Participatory Culture and the Social Value of an Architectural Icon: Sydney Opera House

ISBN-13: 9781472469892 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 222 str.

Cristina Garduno Freeman

Opis

This book develops new and innovative methods for understanding the cultural significance of places such as the World Heritage listed Sydney Opera House. By connecting participatory media, visual culture and social value, architectural theorist and academic Cristina Garduno Freeman contributes to a fast growing body of scholarship on the popular reception of architecture. In this, her first book, she opens up fresh perspectives on the places themselves, as well as the ways in which people relate to them through participating with them on social media. Such websites become places for people to appropriate buildings for their own ends, and via analysis of real world examples from souvenirs to opera house-shaped cakes, the book untangles the tangible and intangible ways in which the significance of heritage is created, disseminated and maintained. The relationship that people have with places is as complex as it is dynamic, and there is a growing need to understand the social value of significant place.

Spis treści

Introduction, 1. World Heritage Inscription and Social Value, 2. Social Value and Iconicity, 3. Participatory Culture and Socio-Visual Value, 4. Mediating Identity: Telling and Critiquing, 5. Mediating Experience: Making and Trading, 6. Mediating Time: Visiting and Capturing, 7. Entangled Significance: Personal Tributes, 8. Recognising Networked Significance in Heritage