City On-The-Go

A music teacher, his fi rst grader, and her retired grandpa are rushing through the same subway stop every morning. Each SUBJECT reflects a different set of mobile spatial experiences in the same daily urban space. A cook, his delivery boy, and their alleyway vendor are syncopa ting the pedestrian fl ows at the same corner of a busy street on every working day. Each spatial PRACTICE of its subject intervenes the urban dynamics to spontaneously activate various patterns in a seemingly unchanging setting of an urban pocket. A zebra crossing between a newly built residential compound and the adjacent business block, an alleyway stretching between a restaurant and a doorway of an apartment, and a revolving door at the gate between a department store and its front shopping plaza are common places in a city. Each SPACE in any generic urban setting can be experienced differently by different SUBJECTs for different PRACTICEs. Inspired by Tim Cresswell’s “Geographies of Mobilities: Practices, Spaces, Subjects”, this on-going short exercise from an urban design studio investigates spatial practices of urban mobilities. Each student produces experimental models and drawings, as personalized methods of design research through different modes of representation, and develops subjective readings of urban experiences. These reflective images also project alternative visions of how urban spaces could be diversified.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.FALL.19.40

Volume Editors
Amy Larimer, Deborah Berke, Diana Lin, Drew Krafcik, John Barton & Sunil Bald

ISBN
978-1-944214-24-1