The Emerging City

TY - CONF

T1 - The Emerging City

T2 - Acts, Design and Assemblages

AU - Samson, Kristine

PY - 2012/6/25

Y1 - 2012/6/25

N2 - The paper explores how urban bodies such as architecture, urban design, art works and social action can be drawn together in as urban assemblages producing “a movement of generalised deterritorialization”(Deleuze & Guattari 2004:78) in relation to the city. The first example, “The Elbæk bench” – urban furniture that was originally part of an election campaign for the cultural minister of Denmark, will illustrate how both political and artistic signatures become deterritorialized through urban space, time and every day social use. The second example is taken from corporate city development at the Carlsberg city, Copenhagen. Temporary installations were created to stimulate the milieu and establish recreational space that motivated bodily engagement and play. In two first cases I will investigate in which way the installations / urban furniture, despite their original purpose, destabilize the urban milieu and how other meanings emerge. In the last example, Relocation of beer drinkers on Enghave Square, Copenhagen, I will highlight how a heterogeneous assemblages of architecture, urban design, artistic intervention and every day social life has constructed continuums of intensities over a period of time thus establishing an emergent urban space divergent from both the intentions of the planner, architect, artist and user. Through the examples, I suggest that each urban body or design deterritorialize connecting with the city. Broadening up the perspective, I ask whether philosophical aesthetics associated with architecture and design can be redefined in terms of an emergent urbanity. Here socio-material assemblages play an important role as milieus are created as temporary intensities as they constantly territorialize and deterritorialize urban space. According to this, I define the city close to recent writings in cultural geography and urban studies. Here the city is regarded as ”a kind of force-field of passions that associate and pulse bodies in particular ways.” (Amin & Thrift 2002:84)Defining the traits of an emergent city offers the opportunity to open up for a discussion whether Deleuzian aesthetics relating to the work of art could be reassembled and regarded as processes in taking place in reality - in the emergent city.LiteratureAmin & Thrift Cities. Reimagining the Urban. Cambridge, Oxford, Polity Press Blackwell Publishers.Deleuze and Guattari (2004) A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizofrenia. Transl. Massumi Continuum, New York, LondonWhitehead, A.N. (1978) Process and Reality, corrected edition, Eds. Griffin, David Ray & Sherburne, Donald. W. The Free Press, New York

AB - The paper explores how urban bodies such as architecture, urban design, art works and social action can be drawn together in as urban assemblages producing “a movement of generalised deterritorialization”(Deleuze & Guattari 2004:78) in relation to the city. The first example, “The Elbæk bench” – urban furniture that was originally part of an election campaign for the cultural minister of Denmark, will illustrate how both political and artistic signatures become deterritorialized through urban space, time and every day social use. The second example is taken from corporate city development at the Carlsberg city, Copenhagen. Temporary installations were created to stimulate the milieu and establish recreational space that motivated bodily engagement and play. In two first cases I will investigate in which way the installations / urban furniture, despite their original purpose, destabilize the urban milieu and how other meanings emerge. In the last example, Relocation of beer drinkers on Enghave Square, Copenhagen, I will highlight how a heterogeneous assemblages of architecture, urban design, artistic intervention and every day social life has constructed continuums of intensities over a period of time thus establishing an emergent urban space divergent from both the intentions of the planner, architect, artist and user. Through the examples, I suggest that each urban body or design deterritorialize connecting with the city. Broadening up the perspective, I ask whether philosophical aesthetics associated with architecture and design can be redefined in terms of an emergent urbanity. Here socio-material assemblages play an important role as milieus are created as temporary intensities as they constantly territorialize and deterritorialize urban space. According to this, I define the city close to recent writings in cultural geography and urban studies. Here the city is regarded as ”a kind of force-field of passions that associate and pulse bodies in particular ways.” (Amin & Thrift 2002:84)Defining the traits of an emergent city offers the opportunity to open up for a discussion whether Deleuzian aesthetics relating to the work of art could be reassembled and regarded as processes in taking place in reality - in the emergent city.LiteratureAmin & Thrift Cities. Reimagining the Urban. Cambridge, Oxford, Polity Press Blackwell Publishers.Deleuze and Guattari (2004) A Thousand Plateaus, Capitalism and Schizofrenia. Transl. Massumi Continuum, New York, LondonWhitehead, A.N. (1978) Process and Reality, corrected edition, Eds. Griffin, David Ray & Sherburne, Donald. W. The Free Press, New York

KW - emergence

KW - urban studies

KW - assemblage

KW - urban space

KW - philosophy

KW - Deleuze

KW - Ontology of space

KW - urban design

KW - urban art

M3 - Paper

ER -