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This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management. This book will be of interest to researchers, students and professionals of architecture, urban planning, anthropology and philosophy.
List of contents
Part 1: Timeless connections between society and builtscape 1. Public ethics and moral significance of landscape: Political correlations, bodily emancipation and neoteric bourgeois identity 2. Letters: 1519, 1796, 2020 - The architect's public discourse 3. The three-dimensional ethos
Part 2: Contemporary interweavings: Participatory social practices and inhabited space 4. Revisiting the practices and ethics of participatory design: Learning from contemporary Latin American examples 5. Co-design in real time: Research and design in Brussels and Valparaiso 6. Place-making from the Urban Palimpsest 7. Architectural toolbar and art of dwelling: Antagonistic antinomies of a spatial ethos 8. Spatial plots: Three epistemological models
Part 3: Contemporary interweavings: Socio-environmental inclusive approaches to inhabited space 9. Acting and spatial framing: Towards a political topology of the terrestrial 10. Space, biopolitics and democracy 11. Eco-phenomenology and environmental ethics: Observations on
topos with reference to
Stalker by Andrey Tarkovsky 12. Technospatial entanglements of infrastructural bio-/politics 13. Interwoven lines of cultural expressions 14. 'Posthuman' architecture: Contemporary approaches of the human, technology, and nature within the built environment
About the author
Kyriaki Tsoukala is Professor Emerita at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received the title of doctorate of Social Sciences, as well as the title of doctorate of Urban Geography from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), and also holds the title of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR) from the University of Paris X-Nanterre in the Organisation of Space. Tsoukala has published numerous articles in scientific and architectural journals and books in Greece, France and the United Kingdom. Key topics of focus include: the link between architecture and the human sciences and philosophy; places of the upbringing of children and youth; the affiliation between the child-urban spaces; and the theories of Socio-Psychology of Space. She has written the following books:
Trends in School Architecture-From the child centered functionality to the postmodern approach (1997, Thessaloniki/Paratiritis, in Greek),
L'image de la ville chez l'enfant (2001, Paris/Anthropos-Economica),
Les territoires urbains de l'enfant (2007, Paris/L'Harmattan),
Child urban territories, Architecture and mental representations (2005, Athens/Gutenerg, in Greek),
Urbanisation and Identity (2009, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek),
Fluid Space and Reflective Counterpoints on Education (2015, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek),
Fluid Space and Transformational Learning (2017, London/Routledge) and
Body and Architecture (2023, Thessaloniki/Epikentro, in Greek).
