Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-19

Warwick, Elanor; Lees, Loretta

doi:10.1080/02723638.2022.2039435

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“…14 Private activities spilled over into surrounding public space with plazas, decks and stairwells becoming outdoor gyms, workspaces or simply places to talk and exchange information. 15 In some neighbourhoods this liminal use of surrounding space was well-established, but in others this emergent use of communal space encouraged new thinking about the social infrastructures supporting urban life. Entering the main gallery space, we immediately see a related piece, Setting Out 4.…”

Section: Room To Livementioning

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Living rooms: Anne Tallentire’s Material Distance

Hubbard

Wilkinson

2023

cultural geographies

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Cultural geography has a long and fruitful tradition of working at the intersections between geography and performance art: in this piece we build upon this by considering how artistic practice can shed light on the housing crisis via a focus on quotidian practices of housing design. Here, we focus on Anne Tallentire’s exhibition Material Distance, which took place in 2022–23 at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK. A conceptual artist working with moving image, installation, performance and photography, Tallentire’s work has frequently addressed issues of spatial cognition, homemaking and transience. Material Distance extends this interest by foregrounding issues of housing size, adopting the abstract forms of representation – floorplans, measurements, technical drawings – which professionals use for determining the material and physical requirements of domestic inhabitation. Contrasting abstract and lived experiences of home, and comparing housing constructed on post-war council estates with some of the smaller homes recently converted from industrial or retail premises, Tallentire’s work invites us to develop a critical awareness of dimensionality through an embodied encounter with art that is relational, performative and experiential.

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Section: Room To Livementioning

confidence: 99%

Living rooms: Anne Tallentire’s Material Distance

Hubbard

Wilkinson

2023

cultural geographies

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“…Within the domestic violence and abuse literature, rather than a space of sanctuary, the home is considered a site of coercive control, harm and trauma (Warrington, 2001). At the heart of this is recognition that public and private spheres are indistinguishable (Burrell, 2014; Warwick & Lees, 2022); the scales at which harm occurs are multiple and relational (Pain, 2014); and the home, even in less spectacular moments, is an unstable politicised space (Meth, 2003). We situate our research within feminist/critical geographies of home and domestic abuse literature to draw attention to proximate harms perpetrated by neighbours who come to colonise the life worlds of those victimised.…”

Section: Geographies Of the Home And Harmmentioning

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Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships

Clayton,

Donovan,

Macdonald

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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In this paper we introduce the concept of ‘domestic colonisation’ as a contribution to the literature on critical geographies of home. This provides a lens to focus on the ways in which domestic spaces might be exploited and/or dominated though familiar relationships. With reference to two research projects in North East England, we explore everyday occupations and sieges of home‐spaces by neighbours as a means of reinforcing positions of relative social advantage. We show how these experiences become overwhelming through the intrusion of home‐spaces and (with it) the life worlds of already structurally vulnerable(ised) communities. Domestic colonisation allows us to think through both the damage done through/to the home and connections beyond those spaces. To do this we focus on ‘home takeovers’ (or ‘cuckooing’) and ‘hate relationships’. Our work on cuckooing shows how the occupation and control of the home by those who re‐produce and seize upon structurally vulnerable(ised) people, is a process which re‐configures the home as an exploitable resource. Understandings of home and intimate social relationships as ‘private’, combined with complexities regarding culpability, conceal the damage done in contexts of diminished social infrastructure. With reference to our work on hate relationships, we outline how homes are a means of identifying and targeting those who become subjected to a range of hateful acts. This produces everyday spaces of siege and entrapment that control, immobilise and are difficult to escape. Formal interventions are unable to adequately support those victimised through lack of recognition, misrecognition as atomised disputes and a tendency to (re)move those victimised. We end by questioning how we might better address the needs of those subjected to such harms, with an emphasis on the relational production of the home.

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“…For example, Peters & Masoudinejad show that adaptable balconies can enable changes to indoor-outdoor connectivity and better apartment functionality. Marco et al also stressed the importance of access to external spaces as part of the home and threshold and marginal spaces (see also Warwick & Lees 2022) and flexibility to incorporate these associated spaces into living areas as a tactic to overcome insufficient space standards. Smektała & Baborska-Narozṅy noted how the intensity of usage of balconies was a direct response to the external environmental conditions, finding that balconies facing green spaces, trees or more private courtyards were more regularly used than those too exposed.…”

Section: Environmental Adaptabilitymentioning

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Housing adaptability: new research, emerging practices and challenges

Pelsmakers

Warwick

2022

Buildings and Cities

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HIGHLIGHTSThe underlying issues of why housing adaptability is important today are introduced, together with the drivers and barriers to uptake. This editorial explains the different kinds of adaptability (environmental, spatial, social and multi-use(r)) and how they can be achieved. The themes and individual papers in this special issue are discussed, together with their individual, community and societal importance. The global pandemic highlighted the realities of achieving incremental spatial adaptations, but also the attitudinal changes enabling temporary 'choreographing' of different social uses of spaces. New methods for investigating housing adaptability are also highlighted to better understand occupants' needs and to demonstrate how adaptability adds value to occupants. Residents have an active role in undertaking temporal adaptations. However, this depends on provisions made by clients, developers, designers and managers involving the layout, design and multifunctional uses of space. This includes making outdoor spaces more adaptable and developing scenarios that allow dwellings to accommodate changes over time (daily, seasonally and over life-course cycles). Adaptable approaches rely on careful planning and design of room layouts (and the services that support them) to enable connection between rooms and different uses of rooms without restriction of use by residents. Housing adaptability should be based on inclusivity and equity.

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Osmosis across defensible space: observations and lessons from dérives in London during COVID-19

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Living rooms: Anne Tallentire’s Material Distance

Living rooms: Anne Tallentire’s Material Distance

Domestic colonisation: The centrality of the home in experiences of home‐takeovers and hate relationships

Housing adaptability: new research, emerging practices and challenges

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