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0000-0002-5232-1258
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UNSW Sydney
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University of New South Wales
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Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-2022
DOI: 10.1002/AD.2881
Abstract: The meanwhile use of properties provides a quick fix for the problems of urban blight and wasted building assets, but we also need to better consider the experiences of those who temporarily occupy them. Australian architect and Senior Lecturer in Interior Architecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Cathy Smith explains the concept of ‘meanwhile’ and illustrates some of the spatial opportunities that can be used to momentarily ease the precariousness that some of the world's populations find themselves in.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-05-2018
Publisher: Emerald
Date: 04-01-2021
DOI: 10.1108/JPMD-07-2019-0069
Abstract: This study aims to address the research gap about value in the holistic discourse of creative placemaking. It identifies and synthesises the often discounted social and environmental values of creative placemaking along with typically emphasised economic values. This paper builds upon two research phases first, a review and extraction of creative placemaking value indicators from relevant current urban, cultural and planning literature and second, the identification of relevant, practice-based, value indicators through interviews with 23 placemaking experts including practitioners, urban planners, developers and place managers from the two largest cities of NSW, Australia Sydney and Newcastle. This study identifies three broad thematics for valuing creative placemaking along with several sub-categories of qualitative and quantitative indicators. These indicators reveal the holistic value of creative placemaking for its key stakeholders, including expert placemakers, designers, building developers, government and community groups. A key conclusion of the research is the need for tools that grasp the interconnected, and at times conflicting, nature of placemaking’s social, economic and environmental outcomes. While a variety of value indicators exist to understand the need for ongoing resourcing of creative placemaking, stakeholders identified the limitations of current approaches to determine, represent and appraise the value of creative placemaking. The indicators of value proposed in this research consolidate and extend current discourse about the value of creative placemaking specifically. The indicators themselves have profound practical implications for how creative placemaking is conceived, executed and evaluated. Theoretically, the study builds on the deep relationships between values and practice in creative placemaking, as well as critiquing narrow forms of evaluation that entrench economic benefits over other outcomes.
Publisher: Australian Cities Research Network
Date: 2019
Publisher: Open Library of the Humanities
Date: 19-03-2014
DOI: 10.5334/AH.BD
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-08-2022
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-10-2015
Publisher: Intellect
Date: 06-2020
DOI: 10.1386/DES_00006_1
Abstract: This article explores nomadic site occupation as a form of planetary colonization involving both human and non-human agents. Conventional understandings of temporary occupation are often humancentric with little attention paid to the disruption of extant site ecologies and processes. The latter are particularly pressing concerns in nomadic settlements located in precarious landscapes. Taking the latter as its focus, this article engages the earth as an agent resisting its own colonization in the Australian-licensed squatter settlement known colloquially as Tin City. Located within the largest mobile sand dune structure in New South Wales, Tin City is an assemblage of several self-built fishing shacks accommodating a nomadic population. Its occupants engage in a daily battle against the shifting sands that threaten to subsume their temporary homes. Located in an area of significant indigenous heritage, the Tin City settlement has become a tourist attraction shrouded in local lore. Current discourses about it and its architectures generally focus on its unusual aesthetics, its contested sociopolitical histories and its ecology, with some discussion on the impacts of European colonization on the sand dune’s dynamic geomorphology. To concentrate on the latter, the article develops and deploys the posthumanist conceptualization of the earth posited by Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani in his ficto-critical text Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials . Negarestani ascribes the earth with sentient and agentic capacity, whilst the nomads who traverse its surfaces become the penultimate planetary colonizers. Tin City’s occupation thus becomes a story of colonization and resistance narrated by the earth itself, and a reminder that the production and consumption of architectural forms does not need to be confined to that which is conventionally human.
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-04-2021
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2008
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 08-02-2023
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