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Calvillo, Nerea (2018) Inviting atmospheres to the architecture table. In: Marres, Noortje and Guggenheim, Michael and Wilkie, Alex, (eds.) Inventing the social. Manchester, UK: Mattering Press, pp. 41-64. ISBN 9780995527751

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Abstract

In order to test this shift to the processual as well as architectural practice’s ability to design socialities, in this chapter I propose to think and work with a dynamic and seemingly intangible material: air. Although ignored throughout architectural history (Banham,1969) during the 1960’s and 1970’s there was a proliferation of inflatable structures that used air to explore the lightness, ephemerality, transparency and transportability of new plastics to propose new ways of living closer to the everyday, popular culture and political resistance (Dessauce, 1999; Topham, 2002). The project I discuss here, although sharing certain aesthetic qualities, was conceived differently. On the one hand, the Polivagina was not conceived as addressing air through its structural capacity, but on how its invisibility and dynamism destabilise architectural practice, requiring a transformation of methods, techniques, materials and social organizations. On the other hand, it acknowledges that the social is not the result of the inhabitation of inflatable structures; the air is already social. German philosoper and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk in his work on social foams (2005) proposes that sociality is not only about human exchanges of information (Wakeford, 2011), but is a foam that includes humans, structures, and the air and climate that brings them together. Then, taking the air into account in architecture shifts the attention beyond boundaries, such as walls and roofs, to what is in between them, working with humidity, pressure, smell, toxicity, and breath.

Item Type: Book Item
Subjects: N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Architecture -- Social aspects
Publisher: Mattering Press
Place of Publication: Manchester, UK
ISBN: 9780995527751
Book Title: Inventing the social
Editor: Marres, Noortje and Guggenheim, Michael and Wilkie, Alex
Official Date: 23 July 2018
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23 July 2018Published
30 May 2016Accepted
Number of Pages: 334
Page Range: pp. 41-64
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
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