Imaging the City (Book)

Art, Creative Practices and Media Speculations

Edited by Steve Hawley, Edward Clift and Kevin O'Brien Series edited by Graham Cairns

Imaging the City brings together the work of designers, artists, dancers and media specialists who investigate how we perceive the city, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we might better design it. The editors open up the field of urban analysis and thought to the perspectives of creative professionals from non-urban disciplines.

Category: Architecture, Communication and Media, Cultural Studies, Design, Internet/Digital Media, Media Theory, Urban Studies, Visual Arts
Series: Mediated Cities

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Imaging 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.

Steve Hawley is professor and associate dean for research at the Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. 

Edward M. Clift is president of Brooks Institute in Ventura, California. He is one of the editors of Filming the City and Imaging the City.

Kevin O’Brien has 20 years architectural experience in public and private works in Australia. In October 2006 he established Kevin O’Brien Architects in Brisbane, QLD. He is also one of the editors of Imaging the City.

Foreword
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
Bics
ARCHITECTURE, Cultural studies, Globalization
Bisacs
ARCHITECTURE / General, DESIGN / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
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