Architecture, Festival and the City
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 252715
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138362345
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This return includes two elements: a co-authored introductory chapter and a single-authored chapter. These are part of the volume ‘Architecture, Festival and the City’ published by Routledge in 2018. The book came out of the AHRA conference on the topic in 2017 in Birmingham, where Lucas was the keynote speaker. Lucas has also presented the work at invited talks and conferences in Tokyo, Seoul, Zürich and Cologne. The introduction is co-authored by Lucas, Frost and Browne, and establishes an agenda for the study of festivals in architecture. The editorial role on the book’s chapters were split evenly between the editors. This book has a broad historical and geographical context, reflected by the structure of the book itself. Architecture’s relationship with festivity is a long one, but one under-represented by the literature. More generally, there is a distinctive cross-disciplinary field of Event Studies becoming established, and architecture needs, as a discipline, to be part of this discussion. Lucas’ own contribution reads the Sanja Matsuri festival in Tokyo through a number of theoretical lenses, primarily the work of Nelson Goodman on scripts and scores, and using the methods of Laban movement notation to analyse the embodied nature of festival participants’ engagements with the city. The main feature of the festival is a parade of Mikoshi: temporary shrines modelled after Shinto religious architecture. These heavy lacquered and gilded timber structures are boisterously carried around the city; sometimes in predetermined routes and sometimes at the whims of the kami installed in them. The chapter presents a counter-narrative to the conventional understandings of Tokyo, and establishes an agenda for further work on festival architecture, leading to a Daiwa Foundation small grant for travel, and assisting the development of my next monograph to include a range of other Japanese festivals.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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