Spatial Practices
Research in this thematic area is concerned with the way in which social practices contribute to the production of urban environments. It refers to the city as lived space, and seeks to examine the activities of individual and collective users, and analyze urban experiences and routines of everyday life that can be both material (or physical) means of inhabiting and contesting spaces as well as imagined ones. By focusing on a multiplicity of actors and publics, and recognizing the dynamics of social division and interaction, this thematic area positions place-making as a political practice, and the social production of space as a generative and necessary condition of the city.
The themes that have been explored so far under this umbrella cover an array of spatial practices and their intersections, and can be framed as negotiations, claims or rights over space. They include urban security and militarization, street occupation, play and leisure, policing, home-making, mobility, labor, refuge and displacement, territorial organization, neighborhood formation and the perception of boundaries to name but a few.
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21.07.2020
Project
Vacancy as Opportunity: Re-activating Public Life in Beirut
- Social Value Of Land
- Spatial Practices
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03.06.2020
Project
Mapping Security in Beirut: A Decade of Research
- Spatial Practices
- Critical Mapping
- Planning Actors and Scales
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PUBLISHED 2018
Book
Refugees as City-Makers
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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10.09.2018
Project
Inhabiting the City, Remaking its Quarters
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
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10.09.2018
Project
Seeing the City as a Delivery Driver
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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15.6.2018
Project
Syrian-Owned Businesses in the City
- Urban Citizenship
- Critical Mapping
- Spatial Practices
- Urban Informality
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PUBLISHED 2015
Newspaper Supplement
Practicing the Public
- Spatial Practices
- Critical Mapping
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PUBLISHED 2013
Book
Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shiite South Beirut
- Planning Actors and Scales
- Spatial Practices