1st Edition

Urban Sensographies

Edited By Nicolas Whybrow Copyright 2021
214 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Urban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be implemented to gather usable ‘felt data’ about the environment of the city as the basis for creating embodied mappings. The contributors to this fascinating volume seek to draw conclusions about the constitution, character and morphology of urban space as public,... Read more

Urban sensographies: an introduction

NICOLAS WHYBROW

1. Ring cycle: a Coventry convolute

NICOLAS WHYBROW

2. The ignorant camera

MICHAEL PIGOTT

3. Moving and mapping: exploring embodied approaches to urban design and planning

EMMA MEEHAN & NATALIE GARRETT BROWN, WITH AMY VORIS & CHRISTIAN KIPP

4. urbanflows (immersed in worlds): choreographing body-environment metabolisms

CAROLYN DEBY

Conclusion: paradigms of practice

NICOLAS WHYBROW

Postscript: to sense the city

CARL LAVERY

Biography

Nicolas Whybrow is Professor of Urban Performance Studies in the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures at the University of Warwick, UK. His most recent book is Contemporary Art Biennials in Europe: the Work of Art in the Complex City (2020).