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Guerrilla picnicking: appropriating a neighbourhood shopping centre as malleable public space
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Smit, J and Mate, K, Guerrilla picnicking: appropriating a neighbourhood shopping centre as malleable public space, Proceedings of the Shopping Centre 1943-2013: The Rise and Demise of a Ubiquitous Collective Architecture, 11-12 June 2015, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, pp. 97-111. ISBN 9789461864673 (2015) [Refereed Conference Paper]
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Abstract
Shopping centres are often maligned as undemocratic spaces, with a problematic
relationship between private ownership and public participation, between private
commercialization and public consumption, yet are offered here as a case study for everyday
but significant urban experiences. Shopping centre interiors provide uncanny opportunities
for public participation that can be seen to point to new concepts of citizenship. Through an
act of 'guerrilla picnicking' within a shopping centre, this paper provides a provocation for
examining the possibilities for spatial appropriation and public freedoms offered by a
neighbourhood shopping centre - opportunities for civic liberties that are often forgotten both
within discourses on quasi-public space, and in these conditional spaces of our city interiors.
By populating the quasi-public interior of a shopping centre with active citizens rather than
obedient subjects, greater opportunities for human connection and participation are offered in
an urban realm that continues to reduce and control these occurrences.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Conference Paper |
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Keywords: | shopping mall, public space, guerilla urbanism |
Research Division: | Built Environment and Design |
Research Group: | Architecture |
Research Field: | Interior design |
Objective Division: | Commercial Services and Tourism |
Objective Group: | Property, business support services and trade |
Objective Field: | Wholesale and retail trade |
UTAS Author: | Smit, J (Ms Jen Smit) |
UTAS Author: | Mate, K (Ms Kirsty Mate) |
ID Code: | 105662 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Deposited By: | Architecture |
Deposited On: | 2016-01-12 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-21 |
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