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Space in the Image
Perspectives on Experiencing Urban Space through Digital Media
A reflection on the dynamic interplay between spatial experience and its representations in cinema and photography.
Space in the Image focuses on cinematic and photographic portrayals of the built environment, from individual buildings to entire cities. It addresses a timely and relevant topic, reflecting the prominence of urbanization and the widespread use of digital audiovisual media in architecture, planning, and design. Bringing together scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and digital media, the volume engages with both contemporary practice and current debates in the field.
In light of the growing ubiquity of media platforms and the immediacy of digital representation, the contributors critically examine the evolving relationship between spatial experience and its mediated forms. These inquiries are situated within the broader context of accelerating urbanization, making the book timely for architects, urban designers, planners, and media theorists alike. Rather than treating images as static records of the past, the volume interrogates their role as active participants in shaping contemporary urban life, identity, and memory.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Narrating Spatial Experience
Street Haunting: The Flaneuristic Eye of Street Photography in New York
Mrinmayee Bhoot
The Empty Eerie: The Uncanny, Liminal, and the Post-Apocalyptic Nature of Empty Spaces in Architectural Photography During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdowns
June Jordaan
The Urban Photographic Portrait: Projects and Paradigms
Robert Silberman
The Visual as Narrative Practice: Using Images to Construct Counter-Narratives of Architecture and the City Across the Indo-Pacific
Endriana Audisho and Christina Deluchi
Part 2: Situating Spatial Practices
Harvesting Trauma: Space in Moving Image Media, Winnipeg, Canada
Lawrence Bird
Essaying Material and Spatial Cultures: Film as a Source and Medium for Exploring Design and Urban Histories
Juthamas Tangsantikul and Nigel Power
Architecture and Cinema in Early Brasilia: Fiction Movies as Archives of Affection
André Costa and Liz Sandoval
Tracing the Familiar: Spatial Research Through Essayistic Filmmaking
Mert Zafer Kara, Büsra Balaban, and Bihter Almaç
Part 3: Crossing Spatial Thresholds
Vacant Urb-Scape Photographs of Pandemic Lockdown London as Impetus for Subjective Psychodynamic Transformation
L. J. Theo
Liminal Space: Non-Place and Spatio-Temporal Knowing in Passageways, Piers, and Tunnels
Catherine Ross
Unveiling Madrid’s Visual Imagery: An Ongoing Attempt
David Escudero
Lilium: A Post-Digital Cine-Mural
Peter Thiedeke, John R. Ferguson, and Andrew R. Brown
Index