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The anthology gathers contributions from leading researchers from various Nordic universities, architectural schools and architectural firms as well as prominent international scholars all exploring, developing and innovating the cross-disciplinary field between anthropology and architecture.
List of contents
Introduction to architectural anthropology
Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielsen, and Aina Landsverk Hagen The method of architectural anthropology: six suggestions
Albena Yaneva Part I: Home, walls, and boundaries Edited by Claus Bech-Danielsen and Marie Stender 1. The viscous porosity of walls and people
Sandra Lori Petersen 2. An outdoor living room: balconies and blurring boundaries
Marie Stender and Marie Blomgren Jepsen 3. Mould, microbes, and microscales of architecture: an anthropological approach to indoor environments
Turid Borgestrand Øien and Mia Kruse Rasmussen 4. Homelessness and homeliness: collage technique as a research method
Laura Helene Højring and Claus Bech-Danielsen 5. Walls and islands: exploring perpetual configurations of carcerality through architectural anthropology
Runa Johannessen and Tomas Max Martin Part II: Urban space and public life Edited by Sten Gromark, Aina Landsverk Hagen, and Marie Stender 6. Interdisciplinarity on site: exploring the urban interventions 'Unidades de Vida Articulada' in Medellín
Lisbet Harboe and Hanne Cecilie Geirbo 7. Engaging with mixed-use design: the case of the urban library in Oslo
Cicilie Fagerlid, Bengt Andersen, and Astri Margareta Dalseide 8. Urban youth, narrative dialogues and emotional imprints: how co-creating the 'splotting' methodology became a transformative journey into interdisciplinary collaboration
Aina Landsverk Hagen and Jenny B. Osuldsen 9. What makes spatial difference? Conceptualising architectural anthropology through filmmaking
Lina Berglund-Snodgrass and Ebba Högström 10. 'After Belonging': a study of proposals for architectural interventions for arrival of refugees in Oslo, Norway
Eli Støa and Anne-Sigfrid Grønseth Part III: Processes of creativity, participation, and design Eli Støa and Aina Landsverk Hagen 11. Architectural anthropologists in the making? Paths to creative youth participation in local urban development
Ingrid M. Tolstad and Astri Margareta Dalseide 12. Questioning the shape of social concepts: transforming anthropological insights into architectural design drivers
Drew Nathan Thilmany 13. Rendering atmosphere: exploring the creative glue in an urban design studio
Anette Stenslund and Mikkel Bille 14. Constructing community? A collaborative housing development process, meeting credit and concrete
Silje Erøy Sollien and Søren Nielsen 15. Norwegian pilots: navigating the technological logic of sustainable architecture
Ruth Woods and Thomas Berker Afterword: engaging architectural anthropology
Sarah Pink Index
About the author
Marie Stender is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Claus Bech-Danielsen is an architect and professor at the Department of the Built Environment, Aalborg University, Denmark.
Aina Landsverk Hagen is an anthropologist and senior researcher at the Work Research Institute at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway.
Summary
The anthology gathers contributions from leading researchers from various Nordic universities, architectural schools and architectural firms as well as prominent international scholars all exploring, developing and innovating the cross-disciplinary field between anthropology and architecture.
