Atmospheres at the Heart of the Urban Design Processes

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Abstract

Cities, comprised as they are of an interplay of profuse and varied sensory
qualities contain atmospheres that touches each and everyone’s wellbeing.
Atmospheres may be designed, and as such they have caught the interest of
several design businesses today.
Through nine consecutive months of workplace ethnography among urban
designers, this paper makes the case for a deeper understanding of how
atmospheres are not simply end products of design businesses but that they
play a vital role to the genesis of design solution – they fuel the processes of
design production.
The paper emphasizes the empirical connection between resonance,
atmosphere and uncertainty, suggesting how designers resonate with their CGI’s
in various empathic ways atmospherically. The findings hence make it tempting
for sociologists and related disciplines to lump together Gernot Böhme’s and
Hartmut Rosa’s concept of resonance respectively which, may leave scholars
into the quandary of positioning themselves between phenomenology and
critical theory. The paper suggests maintaining a phenomenological gaze
in order to propose an emotional engagement within an industry otherwise
characterised by rational and evidence-based approaches.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
Publikationsdato2023
StatusUdgivet - 2023
Udgivet eksterntJa
BegivenhedXX ISA World Congress of Sociology: Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics and Economies - Melbourne, Australien
Varighed: 25 jun. 20231 jul. 2023
https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023

Konference

KonferenceXX ISA World Congress of Sociology
Land/OmrådeAustralien
ByMelbourne
Periode25/06/202301/07/2023
AndetThe global rise of authoritarianism, as well as populism, xenophobia, and racism, makes our task as sociologists more crucial than ever. This dilemma is assisted by the gradual symbolic thickening of public culture through combinations of extreme nationalist and religious fervor.<br/><br/>What is the best way to analyze global resurgent authoritarianism? In addition to dealing with the scars of the colonial era, a postcolonial approach should be supplemented with another approach; we need to find ways to diagnose and resist this resurgence. This approach should take into account how authoritarianism affects not only our societies, but also our knowledge production. The self-centered and unspoken have become more important than the told and argued. We are concerned not only with the hard authoritarianism that heralds the brutalization of society and politics, but also the soft authoritarianism that often thrives in the shadow of neoliberalism, as the state moves deftly in the open or in secret to devise modes of governance that shore up its power against popular discontent.<br/><br/>A special interest of our Congress is how to disaggregate the Western, but also sociological, assumption of secularism as inherent in modern society and at the same time analytically dissociate the state from religion. While this separation is still a crucial pathway toward democracy and citizenship, the process needs to be problematized. We particularly look forward to discussing the promising avenues of inquiry within sociology and related disciplines about what have been termed ‘post-secular societies’ and ‘multiple secularities’.<br/><br/>Thus the XX ISA World Congress of Sociology will focus on how sociologists worldwide can (and do) contribute to the understanding of the resurgent authoritarianism and analyze the new entanglements of religions, politics, and economies. It will also focus on how sociologists engage (physically and critically) in the formidable social movements we are witnessing today in different parts of the world and in a renascent civil society.<br/><br/>The XX ISA World Congress of Sociology in Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023 will be in a hybrid format. While we strongly advise and encourage everyone to come to Melbourne and enjoy in-person participation in the Congress, on-line presentations will also be possible. Oral sessions will be a mix of in-person and virtual presenters, based on the presenters preference. For further details see: https://www.isa-sociology.org/en/conferences/world-congress/melbourne-2023/deadlines-2023
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  • Urban design
  • Atmosphere
  • Emotions

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