From Narrative Objects to Poetic Practices: On Figurative Modes of Urbanism
In the context of increased interest in literary methods for spatial design, this article argues for a reconsideration of narrative methods for urban planning. It holds that when narrative is taken not as a reified object but as an active mode, in which a strategy for organizing the phenomenal world...
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| description | In the context of increased interest in literary methods for spatial design, this article argues for a reconsideration of narrative methods for urban planning. It holds that when narrative is taken not as a reified object but as an active mode, in which a strategy for organizing the phenomenal world allows for form to be created from and within the profusion of signs, the importance of heterogeneous non-narrative elements comes into full force, in particular around figurative or metaphorical language, even or especially within the narrative frame. Drawing on work from Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò on and around the “porous city” figure and the Greater Paris international consultations, the article makes a case for a narrative of poetic practices. By identifying the polysemic agency of the poetic function, the territorial figure becomes not a comparison between two terms, but a complex linking of similarities in multiple dissimilar states, creating an effect of rapprochement with new possible futures. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-698ec0f0997145c5a2c7bed0389c0e0e2022-12-22T04:27:14ZengCogitatioUrban Planning2183-76352022-09-017310.17645/up.v7i3.53702654From Narrative Objects to Poetic Practices: On Figurative Modes of UrbanismJeremy Allan Hawkins0Department of City and Territory, Strasbourg National School of Architecture, FranceIn the context of increased interest in literary methods for spatial design, this article argues for a reconsideration of narrative methods for urban planning. It holds that when narrative is taken not as a reified object but as an active mode, in which a strategy for organizing the phenomenal world allows for form to be created from and within the profusion of signs, the importance of heterogeneous non-narrative elements comes into full force, in particular around figurative or metaphorical language, even or especially within the narrative frame. Drawing on work from Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò on and around the “porous city” figure and the Greater Paris international consultations, the article makes a case for a narrative of poetic practices. By identifying the polysemic agency of the poetic function, the territorial figure becomes not a comparison between two terms, but a complex linking of similarities in multiple dissimilar states, creating an effect of rapprochement with new possible futures.https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/5370figurative languagemetaphormodenarrativepoeticsurbanism |
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| title | From Narrative Objects to Poetic Practices: On Figurative Modes of Urbanism |
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