Abstract
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Urban Mobility : Architectures, Geographies and Social Space. |
| Editors | Anne Elisabeth Toft, Magnus Rönn |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| Publisher | Nordic Academic Press of Architectural Research |
| Publication date | 1 Jul 2017 |
| Pages | 13-44 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-91-983797-1-6 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jul 2017 |
| Event | Urban Mobility - Architectures, Geographies and Social Space: The 2015 Nordic Architectural Research Symposium - Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden Duration: 5 Nov 2015 → 6 Nov 2015 |
Symposium
| Symposium | Urban Mobility - Architectures, Geographies and Social Space |
|---|---|
| Location | Malmö University |
| Country | Sweden |
| City | Malmö |
| Period | 05/11/2015 → 06/11/2015 |
Keywords
- Mobile architecture
- flexibility
- nomadism
- archigram
- Yona Friedman
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Instant urbanism and the politics of mobile architecture. / Pinder, David.
Urban Mobility: Architectures, Geographies and Social Space.. ed. / Anne Elisabeth Toft; Magnus Rönn. Nordic Academic Press of Architectural Research, 2017. p. 13-44.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Instant urbanism and the politics of mobile architecture
AU - Pinder, David
PY - 2017/7/1
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N2 - Demands to mobilise architecture and urban space have become increasingly common in recent years, as part of discourses and practices of temporary use and instant urbanism. These approaches put an accent on mobility, flexibility, spontaneity and improvisation. Contemporary commentators and practitioners often acknowledge the influence in this regard of earlier avant-garde architectural experimentation from the 1960s, involving among others Archigram, Yona Friedman, Constant and the situationists. This paper returns to such earlier projects to explore further the implications of their emphasis on mobility and flexibility, and to consider the ways in which their visions of mobile architecture and cities were opposed to dominant spatial structures and imbued with emancipatory intent. However, through engaging with critical debates at the time, including those involving Henri Lefebvre and the group Utopie, it is particularly concerned with problematising the celebration of mobility, flux and flow that some of these visions entail, along with their abstract and universal invocations of the nomadic. The paper asserts the need to attend to the power relations through which mobilities are produced, and to a deeper sense of the contested politics of mobile architecture. Doing so is especially significant in the current era when mobility, flexibility, adaptability and creativity have become central to ideologies of neoliberal urbanism, and when calls for their extension can easily become complicit with processes of neoliberalisation. Rethinking the legacies of earlier avant-garde visions may, in this way, help to sharpen senses of both threats and possibilities within fields of temporary or instant urbanism.
AB - Demands to mobilise architecture and urban space have become increasingly common in recent years, as part of discourses and practices of temporary use and instant urbanism. These approaches put an accent on mobility, flexibility, spontaneity and improvisation. Contemporary commentators and practitioners often acknowledge the influence in this regard of earlier avant-garde architectural experimentation from the 1960s, involving among others Archigram, Yona Friedman, Constant and the situationists. This paper returns to such earlier projects to explore further the implications of their emphasis on mobility and flexibility, and to consider the ways in which their visions of mobile architecture and cities were opposed to dominant spatial structures and imbued with emancipatory intent. However, through engaging with critical debates at the time, including those involving Henri Lefebvre and the group Utopie, it is particularly concerned with problematising the celebration of mobility, flux and flow that some of these visions entail, along with their abstract and universal invocations of the nomadic. The paper asserts the need to attend to the power relations through which mobilities are produced, and to a deeper sense of the contested politics of mobile architecture. Doing so is especially significant in the current era when mobility, flexibility, adaptability and creativity have become central to ideologies of neoliberal urbanism, and when calls for their extension can easily become complicit with processes of neoliberalisation. Rethinking the legacies of earlier avant-garde visions may, in this way, help to sharpen senses of both threats and possibilities within fields of temporary or instant urbanism.
KW - Mobile architecture
KW - flexibility
KW - nomadism
KW - archigram
KW - Yona Friedman
M3 - Article in proceedings
SP - 13
EP - 44
BT - Urban Mobility
A2 - Toft, Anne Elisabeth
A2 - Rönn, Magnus
PB - Nordic Academic Press of Architectural Research
ER -