Considering graffiti as active ambiance creation in public space

Considering graffiti as active ambiance creation in public space

[SHS:ARCHI] Humanities and Social Sciences/Architecture, space management

[SHS:SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology

graffiti

public space

participation

urban design

tactics

Understanding graffiti and other non-verbal communication as a form of ambiance may open professionals to more participatory methods, deepening the quality of the city for the user. This project offers an approach for planners and designers to learn from the active resistance of the norms of use in public space. By a brief review of graffiti literature and a discussion of observations of graffiti tags made on walks in the Montréal City borough Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, tactics for encouraging participation and conversation with liminal space through the lens of the non-verbal communication of graffiti are proposed.

Cudmore, Jaimie

Ambiances in action. Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Ambiances / Ambiances en acte(s). Actes du 2nd Congrès International sur les Ambiances

Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012

2012

ENG

conference proceeding

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00745532

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/74/55/32/PDF/ambiances2012_cudmore.pdf

Montreal

Canada