Through a transdisciplinary perspective, this book examines the complex urban dimension, in front of increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic which proved megacities particularly inadequate to provide healthy psychophysical conditions. Assuming bodily and emotional comfort as a reference horizon, it tends to inspire the design research overcoming a paradoxical binary logic that separates public and private, outside and inside, culture and nature, mind and places. The first part of the work explores built spaces and addresses sustainable strategies not only to overcome an ecologic and systemic crisis but also to improve places liveability in our contemporary city. The second part deals with our perception of aesthetic spaces, welcoming the stimuli coming from neuro-aesthetics studies on affordances and atmosphere and encouraging the intersection between interior architecture and design culture and arts. The third part examines relational spaces and how they influence human behaviour, starting from psychological, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives.
The book benefits scholars and practitioners interested in interior architecture and design, as well as researchers involved in the relationship between people and places. The new challenge posed by the recent pandemic requires more than ever to rely on consciousness, culture and creativity to increase the intelligence of our surroundings, allowing our sense of belonging and improving our personal and mutual well-being.
Author(s): Anna Anzani
Series: Springer Series in Design and Innovation, 20
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 245
City: Cham
Foreword
Preface
Contents
Designing Our Built Space
Urban Open Space Design: What to Do?
1 Introduction
2 The New Wave of Urban Space
3 Imageability
4 Design and Scientific Thinking
5 Conclusion: What to Do?
References
The City Around: For an Urban Space at a Walking Pace
1 Introduction: Proximity as a Design Horizon
2 Towards a Walking City
3 Tactics for a City at Walking Pace
3.1 Designing a “15-min City”
3.2 Promoting the Event Dimension as a Material of Urban Living
3.3 Promoting a Graphitized and Prototypical City
3.4 Enhancing the Visual Quality of the Scenic Box
4 Conclusion
References
Design of the Ephemeral in Urban Spaces
1 Introduction
2 The Seeds of Counter-Revolution
3 The Milan Case
3.1 FuoriSalone: The Time Bomb
4 The Temporary/Permanent of Tactical Urbanism
5 Conclusion
References
Reading the Current Cities to Anticipate Their Changes
1 Introduction
2 Methodology: Reading Drivers
2.1 Key Aspects of Urban Design
2.2 Design Layers
3 Analysis: What if…
3.1 What if We Shape Cluster Cities?
3.2 What if We Shape Branded Cities?
3.3 What if We Build Event Cities?
3.4 What if We Build Social Cities?
3.5 What if We Build Augmented Cities?
4 Conclusion
References
Reuse of Contemporary City: Experience and Ecology
1 Introduction
2 Consciousness and Ecosystems
3 Experience of Places
3.1 Attractive Spaces
3.2 Fractals Appeal
4 Reuse Design in Contemporary City
5 Conclusion
References
Perceiving Our Aesthetic Space
Atmosphere Design of Urban Places. A Scientific Phenomenological Approach
1 Introduction
2 Atmosphere Is a Tertiary Quality
3 An Operational Definition of Atmosphere
4 Conclusion: The Self in the Atmosphere of Urban Places
References
Nature and Anti-Nature: Reflections on the Contemporary Cityscape
1 Introduction
2 Power to the Creativity
3 A Question of Terms or of Content?
4 We Are the Cities We Dwell
5 Conclusion: A New Icarus
References
Intangible Heritage of Bedouins: Habitat, Habitus and Representations of Nomadic Culture
1 The Intangible Heritage of the Bedouins
2 Habitat: the Intangible and Tangible Landscape in the Nomadic Culture
3 Habitus: the Bedouin Traditions of Black Tent in Jordan
4 Conclusions
References
Mapping Beauty: Narrating Relational Crossroads and Interior Pictures
1 Introduction
2 The City Between Identities, Crossroads and Relations
3 Beauty and Images: Movement Between Outside and Inside
4 Art, Reading and Relational Book Therapy
5 Conclusion
References
Semantic and Architectural Sound Space. Musical Creativity and Performance
1 Introduction
2 Embodied Music, Memory and Reuse
3 Music and Social Conditioning
4 Music and Neurosciences
5 Music Listening and Production
6 Music and Audience
7 Conclusion
References
Multisensory Perception: Implications for Architecture and Interior Design
1 Introduction
2 A Case Study
3 There are No “Senses”
4 Three Kinds of Multisensory Interaction
5 Multisensory Integration
6 Cross-Modal Correspondences
7 Synaesthesia
8 Conclusions
References
Dwelling Our Relational Space
Reinventing Relations: Healing Wounded Spaces and Times
1 “Crisis of the Crisis” and “Critique of the Critique”
2 Dwelling Together
3 Healing Time and Reuse
3.1 Healing and Health
3.2 Reuse
3.3 Urgence of Creation
4 Listenable Places
5 Conclusion
References
Living Painful Boundaries
1 Places in the Clinic
2 Dwelling Painful Boundaries
3 Taking Care of Places
3.1 Process
3.2 Memory
4 Conclusion
References
Being Together as a Body Exercise. Ethnographic Perspectives
1 The Pandemic City as a Lens on Spaces and Bodies
2 Ethnography as a “Full Contact” Match
3 Snow (and more) on 42nd Street
4 Flesh and Stone
5 The “Boundaries” of the Bells of St Mary-le-Bow
6 The Hidden Dimension
7 Conclusion
References
Edge-City, Bubble-City, Foam-City
1 Transition Landscapes
2 Instability of the Contemporary City
3 Disappearance of Agriculture
4 The Linguistic Turn as an Anthropological Symptom
5 Epistemology of the Edge
6 Differences by Cutting, Differences by Bending
7 Bubble-City, World-City, Foam-City
References
Inside and Beyond the Human City
1 There Is Life on the Planet
2 The City as a Laboratory of Human Totalitarianism
3 The Urgency of a New Urban Ecology
4 Biophilia and Biocentrism as a Guide for De-Planning the City
5 Conclusion
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