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Homing social housing in Brussels: engagements in architectural anthropology through three visualisations.
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Housing Studies . Jul2024, Vol. 39 Issue 7, p1739-1762. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Architectural anthropology offers a way to critically analyse spaces through the social life that happens around them. It is a qualitative approach that relies on ethnography to connect larger systems and subjective dimensions, self-reflexivity, and the use of visualisations as a key analytical tool. This paper reflects on the possible contribution of architectural anthropology to housing studies. More specifically, it looks at homing processes in social housing, interrogating how non-domestic spaces perform through tenants' inhabitation practices. It tests ways to visualise ethnographic data gathered during immersive fieldwork that involved participant observation and informal interactions in a high-rise estate in Brussels. Three types of visualisations (subjective map, annotated photograph, lived-in axonometry) are presented to articulate the paper's discussion of homing, un-homing and de-homing processes at the level of a district, urban interstices, and beyond social housing. Ultimately, the paper concludes that architectural anthropology may contribute further to housing studies by exploring the relationship between home(making) and urban contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HOUSING
*ANTHROPOLOGY
*VISUALIZATION
*CITIES & towns
*TENANTS
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02673037
- Volume :
- 39
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Housing Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177963985
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2022.2146063