The Future of Public Space: SOM Thinkers Series

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Routine discussions on public space generally overlook a gamut of possibilities ripe for critical discussion.

This book, the up to date within the SOM Thinkers series, aims to address these questions. Here, Rachel Monroe challenges American preconceptions of the wild, wide-open West by addressing issues of surveillance; the series’ first fictional piece, by China Miéville, covers an under-examined area of public space under the guise of detective fiction; a study of public art by Ben Davis sheds light at the myths and stigmas that have accrued to public art, also asking what it might turn into; Christopher DeWolf shares a sensory navigation shuttle through a directionless Hong Kong; Michelle Nijhuis writes at the shifting ecologies of national parks; Sarah Fecht explores architecture and social life beyond Earth; whilst Jaron Lanier meditates at the idea of public space online, linking the prevailing, free-for-all model of the web with a characteristically American yearning for freedom and repudiation of rules and structure. Also included are examples of public art works by Lawrence Weiner.

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