IHM-agining sustainability: Urban imaginaries in spaces of possibility
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The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries. ed. / Christoph Lindner; Miriam Meissner. London: Taylor and Francis Inc., 2018. p. 76-89.
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TY - CHAP
T1 - IHM-agining sustainability
T2 - Urban imaginaries in spaces of possibility
AU - Kagan, Sacha
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Urban “spaces of possibility” for sustainable urban development are constituted to a significant extent by the spaces opened up for imaginative processes, enriching urban imaginaries with potentially radical imagination and pointing towards possibilities for urban transformation. Spaces of possibility are both spaces of imagination and spaces of experimentation, and the integration of imaginative and experimental experiential processes enhances their relevance for potential urban transformations. This chapter focuses on the relationships between (physical, social, and mental) spaces fostering sustainability-related imagination and the unfolding imaginaries of sustainability in such spaces. It is based on the empirical investigation of the development of imagination and imaginaries across five grassroots initiatives/projects/networks in the city of Hanover, Germany (in the Linden district, alongside the Ihme River). The empirical research insights reveal how these imaginaries are both emplaced and place-making, how they facilitate cooperation in urban society through balancing dialogical and dialectic communication processes, and how experimentation and imagination are mutually constitutive in such spaces. These insights strongly suggest that urban imaginaries, when researched in relation to urban spaces of possibility and to (changes in) social institutions, should become a central concern in research into sustainable urban development.
AB - Urban “spaces of possibility” for sustainable urban development are constituted to a significant extent by the spaces opened up for imaginative processes, enriching urban imaginaries with potentially radical imagination and pointing towards possibilities for urban transformation. Spaces of possibility are both spaces of imagination and spaces of experimentation, and the integration of imaginative and experimental experiential processes enhances their relevance for potential urban transformations. This chapter focuses on the relationships between (physical, social, and mental) spaces fostering sustainability-related imagination and the unfolding imaginaries of sustainability in such spaces. It is based on the empirical investigation of the development of imagination and imaginaries across five grassroots initiatives/projects/networks in the city of Hanover, Germany (in the Linden district, alongside the Ihme River). The empirical research insights reveal how these imaginaries are both emplaced and place-making, how they facilitate cooperation in urban society through balancing dialogical and dialectic communication processes, and how experimentation and imagination are mutually constitutive in such spaces. These insights strongly suggest that urban imaginaries, when researched in relation to urban spaces of possibility and to (changes in) social institutions, should become a central concern in research into sustainable urban development.
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85059550093&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315163956
DO - 10.4324/9781315163956
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
AN - SCOPUS:85059550093
SN - 9781138058880
SP - 76
EP - 89
BT - The Routledge Companion to Urban Imaginaries
A2 - Lindner, Christoph
A2 - Meissner, Miriam
PB - Taylor and Francis Inc.
CY - London
ER -