Title & Author:

Agonistic assemblies : on the spatial politics of horizontality : a project by Cultures of Assembly at the University of Luxembourg / edited by Markus Miessen.

Publication:

London : Sternberg Press, [2024]
©2024

Description:

356 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
"Agonistic Assemblies asks: how can spaces—both physical and virtual—be envisaged to create publics? How is collectivity and society being generated spatially and in terms of policy? How do we “practice” society as a bodily, spatial form, and how does this practice contribute to spatial justice? Are there specific spatial settings that can intensify these practices? What kind of spatial design can we imagine as platforms for change? Central to this project is the reflecting on and rendering of the underlying driving forces of informal institution building at the interface of agonistic (urban) spatial politics—in a global political climate facing what Mark Fisher famously framed as “capitalist realism” in conjunction with the social-ecological transition while, arguably, also facing a crisis of imagination. This project articulates a curatorial impetus towards urban policy making in conjunction with spatial proximity as a tool to mediate between the individual, the collective, the neighborhood, the city, state politics, and society at large. If we understand assembly as a form of spatial gathering, and the bonfire as the prehistoric space of assembly, what constitutes its contemporary equivalent?"--Front cover flap.
Includes bibliographical references.
Envious Assemblies / Sarah M. Whiting -- Democracy as Agonistic Pluralism / Chantal Mouffe -- Proximities / Markus Miessen -- Diwaniya: A Space for Reinstitution / Zahra Ali Baba -- Diwaniya: An Architectural Space of Political Exchange / Joseph Grima, Markus Miessen -- Architectural Space as Agent: Notes Regarding the 2011 Winter School Middle East, Kuwait / Kenny Cupers, Markus Miessen, Patricia Reed -- The Politics of Spectacle and Display: Some Thoughts on Agonistic Assemblies 1922/2022 / Mirjam Zadoff -- A Tree, a Roof, a Tent: Spatial Models for a New Democratic Paradigm / Claudia Chwalisz, Amelie Klein, Vera Sacchetti -- Designing Politics: Architectures of Deliberation and Decision-Making / Florian Malzacher, Markus Miessen, David Mulder van der Vegt -- Revisiting Self-Governance: On Designing a Council of Five Hundred / Gustav Kjær Vad Nielsen -- New Sites for Assembly / Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Markus Miessen, Anne Davidian -- Making Room for Conflict: Agonistic Urbanism and the Struggle for a More Inclusive City / Diane E. Davis -- The Community Problem in Design / Jesko Fezer -- Architecture is Too Important to Leave to the Architects / Ole Bouman, Giancarlo De Carlo, Roemer van Toorn -- Initiative Citoyenne / Erhard Eppler, Markus Miessen -- How the Politics of Provocation is Shaping Democratic Futures / Rahel Süß -- When European Parliament Goes on Air: Television, Architecture, and the European Public / Dennis Pohl -- On Horizontal Alliances - Scales of Threshold Infrastructures / Pelin Tan -- Democratic Practices / Francelle Cane, Markus Miessen, César Reyes Nájera, Rahel Süß -- Three Points to Remember for the Green Parties / Nikolaj Schultz -- Author Biographies -- Acknowledgments.

Summary:

"This anthology presents work on cultures of assembly. It stresses the relevance of small-scale and decentralized spatial formats of local knowledge production to community building and embedded political decision-making in the context of the socio-ecological transition. It reinforces the role of both individual and collective action while proposing distributed assembly and proximity as core attributes in the production of the contemporary and future city. It calls for a revised form of spatial politics."--Front cover.

ISBN:

9781915609144
1915609143

Subject:

Space (Architecture)
City planning.
Public spaces.
Architecture and society.
Espace (Architecture)
Espaces publics.
Architecture et société.

Added entries:

Miessen, Markus, editor.

On the spatial politics of horizontality

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319817
Call No.: 319817
Copy: 1
Status: Available