Description
Book SynopsisDesigning Spatial Culture investigates a powerful experiential dialogue formed between the habitation of space and a diversified cultural realm. This creative proposition binds and positions human activity and experience framing its histories, currency and future. Whilst the book distinguishes between the conditions of the existing urban/ architecture/ interior canon, it embraces a new agency of space, showcasing the encounters, assemblies and designs that shape human behaviours and the cultural forms of the built environment.
Using authoritative case studies, the book examines many locations and spaces, ranging from new urban landscapes, historical domestic spaces and contemporary architecture. It embraces the most lavish and flamboyant to the most simplistic and minimal, establishing a connected cultural narrative. The book shifts the focus in the spatial realm from an object-based experience (where space is filled with things) to a more complete immersive experienc
Table of Contents
1. Spatial Cultures – A Critical Introduction 2. Cultures, Conundrums and Encounters 3. A Spatial Probe – Investigation into Space 4. Ethnography and the human perspective (Spatial Culture Ecosystem) 5. Determining Spatial Culture: Atmosphere, Character, Enclosure, Space (Figurative Realm) 6. Explaining spatial culture: Comfort, Object, Surface, Experience (Sensory Realm) 7. Understanding Spatial Culture: Colour, Light, Taste and Place (Textual Realm) 8. Cultural placement mapping - Physical/ Digital Cultures Summary: A cultural analysis
