Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy

ISBN-13: 9780415398015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Brian Lonsway

Opis

Making Leisure Work explores architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design and provides a new architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation.

Using cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, leisure strategy planning and other techniques this text provides a unique presentation of the detailed mechanisms of spatial control inherent in their architectural reification.

By creatively - and sometimes playfully – integrating ethnographic, historical and semiotic methods, this book unravels the development of what is perhaps one of the most complex and subtly advancing contemporary tools of spatial control.

Making Leisure Work offers a new theoretical framework for reading contemporary architecture and encourages alternative inquiries into the contemporary social politics of spatial production.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Stories about our Themed Environment  1. Work, Leisure, and the Architectural Everyday  2. The Narration of Everyday Experience  3. Space, Semiotics, and Scientism  Part 2: The Experience of Experience  4. Extreme Narrative  5. Différant Myths  6. Entertainment Capacity  7. The Experience of a Lifestyle  Part 3: Narrative Agitations  8. Telling Practices  9. Juridical Opinion  10. Happy Potties and other Alternative Narratives

O autorze

Brian Lonsway is Associate Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, USA. He is an architectural theorist and technology researcher whose work is invested in the evolving relationships between design technologies and spatial thought.