Boredom and space: blunting and jading as causes of change in architecture

Parreno, Christian

doi:10.1080/13602365.2015.1092461

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“…Likewise, in the literature on art and architecture, boredom is considered a ‘very creative state’ (Richardson, 2013) and one of ‘potential richness’ (O’Doherty, 1967). In other words, boredom can precede and/or trigger creativity (Parreno and Lønningdal, 2020), constituting a force that pushes towards experimentation (Parreno, 2015). Indeed, in some architectural theory, the spaces created by the built environment become vehicles for emotions such that ‘architectural boredom’ (e.g.…”

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In praise of boredom at work

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Ahuja

Parker³

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In the context of management and organisational literature, boredom has largely been seen in individual, psychological and negative terms, both for those experiencing it and for organisational outcomes. Through selective references to a wider sociological, historical and philosophical set of perspectives, we make a case here for refiguring boredom at work as a more relational and political notion. Rather than being seen as negative or trivial, we suggest that it is central to the concerns of organisation studies (and more widely) as a ambivalent everyday condition and experience. In particular, boredom is intimately linked to the project and promises of modernity and its associated effects on time, from factory industrialisation to contemporary work platforms. Both in terms of philosophical argument and applied fields such as art, literature, architecture and design, we suggest that boredom is both emancipatory/productive and alienating. Such an understanding establishes opportunities for research which would be central to the experience of contemporary paid employment and wider experience.

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In praise of boredom at work

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Ahuja

Parker³

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“…Concurrent with Goodstein (2005), boredom is an “experience without quality.” Chruszczewski (2020) sees it as “the chore effect” (p. 235). Over time, many researchers have revealed that urban environments with attitudes can change the characteristics that change indicators of people's impressions of those characteristics, which appear in people's responses and reactions (Dewey, 1984, 2005; Pallasmaa, 2014; Parreno, 2015). It should be noted that previous studies have indicated that every time a visitor goes to one of the environments, they think or imagines that they are surprised by a different life experience from the previous occasions gained in this or other environments (Parreno and Lonningdal, 2020).…”

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COVID-19 and “the trinity of boredom” in public spaces: urban form, social distancing and digital transformation

Abusaada

Elshater

2021

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PurposeOver the coming decades, the widespread application of social distancing creates challenges for the urban planning and design profession. This article aims to address the phenomenon of boredom in public places, its main influences that generate change in repetition, monotony and everyday lifestyle, whether positive, negative or both – depending on the binding and governing rules of urban shape variations and daily lifestyles.Design/methodology/approachThis viewpoint relied on literary narration to discuss the phenomenon of boredom vis-à-vis urban design and placemaking solutions in the face of social distancing. It builds its orientation by analyzing the works of nine scholars and five of their relevant theories.FindingsEvidence from previous studies helped develop three-pillar guidelines that can produce better results for post-pandemic development in the face of boredom. These pillars include recommendations for the trinity of heterogeneity for metamorphosis in urban form, changes in public life and digital transformation in a time of uncertainty on how to confront (un)seen boredom in public spaces. Practitioners should develop new insights into the relationship between people and place by reviewing existing paradigms in urban studies to avoid repetition, monotony and change in everyday life after a pandemic.Originality/valueThe added value here is in underlining boredom as one of the consequences of social distancing and lockdown applications building on the phenomenon's theorizers. The key contribution of this work is the three-pillar recommendation for confronting the boredom in public spaces that happens because of social distancing and lockdown.

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Circulation of home-emotions: The critique of architecture through reality TV

Smitheram,

Nakai Kidd

2024

Emotion, Space and Society

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Boredom and space: blunting and jading as causes of change in architecture

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In praise of boredom at work

In praise of boredom at work

COVID-19 and “the trinity of boredom” in public spaces: urban form, social distancing and digital transformation

Circulation of home-emotions: The critique of architecture through reality TV

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