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The trash bin on stage: on the sociomaterial roles of street furniture
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Abstract They are easily overlooked, but benches, trash bins, drinking fountains, bike stands, ashtray bins, and bollards do influence our ways of living. Street furniture can encourage or hold back behaviours, support different codes of conduct, or express the values of a society. This study is developed fr... mehr
They are easily overlooked, but benches, trash bins, drinking fountains, bike stands, ashtray bins, and bollards do influence our ways of living. Street furniture can encourage or hold back behaviours, support different codes of conduct, or express the values of a society. This study is developed from the observation that the number of different roles taken on by street furniture seem to quickly increase in ways not attended to. We see new arrivals such as recycled, anti-homeless, skateboard-friendly, solar-powered, storytelling, phone-charging and event-making furniture entering public places. What are typical sociomaterial roles that these things play in urban culture of today? How do these roles matter? This article suggests a conceptualisation of three furniture roles: Carnivalesque street furniture takes part in events and temporary places. Behaviourist street furniture engages in how humans act in public. Cabinet-like street furniture makes itself heard through relocating shapes of other objects. These categories lead to two directions for further research; one concerning the institutions behind street furniture, and one concerning how street furniture shapes cities through influencing different kinds of ‘scapes.’ The aim of this article is to advance theory on an urban material culture that is evolving faster and faster. By conceptualising this deceptively innocent group of things and articulating its relations to the everyday structures of the city, I hope to provide a framework for further studies.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Alltag; Alltagskultur; öffentlicher Raum; Stadt
Klassifikation
Raumplanung und Regionalforschung
Siedlungssoziologie, Stadtsoziologie
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Freie Schlagwörter
everyday life; material culture; sociomaterial densification; street furniture
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2020
Seitenangabe
S. 121-131
Zeitschriftentitel
Urban Planning, 5 (2020) 4
Heftthema
Built environment, ethics and everyday life
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)