1st Edition
Making Leisure Work Architecture and the Experience Economy
Introduction Part 1: Stories about our Themed Environment 1. Work, Leisure, and the Architectural Everyday 2. The Narration of Everyday Experience 3. Space, Semiotics, and Scientism Part 2: The Experience of Experience 4. Extreme Narrative 5. Différant Myths 6. Entertainment Capacity 7. The Experience of a Lifestyle Part 3: Narrative Agitations 8. Telling Practices 9. Juridical Opinion 10. Happy Potties and other Alternative Narratives
Biography
Brian Lonsway is Associate Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture, USA. He is an architectural theorist and technology researcher whose work is invested in the evolving relationships between design technologies and spatial thought.
'Making Leisure Work is a work of uncommon seriousness and impeccable scholarship. Refracting Pine and Gilmore's The Experience Economy through the lens of Certeau's conceptualization of everyday spatial production, Brian Lonsway makes a convincing case for elevating architectural theory to a central place in interpreting themed environments and experiences. Highly recommended for graduate and upper level undergraduate seminars in architecture, consumer studies, cultural anthropology, leisure studies and urban sociology.' - John Hannigan, University of Toronto (Author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis)
'Brian Lonsway has created a welcomed addition to the literature on the politics of space and meaning. He maps out a range of issues in a way that challenges traditional interpretations of themed architecture while providing an important critical framework for engaging the built environment.' - Cities, Volume 26, 2009
