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Moving Spaces and Places is about movement as a transformative
experience, showing how movement changes affect and percept of
spaces and place and solidifies space into meaningful places. The
cross-disciplinary contributions in this collection - brought
together by aesthetics and artistic practices and embodied and
participatory research approaches - illustrate how the physical act
of moving and the psychological experience of movement are
inextricably interwoven. Traversing the knowledge domains and
practices of culture, art, pedagogy, geography, architecture, and
city planning, the chapters reveal the diversity of the study of
movement in relation to space and place; as a way of setting things
in motion, as a psychological act of agency, and as a way to
reflect, instantiate, and eventually reconcile-and even
heal-relationships between people, spaces, and places. This
multi-layered investigation of movement takes temporal, physical,
and psychological transformation as its conceptual core, and
appeals to a myriad of readers ranging from architectural
practitioners and urban planners to activists, artists and
geographers.
While 'space' and 'place' appear as key concepts in the study of
culture, their complexity and mutability require ever-new
frameworks when approaching them critically. Including chapters by
authors from different fields, career stages, and geopolitical
backgrounds, the contributors in this edited collection scrutinize
the changing dynamics of space and place in relation to current
political, social, and environmental urgencies across the globe.
With chapters investigating both real and imaginary spaces and
places, the diversified discussions included in this collection
provide a cohesive study for disclosing latent understandings of
multiple phenomena characterizing the world in which we live. From
the protests in Egyptian and Turkish squares, to the power-related
narratives embedded in institutional buildings, from the
development of the commercial arena in Victorian and Edwardian
London, to the effects of current environmental concerns on the
evaluation of urban and rural locations, the volume ultimately
serves as a progressive connection of fields, minds, and outlooks
through an innovative, pluralistic vision. This interdisciplinary
focus not only emphasizes the centrality of spaces and places when
disentangling the complexities comprising our past and present, but
also suggests a more pluralistic approach for exploring fundamental
concepts in future spaces and places studies.
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