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Abstract
The spaces of the city that we pass through on a daily basis, is worn half-invisible by use. Often, we are more concerned with the extraordinary than its opposite – what Georges Perec coined the infraordinary (Perec 1997). This project seeks to uncover the unheeded spaces of dry cleaners as a place of social coexistence that has ‘a function that is separate from their practical use’ (Jorn 1954).
A London dry cleaner serves as testing ground, employing critical spatial practices and creative writing as research tools. The dry cleaner does not simply clean clothes, but is a social vertex and physical interface through which (non-)events unfold, trajectories thickens and people of the neighbourhood coexists as familiar strangers (Milgram 2010; Paulos and Goodman 2004) through events in real-time and deposits over time. It is a semi-public space and an implosion of the external neighbourhood, partly through allowing for occupation, inhabitation and co-authoring. Hence, these latent qualities and spatial materiality of the infraordinary form vital components of the social dimension of the city and points towards a recalibration of current urban practices.
A London dry cleaner serves as testing ground, employing critical spatial practices and creative writing as research tools. The dry cleaner does not simply clean clothes, but is a social vertex and physical interface through which (non-)events unfold, trajectories thickens and people of the neighbourhood coexists as familiar strangers (Milgram 2010; Paulos and Goodman 2004) through events in real-time and deposits over time. It is a semi-public space and an implosion of the external neighbourhood, partly through allowing for occupation, inhabitation and co-authoring. Hence, these latent qualities and spatial materiality of the infraordinary form vital components of the social dimension of the city and points towards a recalibration of current urban practices.
Originalsprog | Dansk |
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Publikationsdato | 15 okt. 2015 |
Antal sider | 9 |
Status | Udgivet - 15 okt. 2015 |
Begivenhed | Spaces & Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies - Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community, Chicago, USA Varighed: 15 okt. 2015 → 16 dec. 2015 Konferencens nummer: 6 |
Konference
Konference | Spaces & Flows |
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Nummer | 6 |
Lokation | Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community |
Land/Område | USA |
By | Chicago |
Periode | 15/10/2015 → 16/12/2015 |
Kunstnerisk udviklingsvirksomhed (KUV)
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Spaces & Flows
Espen Lunde Nielsen (Taler)
15 okt. 2015 → 16 okt. 2015Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangement af en begivenhed › Organisation af og deltagelse i konference
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Visiting Research Student, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Espen Lunde Nielsen (Deltager)
13 jan. 2014 → 1 maj 2014Aktivitet: Andre aktivitetstyper › Gæsteophold ved andre institutioner
Projekter
- 1 Afsluttet
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Architectural Probes of the Infraordinary: Coexistence through Everyday Spaces
16/09/2013 → 30/11/2016
Projekter: Projekt › Ph.d. projekt