Abstract
Speculative Practices: Explorations, in understanding place making in Transients contexts
By Brigitta Stone-Johnson, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
“The use of site-specific creative practice to explore the relationship between the body and how we deform and impact on the world around us in transient contexts.” This paper explores the use of the site-specific within the arts and design, to understand the relationship between the users of space, and the traces which they make during interactions within temporary occupation of spaces. Considering the potential use of such markers to facilitate spatial agency. Examining the use of ‘Speculative Practices’ (Auger, 2013), within the arts and architecture as a vehicle through which we might explore complexity within such spaces, and learn about the city through the body as the site of the making of place. Drawings on theories concerning The Phenomenology of place (Merleau-Ponty, 2002) together with, Tim Ingold’s work concerning making as the embodiment of thought. (Ingold, 2013) Though the examination of artwork as a vehicle for spatial knowledge production.
Author keywords
site specificity, placemaking, the embodiment of form, embodied agency, material interagency, haptic placemaking