Critical Debates

Article 6: Decolonizing Shanghai: Design and Material Culture in the Photographs of Hu Yang   Tai, E. (2009). Decolonizing Shanghai: Design and Material Culture in the Photographs of Hu Yang.  Design Issues ,  25 (3), 30-43. An author who lives in Shanghai won many designs and academic awards from Tulane University and Harvard University. Earl Tai like to leave a lasting impression on this word and on people with his project. He thinks that if something does not have communal value, it may be boring. Also, Tai interested in exploring and try different materials. Trying different things together enjoyable for Tai such as, historical and philosophical or ethical or poetical. (building the good city, 2010) Image 1: http://buildingthegoodcity.typepad.com/building-the-good-city/2010/05/insight-earl-tai.html The main objectives of Earl Tai’s ‘Decolonizing Shanghai’ is that analyze different cultures which situated in the same city. Gen...

Article 5: Transnational Embodied Belonging Within ‘Edge Habitats’ by: Basia Sliwinska 
 Sliwinska, Basia  (2016)  Transnational embodied belonging within ‘edge habitats’.  Third Text, 29 (4-5). pp. 287-309. Dr. Basia Sliwinska who is art theorist and art historian investigate 20 th and 21 st - century art.  The research interests of the author are feminist aesthetics of modern women artists, feminist art history, citizenship and gender inside of modern women’s art practice. Currently, she is working in University of the Arts London and she works as a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Studies. Previously, Basia worked in at Loughborough University and the School of Art and Design (Middlesex University) (Arts, n.d.). Image 1: https://smboneva.wordpress.com/2016/10/24/basia-sliwinska-transnational-embodied-belonging-within-edge-habitats/ (Accessed date: 20 October 2017) The main target...

Article 4: Landscape, memory and contemporary design. Karamanea, P. (2015). Landscape, memory and contemporary design.  Craft Plus Design Enquiry , (7). Panita Karamanea who was born in Athens graduated in the Architectural School of Athens (1998).  Following, she completed her master in Barcelona, Escuela Technica Superior (2001) in Landscape Architecture department. She won many awards from the competitions she participated in. Karamanea interested in the built environment, reciprocal integration, urban design, landscape architecture and ecological design. Currently, Karamanea is working as an assistant professor in School of Architecture - Technical University of Crete. (School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete. n.d.) Image 1: Panita Karamanea. Available at: http://tpa.gr/index.php/people/view/30   (Accessed date: 14 October 2017) Text tackled into two parts. In the first part, ‘conceptual approaches to the landscap...

Article 3: Marc Augé – Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity x Augé, M. ,1995. About Non-places.  Architectural Design ,  66 , 82-83. Marc Auge who is French anthropologist born in 1935. We can analyze the life of Auge in three phases. First stage: He started to work in West Africa with research Ivory Coast where the Alladian peoples based. Second stage: European stage, Author focused Parisian’s modern life. In this term, he also reflects own experimentation and he compared places where investigate. The third stage which is known global phase, four books were written by Auge. One of them is Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995). His studies aforethought the philosophical power of anthropology of "non-places" alike airports and highways described temporariness and continual transition. Wikipedia (2017) The architecture relies on the illusion of the ideology of a prison. It has a share of the aestheti...

McKellar, S., 2015. Contested Spaces: The Problem with Modern Psychiatric Interiors.  Interiors ,  6 (1), 21-39. Susie McKellar is completed her master and Ph.D. programme in Royal College of Art. She has many types of research about psychiatric interiors design. Recently she is working the Institute of Psychiatry and South Lambeth and Maudsley Mental Health Trust in London. (McKellar, 2015) McKellar’s paper demonstrates that the importance of interior space design in psychiatric wards and it points out the effect of design on the people. Also, it represents the evolution of psychiatric approaches in years. Modern design and contemporary psychiatry are one of the different approaches. Additionally, the study was supported by giving examples and types of research. The article was promoted by using different authors views. The text was intended for a public audience because it includes common words and definitions. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) (1...

Architecture/Mouvement/Continuité (October 1984) originally from a lecture ‘Des Espaces Autres’, (March 1967), trans. Jay Miskowiec. Michel Foucault who is French historian and philosopher born in 1926. He wrote several works from psychology to sociology, from biology to criminology. While Foucault adopted Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche in his works, he refused Hegelianism  and  Marxism . Also, He generally researched the problems that sexuality, emotional suffering and exclusion topics. Foucault examined his critiques both practical and theoretical. For example, instead of just write about jail; he promoted protest. (Encyclopaedia Britanica,2017) According to Foucault, there are two different spaces. These are “Utopia” which sites without places and the other is “Heterotopia’’ which sites between other places and utopias (Foucault, 1984). Foucault begins by analyzing heterotopias, focusing on the spatial phenomenon. Foucault describes it as a period of time that we are ...