Space-Body-Ritual - Performativity in the City (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	May 2010
First published:	May 2010
Authors:	Reena Tiwari
Dimensions:	243 x 162 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-0-7391-2857-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities
LSN:	0-7391-2857-4
Barcode:	9780739128572

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