riga Technical University
Date: 14-04-2015
DOI: 10.7250/AUP.2014.002
Start Date: 1995
End Date: 1997
Funder: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2012
End Date: 2012
Funder: Illinois Institute of Technology
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2014
End Date: 2014
Funder: University of Strathclyde
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2013
End Date: 2015
Funder: Cardiff University
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1997
End Date: 1998
Funder: Ministerio de Educación
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2002
End Date: 2002
Funder: Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1998
End Date: 1998
Funder: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 1996
End Date: 1999
Funder: Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2003
End Date: 2004
Funder: Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2004
End Date: 2006
Funder: Norges Teknisk-Naturvitenskapelige Universitet
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2004
End Date: 2006
Funder: Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca
View Funded ActivityStart Date: 2010
End Date: 2010
Funder: Cardiff University
View Funded Activity