Title & Author:

A section of now : social norms and rituals as sites for architectural intervention / edited by Giovanna Borasi

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Montréal, Québec Canada : Canadian Centre for Architecture ; Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2021]
©2021

Description:

359 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Authors, Ann Neumann, Helen Hester, Nina Power, Jen Schradie, Joanne McNeil.
Issued also in French under title : Une portion du présent : les normes et rituels sociaux comme sites d'intervention architecturale.
Co-published by Spector Books OHG.
Includes bibliographical references.
Labour: Do you need a side hustle to make a living wage? Are you prepared to share your workplace with a robot, or to be replaced by one? -- Obsessions: How many times have you looked at your phone today? Have you considered rebranding yourself? -- Agency: Are you a conscious consumer? Do you use your city as a space for collective action? -- Ownership: Do you own, rent, or subscribe to your housing? How many people are you willing to share a kitchen with? -- Life Cycles: What will you do if you live to 100? Do you know how you were conceived? -- Family: Does your family fit into the standard single-family home? When was the last time you received a hug?
Attention to new sites for architecture / Giovanna Borasi -- Labour: Do you need a side hustle to make a living wage? Are you prepared to share your workplace with a robot, or to be replaced by one? : 24-Hour Daycare / Alice Proujanski ; Torre Domestikah / Samantha Ingallina and Benson Chien ; Riders not heroes / 2050+ and -orama ; Brooklyn amenity utility / Jesse LeCavalier ; Material hegemony now: domestic realism and financial capitalism / Helen Hester ; A space for a non-human domestic labourer / Anna Puigjaner ; Home is where the droids are/ Certain Measures ; Raising robotic natives / Stephan Bogner, Philipp Schmitt, and Jonas Voigt ; A space for deep work / SO-IL -- Obsessions: How many times have you looked at your phone today? Have you considered rebranding yourself : The real teens of Silicon Valley / Michael Schmelling ; HGY / N H D M ; A space for a 30-year old retiree / Taumnovelle ; One or many selves? / Nina Power ; Hype House / Michele Groskopf ; Goodnight, login / Joanne McNeil ; Television portrait / Paul Graham ; A public space in which to access the digital commons / Sumayya Vally ; +Lightline / HIG Traffic Systems ; Offline lamp and substitute phone / Klemens Schillinger -- Agency: are you a conscious consumer? Do you use your city as a space for collective action? : A natural order / Lucas Fogila ; Brainsport Smart District / UNSense, 100 Homes ; A space with no trash collection / Agency-Agency ; Climate strike NYC / Bryan Thomas ; Gecekondu / Kotti & Co. and Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman ; A space for removed monuments / Mario Gooden ; Digital sapces: online safety and offline structures in France and the U.S. / Jen Schradie ; CHBL Jammer Coat / Coop Himmelb(l)au ; AI Spoofing t-shirt / Northeastern University, MIT, and IBM ; A space for the invisiblization of power / Andrés Jaque -- Ownership: do you own, rent, or subscribe to your housing? How many people are you willing to share a kitchen with? : The debt project / Brittany M. Powell ; La hauteur pour tous / Édouard François ; The Ingot / Jack Self ; Promised Land / Dogma and NEW Academy ; Stille Stasse / Assemble and Stille Stasse ; Anthropocene LLC / Sam Chermayeff Office ; Kufürstenstrasse / June14 Meyer-Grobrügge & Chermayeff ; House with a Missing Middle / Other Architects -- Life cycles: what will you do if you live to 100? Do you know how you were conceived? : Aunties / Nadia Sablin ; New ground co-housing / Pollard Thomas Edwards ; Where the old people dance: the crisis in American public housing / Ann Neumann ; Crematorium / Office KGDVS, Bureau Bas Smets, and Richard Venlet ; Constellation Park / DeathLAB ; End of Life Care Machine / Dan Chen ; Closer each day / Common Accounts ; A space for voluntary euthanasia / Karla Rothstein ; Grange Triple Double / Williamson Williamson ; House in Kawasaki / Go Hasegawa ; Homebirth in water / Elisabeth Ubbe ; A space for fertility / Hilary Sample ; Triangular Bed / June 14 Meyer-Grobrügge & Chermayeff ; Shared baby / Ai Hasegawa ; Way self-insemination kit / Kamila Rudnicka -- Family: does your family fit into the standard single-family home? When was the last time you received a hug? : Still lovers / Elena Dorfman ; Apartment house in Tokyo / Takahashi Ippei ; Skin Hunger / Jaime Diamond ; Compression carpet / Lucy McRae ; Duplex with "transporter" / Kent Kirkland and Monica McGrath ; Happily ever after / Yangying Ye ; Taumhaus Royal / Anais Langlais-Schmidt ; A space for a blended family / Sam Jacob ; Lovo Lebensort / Christoph Wagner ; Wunschmaschine Wohnanlage / Expanded Design ; Constellation House / Something Fantastic ; No stranger place / Aubrey Wade.

Summary:

'A Section of Now' aims to re-establish a dialogue between architecture and society that would allow architecture to begin to contend with and address our changed and changing social norms. The publication serves as a meditation on new behaviours, rituals, and values and their spatial implications, and seeks to catalyse urban and architectural interventions that accommodate, influence, and, in some cases, pre-empt our new lived realities. Authors address topics ranging from the safety of digital spaces to how normative life trajectories affect the elderly and the many selves each of us puts forward, while architects present frameworks for, among other things, spaces for blended families, thirty-year-old retirees, and contested monuments. Bringing together analytical essays about the contemporary moment and the direction in which society is moving, projective texts that outline new architectural types to address societal needs, alongside television series, photography, and architecture and design projects, 'A Section of Now' outlines a new relationship between the spaces in which we live and the ways we live within them. Architect, editor, and curator Giovanna Borasi is Director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.

ISBN:

9781927071779 (softcover)
1927071771 (softcover)
9783959055079 (Spector Books OHG)
3959055072 (Spector Books OHG)

Subject:

Architecture and society.
Social norms.
Architecture et société.
Normes sociales.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
Pictorial works
Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Borasi, Giovanna, 1971- editor.
Neumann, Ann (Author), author.
Hester, Helen, 1983- author.
Power, Nina, author.
Schradie, Jen, author.
McNeil, Joanne, author.
Centre canadien d'architecture, issuing body.

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