Heterotopia and the City

Dehaene, Michiel; Cauter, Lieven De

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“…Genocchio's (, p. 36) point is probably more relevant today, in that many appropriations of the notion provide little critical engagement with the text, simply ‘calling up heterotopia as some theoretical deus ex machina ’. However, a collection of over twenty essays by mainly architects, planners and urbanists, Heterotopia and the City (Dehaene and De Cauter ,), also demonstrates a seriously considered range of potentially useful applications. Are there any commonalities in the various applications and has the idea anything to offer future research?…”

Section: Heterotopia's Cottage Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Geographies of Heterotopia

Johnson

2013

Geography Compass

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This article explores the ongoing fascination with Foucault's brief and rather sketchy idea of heterotopia. Drawing out some key lessons from the most sustained interpretations of this curious spatio‐temporal concept, it addresses weaknesses and potential contradictions and goes on to highlight trends and emerging themes in studies that incorporate the notion. The article argues that although the uses of Foucault's accounts of heterotopia are bewilderingly diverse, heterotopias are most productively understood in the context of Foucault's insistence on ‘making difference’ and their adoption as a tool of analysis to illuminate the multifaceted features of cultural and social spaces and to invent new ones.

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Section: Heterotopia's Cottage Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Geographies of Heterotopia

Johnson

2013

Geography Compass

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“…Both places seek to replicate, in microcosm, wild spaces that no longer exist elsewhere, or are at least greatly diminished by human activity. These insular microcosms are hybrid animal–human spaces, consistent with the characteristic role of heterotopias in ‘break[ing] up entrenched binaries such as private/public, ideal/real and nature/culture’ (Dehaene & De Cauter , p. 90).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…One of the recurring characteristics of heterotopias as empirical sites is that they distort or alter time in some way, often through temporal discontinuities. This may occur, for example, through openings, closings, departures and schedules that interrupt the otherwise banal continuity of time (Dehaene & De Cauter ). The ‘embodiment of different aspects of time’ (Johnson , p. 798) can be seen in the regulation of visitation (e.g., libraries and music festival sites – see Lees ; Kearns ).…”

Section: Islands As U(hetero)topia: Islands As Archipelagosmentioning

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“…More theoretically, this work also speaks to the efforts required to maintain the characteristics of a heterotopic space in which normality is suspended, thereby maintaining a sense of refuge, haven and sanctuary (Dehaene & De Cauter ). In summary, Rotoroa is a place of unexpected juxtapositions, including sculptures, heritage buildings, conference facilities, rental accommodation and decoy birds.…”

Section: Rotoroa Island and The Auckland Zoo: An Archipelagic Relatiomentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Rotoroa Island and Auckland Zoo partnership: Connecting heterotopic spaces

2016

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In partnership, Rotoroa Island and Auckland Zoo in the Hauraki Gulf have established a conservation sanctuary that has linked a literal sea‐bound island with an urban and metaphorical island. Each entity (Rotoroa and the Zoo) has a presence in each other's space. Ideas of archipelago as well as Foucault's heterotopia assist our interpretation of these developments as expressed in the observed landscape, policy documents and media sources. We conclude that an interpenetration of influences is enabling a diverse set of experiences within the controlled bounds of two intensely managed and insular spaces.

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“…By listing dozens of such counter-sites, he explored "spaces of otherness" likely to disrupt taken-for-granted realities and called for a "heterotopology"-a systematic study of sites that mirror and contest the space in which we live. Although such places have been investigated in various ways in architecture, design, sociology, geography, and the humanities (Decrop and Toussaint, 2012;Dehaene and De Cauter, 2008;Hetherington, 1997;Soja, 1995), heterotopias remain under-documented in marketing literature (for an exception, see Chatzidakis et al, 2012). Heterotopias articulate six overall principles that emphasize their (1) ubiquity (found in every culture), (2) historicity (are not immutable but vary over time), (3) heterogeneity (assemble incompatible sites in the same place), (4) temporality (accompany a break in space and time), (5) porosity (are simultaneously open and closed), and (6) dialogical/relational function (both represent and contest the dominant order to which they respond).…”

Section: Production Of Space Social Ordering and Heterotopiasmentioning

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Of counter spaces of provisioning

2017

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This article considers the concept of heterotopia in the context of public space. Based on the observations and interviews with 19 disposers and/or gleaners operating on bulky item collection days, it shows that the sidewalk is (1) a liminal space for unwanted objects that are in transition between disposal and destruction or reappropriation; (2) a regularly practiced space, the meaning of which is redefined by disposers (for depositing) and gleaners (for provisioning); (3) a place of illusion that mirrors the profusion of goods produced by the linear economy; and (4) a space of compensation for the pitfalls of the consumer society. These findings provide a theoretical basis for the new concept of parasite heterotopia, a term that refers to a space that is appropriated by a tactical use of a regulated place, which both reflects and contests a dominant ordering on its own territory. The article adds to previous literature on heterotopias and sustainability by questioning how this "time-space" is involved in the dialectics of capitalism and criticism.

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Heterotopia and the City

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