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Year: 2013
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ISBN 10: 0415637325 
ISBN 13: 9780415637329
Author: Kenny Cupers

From participatory architecture to interaction design, the question of how design accommodates use is driving inquiry in many creative fields. Expanding utility to embrace people’s everyday experience brings new promises for the social role of design. But this is nothing new. As the essays assembled in this collection show, interest in the elusive realm of the user was an essential part of architecture and design throughout the twentieth century. Use Matters is the first to assemble this alternative history, from the bathroom to the city, from ergonomics to cybernetics, and from Algeria to East Germany. It argues that the user is not a universal but a historically constructed category of twentieth-century modernity that continues to inform architectural practice and thinking in often unacknowledged ways.

Use Matters An Alternative History of Architecture 1st Table of contents:

I. Subjectivity and Knowledge

1. Isotype and Modern Architecture in Red Vienna

  • 1.1 Old Sachlichkeit vs. New Sachlichkeit

  • 1.2 Type: From Type to ISOTYPE: “The Vienna Method”

  • 1.3 The Political and Social Function of Architecture in Vienna

  • 1.4 A Critique of Rationalism and the Emergence of Graphic Representation

2. Architectural Handbooks and the User Experience

  • 2.1 Modern Handbooks and Scientific Management

  • 2.2 Standardized Buildings for Standardized Bodies

  • 2.3 Boredom and the User Experience: Re-evaluating Aesthetic and Functional Norms

  • 2.4 User Experience as a Discipline in Architectural Theory and Practice

3. Laboratory Modules and the Subjectivity of the Knowledge Worker

  • 3.1 Designing for Flexibility: The Module and the Human Being

  • 3.2 The Subjectivity of the Module: Machinic Grids vs. Psychological Sausages

  • 3.3 The Generalization of the Corporate Ideal in Architectural Design

4. Architects, Users, and the Social Sciences in Postwar America

  • 4.1 The 1950s: Postwar Design Principles and New Ideals

  • 4.2 The 1960s: Expanding the Role of the User in Architectural Practice

  • 4.3 The “User”: Social Science, Architecture, and the Shifting Subjectivity

  • 4.4 Conclusion: Reevaluating the Relationship Between Architects and Users

5. Spatial Experience and the Instruments of Architectural Theory

  • 5.1 Space, Measured: Reconstructing the User’s Relationship to Space

  • 5.2 Commercializing Meaning: Architecture as Branding and Consumption

  • 5.3 The Mental Map: Mapping User Experience and Social Space

  • 5.4 The Spatial Pattern: Symbolism, Semiotics, and the User

  • 5.5 Branding Consumer Space: Architecture, Consumption, and Social Identity

  • 5.6 The Self-Referentiality of Extreme Narrative and the Expanded Body of Architecture

II. Collectivity, Welfare, Consumption

6. The Shantytown in Algiers and the Colonization of Everyday Life

  • 6.1 Discovering the Bidonville: CIAM-Alger, 1953

  • 6.2 Translating the Bidonville: Djenan el Hasan, 1956–1962

  • 6.3 Recuperating the Bidonville: Logis d’Anne, 1983–1984

  • 6.4 Architectural Responses to Poverty: From Modernist Utopias to Pragmatic Solutions

7. New Swedes in the New Town: The Social Utopias of Modern Sweden

  • 7.1 Million Programming and the Architecture of Mass Housing

  • 7.2 Service Space for Citizens: Social Welfare and the Architecture of the Everyday

  • 7.3 A Crisis at the Center: The Failure of Modernist Planning Principles

  • 7.4 Rumbles with the Raggare: Socio-cultural Conflicts and the Urban Environment

  • 7.5 Re-Centering: New Social Goals in Swedish Housing and Urban Planning

  • 7.6 Conclusion: Uses or Users? A Critical Look at the Concept of the “User”

8. Henri Lefebvre: For and Against the “User”

  • 8.1 The Concept of Needs and its Limits in Lefebvre’s Thought

  • 8.2 From Needs to Practices: Lefebvre’s Study on the Pavillon

  • 8.3 The Politics of the User: Lefebvre’s Critique of Modern Architecture

9. Designed-in Safety: Ergonomics in the Bathroom

  • 9.1 From Alarmist Literature to Detroit: The Emergence of Ergonomics in Design

  • 9.2 From Ergonomics to Squat Closets: Global Design Practices and Safety

  • 9.3 “Unsafe at Any Faucet”: Critiques of Consumer-Centered Design in Domestic Spaces

10. Intelligentsia Design and the Postmodern Plattenbau

  • 10.1 Designing for the Intelligentsia: Architecture and Class

  • 10.2 Specific Platten for Specific People: East Berlin’s Spittelmarkt

  • 10.3 Catering to the Cadres: The Sorbian Quarter in Cottbus

  • 10.4 Public Art in the Provinces: The Pedestrian Zone of Frankfurt an der Oder

  • 10.5 Conclusion: The Role of Architecture in Defining and Catering to Elite Groups

11. WiMBY!’s New Collectives

  • 11.1 Hoogvliet as a Failure: An Analysis of the Social Housing Project

  • 11.2 The Concept of “Community” in the Postmodern Context

  • 11.3 Park and Villa The Heerlijkheid: Testing the Concept of New Urban Collectives

  • 11.4 Five Years Later: An Assessment of Social and Architectural Outcomes

III. Participation

12. Landscape and Participation in 1960s New York

  • 12.1 New Landscapes for New Publics: The Role of Landscape Architecture

  • 12.2 Jacob Riis Plaza: Inaugurating an Experiment in Participatory Design

  • 12.3 Vest-Pocket Parks: Open Space as Interface between Users and Urban Life

  • 12.4 Riverbank Park: A Participatory Environment and its Political Dimensions

  • 12.5 The Experiment Comes to an End: Lessons from the 1960s

13. Ergonomics of Democracy

  • 13.1 Manpower and Design: Ergonomics as a Democratic Tool in Post-War Design

  • 13.2 The Voyages of the Esso London: A Case Study in Socio-technical Obduracy

  • 13.3 Interpersonal Distance and Affect Control: Design as a Political Act

  • 13.4 Defensible Spaces: Architecture and the Politics of Public Safety

  • 13.5 Subtopian Designs: Challenging the Hegemonic Urban Order

14. Counter-projects and the Postmodern User

  • 14.1 Soothing the Traumatized User: The Aesthetic Mobilization of the User

  • 14.2 Mobilizing the User for Disciplinary Critique: Architect-Militant Collectives

  • 14.3 The Aesthetic Mobilization of the User: A Postmodern Strategy

  • 14.4 Issue-Based User Mobilization: Politics, Architecture, and Social Justice

15. The Paradox of Social Architectures

  • 15.1 Architectural Practice as a Means of Political Positioning

  • 15.2 Working with Different Arenas: Architecture and its Social Impacts

  • 15.3 The Changing Role of Architects in the Context of Political Movements

  • 15.4 The Ambiguity of Social Architecture: Constructing or Deconstructing the Social Order?

 

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