TY - JOUR
T1 - An Ethology of Urban Fabric(s)
AU - Fritsch, Jonas
AU - Thomsen, Bodil Marie Stavning
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - With this piece, we wish to open up a patch- work of relational thinking of the ethology of urban fabric(s) from a post-digital perspective. The semantic of the urban fabric normally denotes the “physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes but excluding (the) environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural [...]” (Wikipedia), from an ideal top-down perspective (see e.g. Bricoleur Urbanism). Here, however, we would like to explore a non-metaphorical understanding of urban fabric(s), shifting the attention from a bird’s eye perspective to the actual, textural manifestations of a variety of urban fabric(s) to be studied in their real, processual, ecological and ethological complexity within urban life. We effectuate this move by bringing into resonance a range of intersecting fields that all deal with urban fabric(s) in complementary ways (interaction design and urban design activism, fashion, cultural theory, philosophy, urban computing).
AB - With this piece, we wish to open up a patch- work of relational thinking of the ethology of urban fabric(s) from a post-digital perspective. The semantic of the urban fabric normally denotes the “physical aspect of urbanism, emphasizing building types, thoroughfares, open space, frontages, and streetscapes but excluding (the) environmental, functional, economic and sociocultural [...]” (Wikipedia), from an ideal top-down perspective (see e.g. Bricoleur Urbanism). Here, however, we would like to explore a non-metaphorical understanding of urban fabric(s), shifting the attention from a bird’s eye perspective to the actual, textural manifestations of a variety of urban fabric(s) to be studied in their real, processual, ecological and ethological complexity within urban life. We effectuate this move by bringing into resonance a range of intersecting fields that all deal with urban fabric(s) in complementary ways (interaction design and urban design activism, fashion, cultural theory, philosophy, urban computing).
KW - Urban Fabric
KW - Post-Digital Perspective
KW - Relational Thinking
KW - Ecological Complexity
KW - Urban Computing
KW - Urban Fabric
KW - Post-Digital Perspective
KW - Relational Thinking
KW - Ecological Complexity
KW - Urban Computing
M3 - Journal article
SN - 2245-7755
VL - 3
JO - A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
JF - A Peer-Reviewed Journal About
IS - 1
T2 - Transmediale 2014: Afterglow
Y2 - 29 January 2014 through 2 February 2014
ER -