Author(s): Antje Steinmuller & Christopher Falliers
Working with city dwellers to reform and re-form public space, architects increasingly use alternative disciplinary methods and production. Practices like Atelier Bow-Wow, raumlabor, and Candy Chang preference understandings of peoples’ behaviors in public, citizen-deployed social/spatial configurations, and community engagement in constructing communal space. As Bow-Wow describes, expertise focuses on “the emergence of an architectural intelligence when architecture integrates these diff ering behaviors.”1 Architectural production turns to spatial frameworks prompting citizen participation. Beyond the community meeting, sites of community dialogue are themselves spatial designs/ events in public space, positioning architects/designers and constituent communities as co-producers of public space.
Volume Editors
Jasmine Benyamin, Kyle Reynolds, Mo Zell, Nikole Bouchard & Whitney Moon
ISBN
978-1-944214-28-9