Activities per year
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.
Original language | Danish |
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Publication date | 15 Oct 2015 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 15 Oct 2015 |
Event | Spaces & Flows: Sixth International Conference on Urban and ExtraUrban Studies - Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community, Chicago, United States Duration: 15 Oct 2015 → 16 Dec 2015 Conference number: 6 |
Conference
Conference | Spaces & Flows |
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Number | 6 |
Location | Spaces & Flows Knowledge Community |
Country/Territory | United States |
City | Chicago |
Period | 15/10/2015 → 16/12/2015 |
Artistic research
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Spaces & Flows
Espen Lunde Nielsen (Speaker)
15 Oct 2015 → 16 Oct 2015Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organisation and participation in conference
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Visiting Research Student, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
Espen Lunde Nielsen (Participant)
13 Jan 2014 → 1 May 2014Activity: Other activity types › Period visiting other institutions
Projects
- 1 Finished
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Architectural Probes of the Infraordinary: Coexistence through Everyday Spaces
16/09/2013 → 30/11/2016
Project: PhD project