Sitting outside: Conviviality, self-care and the design of benches in urban public space
Sitting outside: Conviviality, self-care and the design of benches in urban public space
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坐在户外：城市公共空间中的欢乐、自我保健和长凳设计
DOI：
10.1111/tran.12212
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Rishbeth C
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作者：
Rishbeth C
城市长椅被浪漫化为亲密和良性社会偶然性的场所，并在不受欢迎的闲逛方面存在问题。在本文中，我们探讨了坐在长椅上的具体做法，在城市背景下，其特点是企业主导的再生，并受到紧缩城市主义，帝国历史和持续的种族主义的影响。我们的地图学方法使我们能够注意到板凳用户的差异化和变化的主观性和时间性，以及新兴的空间反历史。该研究基于对伦敦东伦敦南部伍尔维奇中心广场的案例研究。这涉及到方法的折衷组合，包括电影制作，民族志和采访，以及一个由活动家，学者和艺术家组成的跨部门团队。本文首先从边缘化生活体验的角度对公共空间进行概念化，认为建筑设计是理解欢乐和关怀的微观地理所固有的。案例研究材料首先用于提供一个坐在广场上观看他人的视觉草图，然后解决欢乐和可见性和相对接近性在构建一个基本上不恐慌的多元文化中的价值。第三，我们讨论的是能动的，但有批判意识的自我照顾行为。最后，我们的重点转移到长椅的设计和身体的“触摸体验”以各种方式坐着，受到结构性不平等的影响，但因个人或集体优先事项的特殊性而有所区别。总之，我们认为，出席坐在长椅上的精度可以照亮城市变化的多个时间性的个人主体性和霸权结构。此外，出现的反历史可以为包容性城市设计的政策和实践提供信息。
The urban bench has been romanticised as a location of intimacy and benign social serendipity, and problematised with regard to perceptions of unwelcome loitering. In this paper we explore embodied practices of sitting on benches within an urban context characterised by corporate‐led regeneration and impacted by austerity urbanism, imperial history and ongoing racisms. Our schizocartographic methodology enables us to attend to the differentiated and shifting subjectivities and temporalities of bench users, and to emerging counter histories of space. The research is based on the case study of a central square in Woolwich, south‐east London. This involved an eclectic combination of methods, including film‐making, ethnography and interviews, and a cross‐sectoral team of activists, academics and an artist. The paper starts by conceptualising public space with respect to lived experiences of marginalisation, arguing that architectural design is intrinsic to understanding micro‐geographies of conviviality and care. The case study material is used first to provide a visual sketch of sitting and watching others in the square and then to address conviviality and the value of visibility and relative proximity in framing a mostly un‐panicked multiculture. Third, we discuss agentic, yet critically aware, acts of self‐care. Finally, our focus shifts to the design of the benches and the “touching experiences” of bodies sat in various ways, impacted by structural inequalities, yet differentiated by the particularities of individual or collective priorities. In conclusion we argue that attending to the precision of sitting on a bench can illuminate multiple temporalities of urban change in relation to both individual subjectivities and hegemonic structures. Further, the counter histories that emerge can inform policy and practice for inclusive urban design.