The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture

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Autor(a) principal: Wirdelöv, Johan
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3310
Resumo: They are easily overlooked, but benches, trash bins, drinking fountains, bike stands, ashtray bins, and bollards do influence our ways of living. Street furniture can encourage or hold back behaviours, support different codes of conduct, or express the values of a society. This study is developed from the observation that the number of different roles taken on by street furniture seem to quickly increase in ways not attended to. We see new arrivals such as recycled, anti-homeless, skateboard-friendly, solar-powered, storytelling, phone-charging and event-making furniture entering public places. What are typical sociomaterial roles that these things play in urban culture of today? How do these roles matter? This article suggests a conceptualisation of three furniture roles: Carnivalesque street furniture takes part in events and temporary places. Behaviourist street furniture engages in how humans act in public. Cabinet-like street furniture makes itself heard through relocating shapes of other objects. These categories lead to two directions for further research; one concerning the institutions behind street furniture, and one concerning how street furniture shapes cities through influencing different kinds of ‘scapes.’ The aim of this article is to advance theory on an urban material culture that is evolving faster and faster. By conceptualising this deceptively innocent group of things and articulating its relations to the everyday structures of the city, I hope to provide a framework for further studies.
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spelling The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furnitureeveryday life; material culture; public space; sociomaterial densification; street furnitureThey are easily overlooked, but benches, trash bins, drinking fountains, bike stands, ashtray bins, and bollards do influence our ways of living. Street furniture can encourage or hold back behaviours, support different codes of conduct, or express the values of a society. This study is developed from the observation that the number of different roles taken on by street furniture seem to quickly increase in ways not attended to. We see new arrivals such as recycled, anti-homeless, skateboard-friendly, solar-powered, storytelling, phone-charging and event-making furniture entering public places. What are typical sociomaterial roles that these things play in urban culture of today? How do these roles matter? This article suggests a conceptualisation of three furniture roles: Carnivalesque street furniture takes part in events and temporary places. Behaviourist street furniture engages in how humans act in public. Cabinet-like street furniture makes itself heard through relocating shapes of other objects. These categories lead to two directions for further research; one concerning the institutions behind street furniture, and one concerning how street furniture shapes cities through influencing different kinds of ‘scapes.’ The aim of this article is to advance theory on an urban material culture that is evolving faster and faster. By conceptualising this deceptively innocent group of things and articulating its relations to the everyday structures of the city, I hope to provide a framework for further studies.Cogitatio2020-11-12info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3310oai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3310Urban Planning; Vol 5, No 4 (2020): Built Environment, Ethics and Everyday Life; 121-1312183-7635reponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAPenghttps://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/3310https://doi.org/10.17645/up.v5i4.3310https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/article/view/3310/3310Copyright (c) 2020 Johan Wirdelövhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessWirdelöv, Johan2022-12-20T10:59:42Zoai:ojs.cogitatiopress.com:article/3310Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:21:52.652603Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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title The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
spellingShingle The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
Wirdelöv, Johan
everyday life; material culture; public space; sociomaterial densification; street furniture
title_short The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
title_full The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
title_fullStr The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
title_full_unstemmed The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
title_sort The Trash Bin on Stage: On the Sociomaterial Roles of Street Furniture
author Wirdelöv, Johan
author_facet Wirdelöv, Johan
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv everyday life; material culture; public space; sociomaterial densification; street furniture
topic everyday life; material culture; public space; sociomaterial densification; street furniture
description They are easily overlooked, but benches, trash bins, drinking fountains, bike stands, ashtray bins, and bollards do influence our ways of living. Street furniture can encourage or hold back behaviours, support different codes of conduct, or express the values of a society. This study is developed from the observation that the number of different roles taken on by street furniture seem to quickly increase in ways not attended to. We see new arrivals such as recycled, anti-homeless, skateboard-friendly, solar-powered, storytelling, phone-charging and event-making furniture entering public places. What are typical sociomaterial roles that these things play in urban culture of today? How do these roles matter? This article suggests a conceptualisation of three furniture roles: Carnivalesque street furniture takes part in events and temporary places. Behaviourist street furniture engages in how humans act in public. Cabinet-like street furniture makes itself heard through relocating shapes of other objects. These categories lead to two directions for further research; one concerning the institutions behind street furniture, and one concerning how street furniture shapes cities through influencing different kinds of ‘scapes.’ The aim of this article is to advance theory on an urban material culture that is evolving faster and faster. By conceptualising this deceptively innocent group of things and articulating its relations to the everyday structures of the city, I hope to provide a framework for further studies.
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