Description
Book SynopsisPresenting case studies from around the world, this book offers the first extensive discussion of the act of protest as a designed event that uses public space to challenge the distance between institutional power.
Trade ReviewAn impressive and serious-minded effort to build an analytical framework that would allow us to evaluate protest actions as design interventions on their own terms…a book like this is, indeed, long overdue. * Journal of Planning Education and Research *
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The Design of Protest] opens up exciting lines of analysis by examining protests as spatial choreography, using concepts such as theater, ritual, and icons as new frames of understanding. It also broadens the terrain through careful consideration of a diverse set of protests. -- Planning Theory & Practice
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Organization of the Book
- Acknowledgments
- PART I. PLANNING PROTESTS
- Chapter 1. Challenging Distance
- Keeping Distance in Public Space
- Challenging Distance during Protests
- The Design of Protests
- Chapter 2. Choosing a Place
- Defining Distance through Forms and Symbols
- Public Space Prototypes and Protest Cultures
- Changing the Narration of Space
- Choosing a Place, Appropriating the Right Locus
- Chapter 3. Enhancing the Impact
- Protest as the Juxtaposition of Spheres
- Context and the Search for Alternative Forms of Protest
- The Manifold Spatialities of Protests
- The Underlying Principles of the Groups’ Protests
- Reimagining Sociospatial Distance
- Chapter 4. Bargaining Power
- Controlling the Events
- Negotiating Power
- Between Predictability and Uncertainty
- PART II. SPATIAL CHOREOGRAPHIES
- Chapter 5. Staging the Action
- Crafting a Spatial Choreography in the Quest for Change
- Spatial Prototypes of Actions: Spectacle, Procession, and Place-Making
- Does a Winning Spatial Choreography Exist?
- Chapter 6. Spectacles
- Theater | Tel Aviv, Rabin Square, November 4, 1995
- Ritual | Buenos Aires, Plaza de Mayo, August 31, 2006
- Bareness | Tel Aviv, King George, January 26, 2008
- Chapter 7. Processions
- Target | Istanbul, Taksim Square, May 1, 1977
- Conjoining | Leipzig, Augustusplatz, October 9, 1989
- Synchronicity | Worldwide, February 15, 2003
- Elasticity | Caracas, Autopista Francisco Fajardo, April 11, 2002
- Chapter 8. Place-Making
- Reiconization | Beijing, Tiananmen Square, June 4, 1989
- City Design | Washington, DC, National Mall, May 13–June 24, 1968
- Narrative | New York, Zuccotti Park, September 17–November 15, 2011
- PART III. CONTINUUM
- Chapter 9. Performing Protestability
- Challenging Distance in Future Protests
- Performing Protestability as an Ethical Task
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
