Urban Sensographies

ISBN-13: 9780367406714 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 190 str.

Nicolas Whybrow

Opis

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly-nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable ‘felt data’ about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings.

Spis treści

Urban sensographies: an introduction  1. Ring cycle: a Coventry convolute  2. The ignorant camera  3. Moving and mapping: exploring embodied approaches to urban design and planning  4. urbanflows (immersed in worlds): choreographing body-environment metabolisms  Conclusion: paradigms of practice  Postscript: to sense the city

O autorze

Nicolas Whybrow is Professor of Urban Performance Studies in the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent book is Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe: the Work of Art in the Complex City (2020).