Exploring lived space of new build urban environment through photovoice interview

Autor(en)
Sandra Guinand, Anahi Montalvo Rojo, Mark Scherner
Abstrakt

Contemporary urban design practices and new build redevelopment projects are strongly influenced by economic, social and cultural practices, as well as by new forms of management. These different parameters play on the quality production of open spaces. Investigating the place study of Donau City, a mixed-use neighbourhood located in Vienna (Austria), we look at the relations between the new build environment and the daily users. We aim at analysing the intrinsic qualities of this specific urban environment by understanding how residents and users perceive and decode it (emic perspective) and how they make sense of everyday practiced and lived space. In order to do so, we followed a citizen science approach, using photovoice interview with thirteen residents and workers. Commenting the photographs they took on a one-day walk, the users revealed their daily life of their surrounding through design and planning elements associated with personal stories. We analyzed the corpus via inductive coding which helped us conceptualize the users’ lived space (Lefebvre, 2000), perceptions and interactions. Discussing the results, we contribute to a deeper understanding of the role forms, functions and scales play on open spaces’ quality in new build redevelopment projects by bringing in a bottom-up and sensitive approach. We show that social and spatial fragmentation could be mitigated by paying more attention to the emic perceptions and intangible values in spatial conception.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Geographie und Regionalforschung
Externe Organisation(en)
Université Paris IV - Paris-Sorbonne
Journal
CIDADES: Comunidades e Territórios
Seiten
156-184
Anzahl der Seiten
29
DOI
https://doi.org/10.15847/cct.23864
Publikationsdatum
09-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
507019 Stadtentwicklungsplanung, 507005 Kulturgeographie, 507011 Raumforschung
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Urban Studies
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/96c612cb-10d8-46ed-8eec-8e07fd44b1f9