{"id":1879,"date":"2014-06-26T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2015-03-15T21:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T21:40:08","slug":"naomi-gibson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unit-21.com\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE PERFORMING GROUND OF FRAGMENTED IDENTITY\u00a0|\u00a0Copenhagen, Denmark\u00a0| Unit 21 | 2014<\/p>\n

Awarded Distinction for\u00a0Thesis<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Click to see Thesis<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fragmented Perception of Cityscapes<\/b><\/p>\n

The year began with an interest in how city streetscapes are perceived in a fragmented fashion and provide the viewing pedestrian with a shifting sense of place. The first drawing studies analyse how we ‘see’ a streetscape, our eyes darting between points of focus, drawn to these points for their meaning, salience or movement. From these external world triggers, we construct an internal world perception of a place, relating to personal or collective memory, our internal world therefore\u00a0moving and changing rapidly.<\/p>\n

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The Performing Ground of Fragmented Identity<\/b><\/p>\n

Once in Copenhagen, attention moved to the causes of these shifting internal geographies, looking at the relationship between permanent and transient architecture and the socio-political conflicts and tensions within the\u00a0district of N\u00f8rrebro,\u00a0located north-west of Copenhagen\u2019s city centre. It can be considered as a site for socio-political diversity, associated with young people and migrants. Conversely, Copenhagen has a general perception\u00a0of being culturally homogenous and egalitarian. It is this tension that the building programme seeks to overcome, providing space for and celebrating heterogeneity.<\/p>\n

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The Performing-Ground of Fragmented Identity is an original proposition. This\u00a0space is for people to explore their personal identities, collective memories, and\u00a0to interact with \u2018other\u2019. It addresses N\u00f8rrebro\u2019s current conflicts of identity\u00a0and culture through different performative meeting types, from the adversarial to the co-operative. Here, locals can encounter and challenge other cultures, turning the destructive tensions of the street into a productive socio-political act.\u00a0Through the performance of social dynamics plus the architectural recognition of local cultural diversity, the Performing-Ground seeks to be inclusive, giving local residents a sense of civic belonging.\u00a0 Conceptually, performance is a transformational act \u2013 both a maker and symbol of transformation. Through experiential modes, it both creates meaning and change within the performance microcosm and within the wider world.<\/p>\n

The Performing-Ground sits at the junction between Jagtvej 69, N\u00f8rrebrogade and Assistens Cemetery. The Ground utilises both the Jagtvej 69 site and a deconsecrated north corner of the Cemetery. Choosing sites of spatial injustice is a way of ensuring a socio-political connectedness to place. \u00a0Jagtvej 69, or the Ungdomshuset, was demolished in an act of iconoclasm, having once been a local symbol for alternative ideologies – a place of meaning for women, left-wing groups and youth subcultures. The site currently stands empty, giving little indication to outsiders of its former function, and local groups unable to agree on how the site should be used in the future. Conversely, the cemetery is a place of peace, where many of Copenhagen’s significant\u00a0individuals are interred, and where Copenhagen’s residents come for leisure, these days for cycling, resting and wandering the leafy paths, and historically as a site for picnics, an act subsequently banned.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0siting the Performing-Ground at the heart of local memory and identity, it holds the symbolic capacity to express local socio- political issues, becoming a site of relevance to residents.\u00a0The Performing-Ground re-addresses the permanent\/transient relationship of N\u00f8rrebro, particularly N\u00f8rrebrogade.\u00a0Instead of a dominant\/subservient or shell\/occupation dynamic, both states are represented as equal\u00a0and symbiotic, sharing different scales and roles. Permanence begins, initially\u00a0as a framework, platform or \u2018ground\u2019, and transience completes and defines.\u00a0Also, through considering the theatrical representation of building typologies, it was possible to consider types in terms of performative and evocative necessity, breaking away from typical ideas of form and space.<\/p>\n

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THE PERFORMING GROUND OF FRAGMENTED IDENTITY\u00a0|\u00a0Copenhagen, Denmark\u00a0| Unit 21 | 2014 Awarded Distinction for\u00a0Thesis Click to see Thesis     Fragmented Perception of Cityscapes The year began with an interest in how city streetscapes are perceived in a fragmented fashion and provide the viewing pedestrian with a shifting sense of place. The first drawing studies analyse how we ‘see’ a streetscape, our eyes darting between points of focus, drawn to<\/p>\n

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