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Space-Body-Ritual - Performativity in the City (Hardcover)
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Space-Body-Ritual - Performativity in the City (Hardcover)
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Set against the contemporary thinking of the city as a spectacle,
Space Body Ritual: Performativity in the City establishes everyday
life in the city as a ground for authentic experience. Reena Tiwari
emphasizes the city as a space of lived experience-an intricately
layered space giving people a poetic experience, responding to
their memories and desires. She also explores the conflict between
two ideas: the idea of thee 'city as text' to be read and
understood from a distance, and the 'city as body, ' where the
body, after writing the text through its performance, achieves the
capacity to read and understand it. Space Body Ritual demonstrates
that the abstract 'seeing' embedded in the 'city as a text' is
underwritten by the idea of power operating at deeper levels in the
city. This hidden power is the power of the user's body in space.
Furthermore, Tiwari proposes that an understanding of the 'city as
body' through lived experience-through rhythmanalysis, where
rhythms of everyday and extra everyday practices are
understood-leads to the design of an environment that is evocative
and is able to generate a bodily response from the user. To
understand the rhythms, it becomes essential to know the way users
inhabit, understand and map or present the city spaces by their
bodies. Space Body Ritual will compel its readership to think of
the parameters of spatial design as cultural generator
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