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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
We Live Here: Media Architecture as Critical Spatial Practice
Contributor:
Colangelo, Dave
Published:
SAGE Publications, 2021
Published in:
Space and Culture, 24 (2021) 4, Seite 501-516
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1177/1206331219843809
ISSN:
1552-8308;
1206-3312
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>This article asks how media architecture in the form of urban screens, LED façades, and public projection might function as a critical spatial practice in the hybrid digital and physical spaces of smart cities thereby challenging prevailing practices and theories of monumentality. The activist work of The Illuminator’s guerilla projections of the 99% symbol on buildings in Manhattan, the treatment of highly visible and iconic structures as media channels and sites of public discourse such as an ongoing research-creation project with a community-led media façade in downtown Toronto, and the #WeLiveHere2017 project at the Waterloo Estate in Sydney which supports tenants in protesting gentrification by illuminating their windows, demonstrate how new forms and practices of monumentality through media architecture can better engage citizens and cities in addressing important societal issues such as housing, poverty, indigenous rights, and discrimination in increasingly privatized public spaces.</jats:p>