Opis: Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy - Brian Lonsway, B Lonsway

"Making Leisure Work" explores architecture's role in the spatial construction of themed experience design and provides a new architectural theoretical framework for its social interpretation. Using cognitive mapping, entertainment capacity design, leisure strategy planning and other techniques this text provides a unique presentation of the detailed mechanisms of spatial control inherent in their architectural rectification. By creatively - and sometimes playfully - integrating ethnographic, historical and semiotic methods, this book unravels the development of what is perhaps one of the most complex and subtly advancing contemporary tools of spatial control. "Making Leisure Work "offers a new theoretical framework for reading contemporary architecture and encourages alternative inquiries into the contemporary social politics of spatial production. 'Making Leisure Work is a work of uncommon seriousness and impeccable scholarship. Refracting Pine and Gilmore's The Experience Economy through the lens of Certeau's conceptualization of everyday spatial production, Brian Lonsway makes a convincing case for elevating architectural theory to a central place in interpreting themed environments and experiences. Highly recommended for graduate and upper level undergraduate seminars in architecture, consumer studies, cultural anthropology, leisure studies and urban sociology.' - John Hannigan, University of Toronto (Author of Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis) 'Brian Lonsway has created a welcomed addition to the literature on the politics of space and meaning. He maps out a range of issues in a way that challenges traditional interpretations of themed architecture while providing an important critical framework for engaging the built environment.' - Cities, Volume 26, 2009Introduction Part 1: Stories about our Themed Environment 1. Work, Leisure, and the Architectural Everyday 2. The Narration of Everyday Experience 3. Space, Semiotics, and Scientism Part 2: The Experience of Experience 4. Extreme Narrative 5. Differant Myths 6. Entertainment Capacity 7. The Experience of a Lifestyle Part 3: Narrative Agitations 8. Telling Practices 9. Juridical Opinion 10. Happy Potties and other Alternative Narratives

Szczegóły: Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy - Brian Lonsway, B Lonsway

Tytuł: Making Leisure Work: Architecture and the Experience Economy
Autor: Brian Lonsway, B Lonsway
Producent: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415398015
Rok produkcji: 2009
Ilość stron: 272
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.69 kg

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