Negoiated Stories in Public Space

Design professionals and environmental social scientists understand the human modified environment as a material production of cultures. As a result, we also support the idea of spaces as communicative. The contextually defined relations between objects, places, and people communicate the values, decisions, and choices made throughout a broadly defined process of placemaking. Places have meanings, they tell stories. Thus narrating is one aspect or part of deCerteau\u27s conception of spatial practices (de Certeau, 1984, xiv). Yet because values differ, the same place may tell different stories to different people

A Ruin Treatment: Social Context and human Scale at a Kingston Abattoir

Participatory design, ruin, industrial landscapes, storytellin

A Ruin Treatment: Social Context and human Scale at a Kingston Abattoir

Participatory design, ruin, industrial landscapes, storytellin

Negoiated Stories in Public Space

Design professionals and environmental social scientists understand the human modified environment as a material production of cultures. As a result, we also support the idea of spaces as communicative. The contextually defined relations between objects, places, and people communicate the values, decisions, and choices made throughout a broadly defined process of placemaking. Places have meanings, they tell stories. Thus "narrating" is one aspect or part of deCerteau's conception of spatial practices (de Certeau, 1984, xiv). Yet because values differ, the same place may tell different stories to different people.This abstract is from Design for Diversity: Proceedings of the Thirty-sixth Annual Conference of the Environmental Design Research Association, ed. Habib Chaudhury (Edmond, OK: Environmental Design Research Association, 2005). Posted with permission.</p