Aesthetics of Participation - Atmosphere, Design, and Experience At the Oslo Opera House

This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera house, Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building, these participations reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Oslo Opera House
A social monument
Tourists and locals
An atmospheric lens
The Nordic invitation to participate
Immaterial architecture
Chapter 2. Adopting an atmospheric lens
Atmospheric perspectives: Böhme, Rancière, and Sloterdijk
Thinking about atmospheres
Building experience: architecture and atmosphere
Coercive atmosphere
Research atmosphere: methods and tools
Withdrawing from atmosphere: taking photography seriously
Pinholes and fuzzy
Chapter 3. Transformative participation
The road to Bjørvika
The Fjord City
Bjørvika and beyond
Snøhetta
A Nolli map
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The art
A stone saga
Rethinking participation: Arnstein's ladder
Chapter 4. Material participation
From the city to the roof
Marble: surfaces of the white carpet
Whiteness
Marble's social and synaesthetic character
Whiteness and a cleansing of the eye
Whiteness and blur
Designing ambiguity: the palace, whiteness, and a Norwegian sensibility to nature
Chapter 5. Movement participation
Architecture of the oblique
Dwelling, tripping, inhabiting
Life in the Norwegian open air
Resonance, dissonance, and a good-natured elitism
Chapter 6. Light participation
Nordic light, Nordic architecture: from the roof to the foyer
Daylight in the OOH
Artificial light
Transitions: liquid light
From bubbles to foam
Chapter 7. Art participation
First encounter with the The other wall
Democratic surfaces
Democratic surrounds: The wall as weather machine
Creative kitchens: process as art
The wall through social media
Selfies and mirror selfies
The wall, dissensus, and a partitioning of the sensible
Chapter 8 Conclusion: Exiting the social monument
Bibliography

About the author

Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank holds a PhD from the Department of People and Technology at Roskilde University. His research explores urban experience in relation to architecture, art, and design through experimental ethnographic methods.

Summary

This book explores the way people participate with the Oslo Opera house, Norway. As an iconic and culture-led building, these participations reveal the tensions between staged space and individual experience.

Product details

• Authors: Jeremy Hektor Payne-Frank
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032668772
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266877-2
• No. of pages: 172
• Series: Ambiances, Atmospheres and Sensory Experiences of Spaces
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Oslo, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Cultural Studies, Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc, Norway, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy: aesthetics, Human Geography, Conservation of buildings & building materials, Conservation of buildings and building materials, Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings