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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
What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and
transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically
sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the
challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising
gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased
prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of
car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place
in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing
countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in
technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future
living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of
face-to-face connections. What will be the 'glue' that holds
communities together in the future? To build better communities and
to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places.
Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for
place making by reordering urban planning principles from
prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the
people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from
developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can
be realized or fallen short of in practical terms. Importantly,
citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with
each other and with government agencies. To measure the
connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to
meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual
quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent
should the project process be participatory? How is an
outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate
with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are
organizational and contextual influences handled in a project? What
leadership demands do such projects place on researchers? What is
capacity building? What are creative leaders and creative
communities? How does the researcher journey from their studio to
the situation? M² Models and Methodologies for Community
Engagement discusses key theoretical constructs — community
engagement, capacity building, and community empowerment — in
order to demonstrate how theory and practice are relevant to the
development of forms of community involvement. The book maps the
attributes of community based projects by moving beyond simply
bringing people together from a variety of disciplines, and taking
an approach which is transdisciplinary and applicable across
cultures and genres. Here, all people — including the community
— are ongoing contributors, and can freely move between their own
and others’ discipline-specific arenas. M² differs from and
extends on other works in this field of practice and research, in
that its transdisciplinary, collaborative approach positions the
community as a particular kind of discipline to create real change
in diverse locations and fields of experience. The book is in
itself a model of community engagement, as the researchers have
formed a community of research and practice for change, and have
developed a transformative model for community engagement that is
greater than the sum of its parts – hence M². M² offers a
valuable resource for students, researchers, academics,
practitioners, policy developers and volunteers from the fields of
architecture, interior architecture, health, planning,
anthropology, education, home economics, communication, political
studies and development studies.
How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent
should the project process be participatory? How is an
outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate
with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are
organizational and contextual influences handled in a project? What
leadership demands do such projects place on researchers? What is
capacity building? What are creative leaders and creative
communities? How does the researcher journey from their studio to
the situation? M(2) Models and Methodologies for Community
Engagement discusses key theoretical constructs - community
engagement, capacity building, and community empowerment - in order
to demonstrate how theory and practice are relevant to the
development of forms of community involvement. The book maps the
attributes of community based projects by moving beyond simply
bringing people together from a variety of disciplines, and taking
an approach which is transdisciplinary and applicable across
cultures and genres. Here, all people - including the community -
are ongoing contributors, and can freely move between their own and
others' discipline-specific arenas. M(2) differs from and extends
on other works in this field of practice and research, in that its
transdisciplinary, collaborative approach positions the community
as a particular kind of discipline to create real change in diverse
locations and fields of experience. The book is in itself a model
of community engagement, as the researchers have formed a community
of research and practice for change, and have developed a
transformative model for community engagement that is greater than
the sum of its parts - hence M(2). M(2) offers a valuable resource
for students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy
developers and volunteers from the fields of architecture, interior
architecture, health, planning, anthropology, education, home
economics, communication, political studies and development
studies.
What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and
transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically
sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the
challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising
gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased
prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion? The era of
car-based planning has led to the disconnection of people and place
in developed countries, and is rapidly doing so in the developing
countries of the Global South. The unfolding mega-trend in
technological innovation, while adding new patterns of future
living and mobility in the cities, will question the relevance of
face-to-face connections. What will be the 'glue' that holds
communities together in the future? To build better communities and
to build better cities, we need to reconnect people and places.
Connecting Places, Connecting People offers a new paradigm for
place making by reordering urban planning principles from
prioritizing movement of vehicles to focusing on places and the
people who live in them. Numerous case studies, including many from
developing countries in the Global South, illustrate how this can
be realized or fallen short of in practical terms. Importantly,
citizens need to be engaged in policy development, to connect with
each other and with government agencies. To measure the
connectivity attributes of places and the success of strategies to
meet the needs, an Audit Tool is offered for a continual
quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
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