Constellations of the In-between: Architectural Speculations in Contested Urban Interstices

The city, far from being a physical object with a coherent view, is a complex assemblage of material and immaterial events and unfolding in space and time. Against this complexity and formlessness, the capacity of architecture is commonly located in the imposition of limits. Yet amidst an increasingly transdisciplinary field, and in an environment of uncertainty and change, the nature of architectural intervention and its sources of agency increasingly come into question. In this questioning of spatial design practice today, the concerns of aesthetics, politics and ethics are inseparable. This is unmistakably manifest in urban conditions of interstitiality: the many overlooked, and often contested, in-between territories at large across the city. ‘Constellations of the In-between’ explores such marginal spaces, with an interest in the latent forms of agency found in the complex spatio-temporal topologies of material elements, social frameworks, and cultural practices.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2