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This book is motivated by two questions: Why do dismissed affective
evidence persist as troubling experience or imaginaries? What would
it mean for architecture to assemble such discrepant evidence into
its discourse? Arguing that the persistent refrains of lived affect
dwell in architecture, this book traces such refrains to a concept
of architecture wedged in the middle ground-jammed amidst life,
things and events. Rather than being apart from its surrounds,
architecture-in-the-midst challenges an autonomous epistemology.
Beyond accounting for the vivid but excluded, this book develops a
frame and a disposition for thinking critically about,
speculatively through, and being grounded by, encounter. Examining
affect through a constellation of spaces in contemporary Singapore,
it details architecture's uneasy but inextricable relationship with
key subjects relegated to the incommensurate, the peripheral, the
scenic and the decorative. The outcome is a politicised
architectural discourse simultaneously grounded and speculative:
bridging depth and intuition, thinking and feeling.
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in
producing international film history while at the same time
influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political
transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive
pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a
discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia. Concentrating on the
performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the
contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities
and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities,
landscapes, buildings and interiors actively shape cinematic
performances of such identities and their significances. The essays
are structured around the spatial themes of ephemeral, imagined and
contested spaces. They deal with struggles for identity, belonging,
autonomy and mobility within different national and transnational
contexts across East, Southeast and parts of South Asia in
particular, which are complicated by micropolitics and subcultures,
and by the interventions and interests of global lobbies.
Asian cinemas are connected to global networks and participate in
producing international film history while at the same time
influenced and engaged by spatial, cultural, social and political
transformations. This interdisciplinary study forwards a productive
pairing of Asian cinemas and space, where space is used as a
discursive tool to understand cinemas of Asia. Concentrating on the
performative potential of cinematic space in Asian films, the
contributors discuss how space (re)constructs forms of identities
and meanings across a range of cinematic practices. Cities,
landscapes, buildings and interiors actively shape cinematic
performances of such identities and their significances. The essays
are structured around the spatial themes of ephemeral, imagined and
contested spaces. They deal with struggles for identity, belonging,
autonomy and mobility within different national and transnational
contexts across East, Southeast and parts of South Asia in
particular, which are complicated by micropolitics and subcultures,
and by the interventions and interests of global lobbies.
As advancements in transportation and technology continue to close
the gap between architect, client, builder and site, critique and
place, this book considers how architects, designers, theorists,
and critics design, describe and critique future and past
constructions in absentia. This book engages with remote practice,
providing students, academics and professionals with the
understanding and tools they need to rethink the role of the
distant and disconnected in making, thinking and writing
architecture - a skill which is becoming increasingly important in
contemporary education and practice. Bringing together a collection
of 16 essays and creative works from a diverse and respected group
of scholars and designers, this book reflects upon the challenges
and opportunities which remote practices occasion in architecture.
Part One: Practice and Pedagogy investigates how a range of
technological and economic advancements continue to redefine
notions of connectedness in the practice of architecture at a
distance and explores what it means to teach and study architecture
at a distance from peer and place. Part Two: Critique and
Performativity consists of a wide range of questions that unpack
notions about situatedness, subjectivity, the body in space, and
what occurs when disparate things are suddenly made proximate. The
essays and creative works enable thematic as well as historically
and culturally contextual understanding of the topic, highlighting
important connections and changes across time.
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