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Places Made After Their Stories: Design and the art of choreotopography

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Places Made After Their Stories: Design and the art of choreotopography
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Paul Carter
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:200
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
ISBN/Barcode 9781742587608
ClassificationsDewey:711
Audience
Professional & Vocational
General

Publishing Details

Publisher UWA Publishing
Imprint UWAP
Publication Date 1 November 2015
Publication Country Australia

Description

How is emotional meaning found in places? How can creating new urban spaces be a vehicle for less adversarial forms of political coexistence, new customs of social innovation? Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside us and the ecstatic desire at the heart of democratic community-making can come together to inform contemporary landscape and urban design. Using case studies of public space design from Alice Springs to Perth and Melbourne, in which the author forged for himself the novel role of designer-dramaturg, Carter describes a new approach to place-making in which topography and choreography fuse.

Author Biography

Paul Carter is a highly acclaimed writer, artist and interdisciplinary scholar. His book The Road to Botany Bay and his artwork Nearamnew (at Federation Square, Melbourne) are particularly well-known. He is Creative Director of the design studio Material Thinking (established 2007), and Professor of Design (Urbanism) in the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University.