Wednesday 3 March 2010

'On Performative Regionalism' | Barbara Allen

This short essay discusses some of the issues Tom and I have been looking at with regards to the interaction of the people/urban environment.  Looking at the ideas of regional identity and place (region) being a culturally constructed concept.  Therefore it is the holding of a shared identity or set of cultural practices, which can be informed and transformed over the history of an area.

'performed identities and these are often acted out on a certain architectural stage engendering an attachment to a particular place of (micro)region'.

Is the trajectory of the design work within the studio currently tracking the cumulative conditions which have resulted in a specific microregion within the city?

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