Architecure, Festival and the City
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London Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 22.32
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 1138362344
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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4 - The Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE)
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Architecture, Festival and the City comprises developed papers from the 14th Annual AHRA Conference held in 2017. The chapters were double blind reviewed prior to the selection of the final 15. The introduction was then written collectively by the three editors as a way of framing the whole publication as a single piece of research.
This book looks at the multi-layered nature of festivals and the way they incorporate both orderly (authoritative) and disorderly (subversive) components. The aim is to reveal how the civic nature of urban space is utilised through festival to represent ideas of belonging and identity. Recent political and social gatherings also raise questions about the relationship of festival to ‘ritual’ and whether traditional practices can serve as meaningful references in the twenty-first century.
In this context my authored chapter discusses the emergence, evolution, and persistence of the Calcio Storico football match in Florence in relation to festive order, its historic architectural setting and its ability to reveal the conflict, violence and disorder that exists at the heart of democratic institutions. The book as a whole argues that a better understanding of such events, where individual identity is often subsumed into the identity of the festival offers a platform for unity rather than division within the contemporary city.
By linking studies of historical festivals to contemporary events through a section that discusses various festivals that have persisted over an extended period of time, the combined picture of festival drawn by the various chapters suggests that knowledge of any particular event is not necessarily the ground for identity or belonging.
Understanding festivals in this way could contribute to a move away from viewing festivals as exclusive events and recast architecture as a setting rather than a form, encouraging the creation of more festivals in the city.
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