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Book SynopsisImaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who cross the borders of design and artistic practices to investigate how we perceive the city; how we imagine it; how we experience it; and how we might better design it. Breaking disciplinary boundaries, editors Steve Hawley, Edward Clift and Kevin O’Brien provocatively open up the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives of creative professionals from non-urban disciplines. With a cast of contributors from across the globe,
Imaging the City offers international insight for engaging with – and forecasting the future for – our cities.
Table of ContentsForeword
Graham Cairns Introduction
Steve Hawley Section One: Theories of Media, Memory and Imagination
Various Chapter One: Territories of image: Disposition and disorientation in Google Earth
Lawrence Bird Chapter Two: Manchester as a mythical city: Reflections in art and locative media
Steve Hawley Chapter Three: From under your skin
John Zissovici Chapter Four: CitySpaceMindSpace
Terry Flaxton Chapter Five: Mapping the city as remembered and the city as imaged
Jelena Stankovic Intersection One: A city of grids and algorithms and soundtracks in cars and planes and glass
Joshua Singer Section Two: Applications - Traditional Technologies of Perception an the Imagination
Various Chapter Six: Sep Yama/Finding Country to Burning City Studios
Kevin O'Brien Chapter Seven: Surface tension: Experimental dance films and the undoing of urban space
Sylvie Vitaglione Chapter Eight: Thresh, hold
Dirk de Bruyn Chapter Nine: Qualities of lustrous gatherings
Reit Eeckhout and Ephraim Joris Intersection Two: Sick city: An introduction
Heron-Mazy (Anon) Section Three: Interventions in Design and Experience - New Media and Technologies in the City
Various Chapter Ten: Belén's Social Repair Kit: Collective data visualization and participatory civic agency
Ivan Chaparro Chapter Eleven:Read or follow? Designing with mobile technologies and digital space
Natalie Rowland Chapter Twelve: Musing publics: Arts and idea in motion
Michael Jemtrud Epilogue
Edward M. Clift
